Romantic - Today

This modern musical form is repetitive, due to the fact that the purpose it serves doesn't have a time limit.

Brooklyn born composer, Copland, wrote most of his music based on...

He became the first American-born conductor and musical director of the New York Philharmonic.

This opera was the first to be performed on national television written by a black man.

Tchaikovsky's final symphony is titled...

In music and literature, a recurring theme or character trait that serves as the structural foundation of a work.

Symphonie Fantastique is pure _____ music, due to the descriptive nature of the music.

Bernstein often liked to meld the classical style with which genre?

The March of the Scaffold is the ____ movement of Symphonie Fantastique.

This composer believed that his goal as an opera composer was not to create opera as it had been known in the past.

This Russian composer's music was more influenced by Western music than by Russian folk music.

This era of composers shared in their desire to express their emotions and feelings in less restrictive ways.

Dvorak's "New World Symphony" was based on the music of...

Simple recurring themes which each represented a character, place, or mood.

Most of this composer's works were joyous and based almost entirely on historical or legendary subjects.

Who took over 20 years to compose his first symphony?

Bernstein became the first composer to...

French composer Debussy was inspired by...

Who aided and inspired Tchaikovsky to write most of his famous and successful work?

This Bohemian born composer/conductor wrote 9 symphonies, similar to that of Beethoven.

What is a more modern day version of the opera?

Rimsky-Korsakov's work, Scheherazade, was a four movement program symphony based on the tales...

This composer's works reflected Beethoven's compositional ability.

This was the first black composer to have major classical music success in America.

Stravinsky's most famous work, a ballet about a primitive ritual celebrating the advent spring.

In Symphonie Fantastique, during the March of the Scaffold, which instrument plays the idee fixe?

What composer helped Dvorak to become published?

What term refers to the technique of interpreting how the scene feels rather than how it actually looks or sounds?

Clara Schumann was first woman to have a successful career as a...

This is the term given to the group of Russian Nationalist Composers.

Liszt gave concerts to create aid for victims of...

This composer had the unique ability to improvise a composition based on a melody that someone would simply make up.

Similar to the secular music of the Renaissance, today's composers write mainly for...

This composer wrote "Pictures at an Exhibition" after being inspired by the artwork during his visit to The Louvre.

Leonard Bernstein often liked to incorporate music that would excite...

This composer collected wax-cylinder phonograph recordings of old English folk songs.