Romantic

Question 1

A very important musical part of every middle-class home during the romantic period was the __.

Accepted Answer

piano

Question 2

The composer who had an overwhelming influence on the young Wagner was _____.

Accepted Answer

Ludwig van Beethoven

Question 3

Giacomo Puccini's opera La Boheme takes place in _____.

Accepted Answer

Rome

Question 4

Giuseppe Verdi mainly composed his operas ____.

Accepted Answer

to entertain a mass public

Question 5

The German composers of art songs favored, among others, the lyrical poetry of _____.

Accepted Answer

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Question 6

Which of the following is not a characteristic of romanticism?

Accepted Answer

an emphasis on balance and clarity of structures

Question 7

A composer who earned his/her living as a violin virtuoso was _____.

Accepted Answer

Niccolo Paganini

Question 8

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky _____.

Accepted Answer

began to study music theory at the age of 21

Question 9

A short musical idea associated with a person, object or thought, used by Wagner is called ____

Accepted Answer

leitmotif

Question 10

The 4th movement of Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony depicts a _____.

Accepted Answer

march to the scaffold

Question 11

The librettos to The Ring of Nibelung were written by _____.

Accepted Answer

Richard Wagner

Question 12

What is program music?

Accepted Answer

Instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, etc.

Question 13

The soul of a Verdi opera is _____.

Accepted Answer

expressive vocal melody

Question 14

Antonin Dvorak's music was first promoted by _____.

Accepted Answer

Johannes Brahms

Question 15

Of all the inspirations for romantic art, none was more important than ____.

Accepted Answer

nature

Question 16

Wagner was a virtuoso on the _____.

Accepted Answer

none of the above

Question 17

The Erlkonig, in Schubert's song of that name, is a romantic personification of ____.

Accepted Answer

death

Question 18

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

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Question 19

Clara Schumann was a _____.

Accepted Answer

all of the above

Question 20

The composer whose career was a model for many romantic composers was _____.

Accepted Answer

Ludwig van Beethoven

Question 21

The contrasting episodes of Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony are unified by the recurrence of the _

Accepted Answer

idee fixe theme

Question 22

Chopin expressed his love for Poland by composing mazurkas and the polonaises, stylized dances

Accepted Answer

capture a Polish spirit

Question 23

Mendelssohn is known as the man who rekindled an interest in the music of _____.

Accepted Answer

Johann Sebastian Bach

Question 24

Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto was inspired by _____.

Accepted Answer

his friendship with the famous violinist, Ferdinand David

Question 25

_____ was a fanatical supporter of Wagner and helped rescue his career in the 1860s.

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King Ludwig of Bavaria

Question 26

The Fantastic Symphony reflects Berlioz's _____.

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love for the actress Harriet Smithson

Question 27

Mendelssohn's musical works are reminiscent of which musical period?

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Baroque

Question 28

A _____ is an instrumental composition in several movements based on a literary/pictorial idea.

Accepted Answer

program symphony

Question 29

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

Accepted Answer

operas

Question 30

By the age of 13, Mendelssohn had written _____ of astounding quality.

Accepted Answer

all of the above

Question 31

Smetana composed a work about Bohemia's main river. The name of the river and composition is __

Accepted Answer

the Moldau

Question 32

Until the age of thirty-six, Franz Liszt toured Europe as a virtuoso _____.

Accepted Answer

pianist

Question 33

An artistic trend, in which operas dealt with ordinary people and true situations, was known as

Accepted Answer

verismo

Question 34

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

Accepted Answer

100

Question 35

Liszt created _____, a one-movement orchestral composition based on a literary/pictorial idea

Accepted Answer

the symphonic poem

Question 36

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

Accepted Answer

lied

Question 37

Mendelssohn's Concerto for Violin in E Minor opens with a(n) ____.

Accepted Answer

soloist, who presents the main theme

Question 38

Instrumental music associated with a story, poem, etc. during the romantic period, is called __

Accepted Answer

program music

Question 39

The writer whose works had the greatest impact on the young Berlioz was _____.

Accepted Answer

William Shakespeare

Question 40

A slow, lyrical, intimate composition for piano, associated with evening and nighttime, is the

Accepted Answer

nocturne

Question 41

Non-program music is also known as _____ music.

Accepted Answer

absolute

Question 42

Nadezhda von Meck was _____.

Accepted Answer

a wealthy benefactress who provided Tchaikovsky w/an annuity

Question 43

Antonin Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 ____.

Accepted Answer

all of the above

Question 44

The founder of Czech national music was _____.

Accepted Answer

Bedrich Smetana

Question 45

Today's movie scores may be regarded as examples of _____.

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incidental music

Question 46

Dvorak "found a secure basis for a new national [American] music school" in

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African American spirituals

Question 47

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

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nationalism

Question 48

Drawing creative inspiration from cultures of lands foreign to the composer is known as _____.

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exoticism

Question 49

A study piece, designed to help a performer master specific technical difficulties, is known as

Accepted Answer

an etude

Question 50

Brahms's works, though very personal in style, are rooted in the music of _____.

Accepted Answer

all of the above

Question 51

Music performed before or during a play to set the mood for scenes or dramatic action is

Accepted Answer

incidental music

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