MUS 101 final review

Which musical form, often used in art songs, repeats the same music for each stanza of the poem?

Which of the following statements is NOT true of the piano in the early romantic period?

A(n) ______ is a motive or phrase that is repeated persistently at the same pitch throughout a section.

The deliberate intent to draw creative inspiration from the composer's own homeland is known as ______.

What was an achievement of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel that was rare for women during her time?

Romanticism, as a stylistic period in Western music, encompassed which years?

In Puccini's La Bohème, Rodolfo is a young ______.

In twelve-tone music, what term is used to describe a given order of twelve chromatic tones?

What characteristic is NOT usually associated with impressionism?

Impressionism in music is characterized by what features?

Which Gershwin song became a tremendous hit in 1920?

Who was one of the most important teachers of musical composition in the twentieth century?

Who was the most influential urban folk musician of the 1960s?

Impressionist painters were primarily concerned with the effect of light, color, and ______.

What technique, used by Liszt, features a single musical idea that recurs throughout a work but is varied so that its

When did bebop develop?

Composer Astor Piazzolla fused classical music and jazz with the ______.

A slight holding back or pressing forward of tempo in music is known as ______.

Duke Ellington was an important figure in ______.

Why were critics often scandalized by Verdi's operas?

Brahms met which composer(s) during his first musical tour?

Which romantic composer earned his living as a touring virtuoso?

What instrumental family was emphasized much more heavily in the twentieth-century than it had been in the past?

Eric Whitacre's choral music often does what?

What was one of the biggest changes in Western music in the twentieth century?

What subgenre of rock, in the 1980s, is characterized by drums, amplified bass, and guitars played at peak volume?

What is the term for instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene?

What is the backbone of a jazz ensemble?

Of all the inspirations for romantic art, none was more important than what subject?

When did ragtime flourish in the United States?

How can William Grant Still's music career be described?

Music intended to be performed before and during a play to set the mood is known as ______ music.

What is the combination of two traditional chords sounding together called?

What genre, created by Liszt, features a one-movement orchestral composition based on a literary or pictorial idea?

Select one the genre in which Leonard Bernstein composed music.

Drawing creative inspiration from cultures of lands foreign to the composer is called ______.

Which composer's career, built on freelance commissions and publishing income, was a model for many romantic composers?

Who was the founder of Czech national music?

The mood of an art song is set by a brief piano introduction and summed up at the end by a piano section called a ______

What characteristic of Giacomo Puccini's operas is in stark contrast to those of Richard Wagner?

The ______ is a dance in triple meter that originated as a stately processional for the Polish nobility.

What is a characteristic of most of Chopin's pieces?

Which of the following illustrates the use of leitmotif in a film?

________ began as a kind of rhythmically accented poetic recitation accompanied by a DJ using two turntables

Giacomo Puccini's opera La Bohème takes place in ______.

Who wrote the lyrics for West Side Story?

The famous aria La donna è mobile is from which Verdi opera?

Which twentieth-century composer was also a leading scholar of the folk music of his native land?

What style is a type of soul music that blended rhythm and blues with popular music?

Schoenberg developed an unusual style of vocal performance, halfway between speaking and singing, called ______.

Appalachian Spring originated as what type of work?

Who was the main audience for whom Giuseppe Verdi composed his operas?

Expressionism as an artistic movement was largely centered where?

Porgy and Bess is considered what type of work?

Where did George Gershwin grow up?

What is a characteristic of Liszt's piano works?

How were William Grant Still's works, such as his Afro-American Symphony of 1931, received?

Schubert was eighteen years old when he composed the song Erlkönig, set to a poem by which writer?

Nonprogram music is also known as ______ music.

The word ______ is commonly used for a romantic art song with a German text.

Which composer was one of the few fortunate enough to be supported by private patrons?

Which composer best exemplifies the movement in opera known as verismo?

What term is used for the pattern when a voice or instrument(s) is answered by another voice or instrument(s)?

The use of two or more contrasting and independent rhythms at the same time is known as ______.

What element of ragtime was a strong influence in the development of jazz?

A new respectability for jazz was symbolized in 1938 when Benny Goodman gave an historic concert at which venue?

Nationalism in music is often reflected through what feature?

What is a feature of ragtime?

How can funk music be described?

Which other composer was a close friend to Robert and Clara Schumann?

The rhythm section of a swing band normally consisted of which instruments?

What instrument was a very important musical part of every middle-class home during the romantic period?

Verdi studied music in _________, the city where Italy's most important opera house, La Scala, is located.

What statement about free jazz is accurate?

What is one musical genre in which Mendelssohn did NOT compose?

When did Charles Ives's compositions begin to achieve recognition?

Who wrote the 1844 Treatise on Modern Instrumentation and Orchestration?

The Habañera and the Toreador Song are two famous arias from which opera?

What type of piece is a slow, lyrical, intimate composition for piano, associated with evening and nighttime?

Which well-known conductor of the New York Philharmonic also composed the landmark music, West Side Story?

What biographical fact about Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky is true?

The most famous riot in music history occurred in Paris in 1913 at the first performance of which work?

What opera, filled with strong political overtones, was Verdi's first great success?

An art song is a musical composition for what performing forces?

The technique of using two or more tonal centers at the same time is called ______.

Who was an important impressionist composer?

What is characteristic of rock songs?

Who was the first woman to win the prestigious Rome Prize in composition in 1913?

Which of the following composers is NOT associated with the romantic period?

prolific composer, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel wrote over ______ works.

Which of the following composers did NOT work in the early years of the twentieth century?

The expressionist movement in music and art flourished between which years?

Brahms wrote masterpieces in many musical forms, but never any ______.

What romantic technique involves altering the character of a melody through changes in dynamics, orchestration, rhythm?

The German composers of art songs favored, among others, the lyric poetry of which writer?

Chopin expressed his love of Poland by composing polonaises and ______.

How did Charles Ives make a living?

A concert overture has how many movements?

Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue opens with which instrument?

What oratorio by Mendelssohn marked the high point of his career when it was rapturously received in England in 1846?

What feature is NOT a characteristic of romanticism?

Which romantic composer was NOT also a virtuoso instrumentalist?

What statement about Schubert is NOT true?

What was an artistic trend of the 1890s, in which operas dealt with ordinary people and true-to-life situations?

Schubert's songs number more than ______.

What was Clara Wieck Schumann mainly known for during her lifetime?

Which composer championed Antonin Dvořák's music to his own publisher, helping to catapult Dvořák to international fame?

What term is used to describe the absence of key or tonality in a musical composition?

Where did Dvořák find "a secure basis for a new national [American] musical school?"

Mendelssohn is known as the man who rekindled an interest in the music of which earlier composer?

Which composer is best known for ragtime?

The Erlking, in Schubert's song of that name, is a romantic personification of _______.

Select one of the films for which John Williams composed the scores.

An orchestra toward the end of the romantic period might include close to ______ musicians.

What is the typical instrumentation of a rock group?

What story element is depicted through the piano's relentless rhythm in Erlkönig ( The Erlking)?

Which of these styles is NOT an immediate source of jazz?

In 1892, Dvořák went to which city, where he spent almost three years as director of the National Conservatory of Music.

The idea of musical themes for characters (leitmotifs) was developed by which nineteenth-century composer?

Blues music is usually written in ________ time.

Impressionist painting and symbolist poetry as artistic movements originated in ______.

Twentieth-century musical expressionism grew out of the emotional turbulence of late romantics such as ______.

Schubert's The Erlking is in what form?

Which jazz element is NOT derived from West African traditions?

Schubert wrote compositions in every musical genre except which one?

_______ a rapid slide up or down a scale.

What is one of Puccini's operas that features exoticism, through his use of elements derived from Japanese and Chinese

Which of the following is NOT a source of the American musical?

Which of the following statements is NOT true of the romantic art song?