Quiz 14

Question 1

Among Lied composers, who was the first important successor to Schubert?

Accepted Answer

Schumann

Question 2

In his Lieder, how did Schumann treat the piano and voice?

Accepted Answer

as equal partners, piano had a long prelude before the entrance of voice

Question 3

What happened to Clara Schumann's music after her death?

Accepted Answer

her works became known after interest in female composers arose, her works disappeared for more than 100 years

Question 4

What two oratorios by Mendelssohn have become standards of the choral repertoire?

Accepted Answer

Saint Paul and Elijah

Question 5

Who was Felix Mendelssohn?

Accepted Answer

at 20, conducted Bach's "Saint Matthew's Passion", sparking a Bach revival, one of most prominent composers of his generation

Question 6

Why do Mendelssohn's works sound more Classical in style than Berlioz's music?

Accepted Answer

command of counterpoint and fugue, his works exhibit a mastery of sonata & concerto form of Mozart & Beethoven

Question 7

Schumann was the master of what form?

Accepted Answer

piano & song, miniature form

Question 8

What Romantic traits did Mendelssohn combine w/Classic forms & Baroque learned style that helped to determine his style?

Accepted Answer

colorful orchestration and frequent use of pictorial depiction

Question 9

What is a character piece?

Accepted Answer

descriptive works that depict mood, personality or scene, title indicates the mood, personality, and scene

Question 10

Who were the models for Schumann's symphonies?

Accepted Answer

Beethoven, Schubert, Mendolssohn

Question 11

What is strikingly different about Mendelssohn's violin concerto from usual Classic concerto?

Accepted Answer

solo states the theme at the outset, skips orchestral exposition, cadenza before recapitulation

Question 12

What is a musical cypher?

Accepted Answer

a cypher using music, representing names with notes

Question 13

What are the bulk of Schumann's piano pieces?

Accepted Answer

short character pieces

Question 14

What did Schumann espouse regarding string quartets?

Accepted Answer

a four-way conversation where parts are equal

Question 15

Who was Clara Schumann?

Accepted Answer

foremost pianist of her day & distinguished composer and teacher, Robert's wife, child prodigy; toured at age of 9

Question 16

What was it that Beethoven conferred on the symphony and what effect did have on later composers?

Accepted Answer

a prestigious status; became a rite of passage to full recognition

Question 17

What was Robert Schumann's approach to writing specific genres of music?

Accepted Answer

focused on one genre at a time, went through all major genres of the time

Question 18

What was Clara Schumann's approach to song setting?

Accepted Answer

making piano & voice equal partners in conveying images of poem's feelings, capturing each poem's mood in long preludes and postludes;, maintaining a particular figuration throughout

Question 19

What is a Romantic period choral festival?

Accepted Answer

events where lare amateur Romantic choruses from many regions performed, centered on Handel's oratorios, events modeled after those in England, a fun time

Question 20

What are the two other names Schumann identified himself and applied to a couple of character pieces within Carnaval?

Accepted Answer

Florestan and Eusebius

Question 21

How were Mendelssohn's concertos unlike the show pieces composed by most virtuosi of the time?

Accepted Answer

emphasized musical content

Question 22

Who was Robert Schumann?

Accepted Answer

composed piano music, songs, chamber music, and symphonies, injured hand and became a critic and met composers, influential music critic & outstanding composer

Question 23

Which of Mendelssohn's masterpieces was written when he was 17, yet set a concert overture standard?

Accepted Answer

A Midsummer Night's Dream

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