Exam 3 Review 346 Fall 2024

   Rossini’s Una voce poco fa and Bellini’s Casta Diva both

The Russian Mighty Five were inspired by Russian folk music and musically progressive composers like Liszt and Berlioz.

Brahms moves from C minor to C Major in his 1st symphony, emulating the tonal trajectory of whose 5th Symphony?

The most influential nineteenth-century treatise on orchestration was written in the early 1840s by

The term New German School refers to

This composer is associated with bel canto opera

   In Les Huguenots, historical events are connoted by

The aesthetic differences between the New German School and the adherents of absolute music lay in their different

The so-called Mighty Five Russian composers included all the following EXCEPT

The contrasting slow and fast sections in a Rossini opera aria, which typically showcase contrasting moods:

Operatic genre that emphasized romantic love & historical conflicts, & added ballet, elaborate staging, and large casts

Strauss’s tone poems were heavily influenced by

Over the course of the nineteenth century, the average size of what increased by approximately 125 percent?

By the 1830s, opera in Italy and France had become an elite, exclusive genre, divorced from the market for popular music

This composer is associated with the Singspiel

Simultaneous use of duple and triple divisions of the beat is a hallmark of the composer ________.

   Rossini spent his last four decades in Paris mainly

Brahms first established himself as a promising young musician in the early 1850s with the premiere of his 1st symphony.

The main function of the tempo di mezzo in a typical Rossinian opera scene is to

Many of Wagner’s and Verdi’s stage works were overtly or implicitly linked to contemporary political crises and issues.

As Verdi’s career progressed, his operas treated Rossinian bel canto conventions with greater freedom.

Several compositions by the Mighty Five were subsequently completed and/or orchestrated by

A musical scale comprised of alternating whole and half steps is called a(n) ________.

Early 19th C. operas were the source of much popular music, w/selections propagated as piano transcriptions and parodies

Verdi’s early operas were modeled largely on

Musical theatrical genre that emerged in the US in the 1830s featuring white performers caricaturing African Americans

Nationalism was a powerful force in opera, but it had little impact on the genres of chamber and orchestral music.

   The composer most responsible for establishing the conventions of grand opera was

In the first half of the 19th C., nationalism in Italy and Germany emerged differently than in France mainly because

Late-19th-C. composers like Bruckner continued to exploit the 3-key exposition strategy first systematically used by

Wagner’s influence on his contemporaries and successors was felt in all the following areas EXCEPT

Operatic style of early 19th C. that emphasized fluent vocal technique, beauty of tone, & singing lyrical & florid lines

The fourth movement of Brahms’s Fourth Symphony testifies to the composer’s interest in

An expressive setting of a strophic, lyric poem sung a cappella by a small choir is called a(n) _______________________.

In Tristan und Isolde, the central ideas of longing and desire are most directly conveyed by

Wagner’s notion of an ideal drama based on the integration of poetry, scenic design, staging, movement, and music

Late-19th-C composers like Bruckner continued to exploit the three-key exposition strategy first systematically used by

A canon of composers and masterpieces in the nineteenth century emerged due to

The composer whose legacy most broadly influenced musical developments during the nineteenth century was

The notation related to solmization syllables and used in collections such as The Southern Harmony is called __________. 

The proponents of the New German School and those of absolute music both believed that

Composer strongly associated w/French Grand Opera.

The most divisive conflict among musicians and composers in the 2nd half of the 19th C. was that between adherents of

   As opposed to reminiscence motives, Wagnerian leitmotivs

In Wagner’s view of music history, the most important precedent for his own synthesis of drama and music was

This composer is associated with minstrel songs and parlor songs.

The career of Hans von Bülow demonstrates how a 19th-C. musician could help promote two opposing, even hostile styles.

18th and early 19th-C. classics in European concert repertoire became more prominent during the 19th century because

Choral societies served all of the following functions in musical and social life in the early 19th century EXCEPT

The evocation of non-Western lands and cultures through citations or imitations of their musical styles and sonorities

The concluding, rhythmically lively, virtuosically florid aria section of a Rossini opera scene is called the ________.

The plot of La traviata is a good example of mid-nineteenth-century

Wagner’s leitmotive technique had virtually no impact on 20^th century film and television composers.

Musorgsky’s harmonic progressions of triads related by 3rds demonstrates his familiarity with the harmonic language of

  In the 1820s and 1830s, Mendelssohn played a pivotal role in reviving the vocal music of

At the opening of the prelude to Tristan und Isolde, the Tristan chord functions as an altered Neapolitan harmony.