Unit 6 Romantic Period and 20th Century Music Test Review

Edgard Varèse created one of the first pieces of which type of music?

Dvorak took inspiration from Native American music and African American spirituals

Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen takes 18 hours to perform completely and comprises how many operas?

Which term is used for a person who leads an orchestra?

Who wrote the play on which Tchaikovsky based his concert overture Romeo and Juliet?

Igor Stravinsky composed in the following styles: Classical, Baroque, Nationalistic

Which style of music incorporates native folk songs, stories, and history?

Although Russian, Tchaikovsky was not a member of the Russian Five.

Hector Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique is an example of an Opera

What did composers during the Romantic period use music to express?

Tone clusters contain tones that are a half step or whole step apart

Which famous American composer was known as “The March King” for his marches that inspire patriotism?

The piano usually accompanies a voice in art songs

Who wrote “The Star-Spangled Banner”?

What group of composers brought Russian music to the international music scene?

Which conductor composed the music for the West Side Story?

Why is Tchaikovsky not considered part of the Russian Five?

Which composer believed in the absolute oneness of music and drama in what he called Gesamtkunstwerk?

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Which term describes music with no tonal center?

Which form is not a type of program music?

How many times can a specific pitch appear in a 12 tone row?