Music History 122 Final Review

Question 1

Brahms was able to compose how many symphonies, all with their own distinctive stamp?

Accepted Answer

4

Question 2

Which composer only composed for 3 months and conducted and orchestra for 9 months of the year?

Accepted Answer

Gustav Mahler

Question 3

Which composer developed an opera house that placed the orchestra in a pit beneath the stage?

Accepted Answer

Wagner

Question 4

Stephen Foster is associated with pre-Civil War South because of his contribution to the genre:

Accepted Answer

Minstrel song

Question 5

Which opera is Rossini's most famous?

Accepted Answer

Barber of Seville

Question 6

This was not a style in its own right, but rather an attitude that was used in the 20th century

Accepted Answer

Modernism

Question 7

Which famous American compared this battle over operatic styles to a debate among flies?

Accepted Answer

Benjamin Franklin

Question 8

What person served as the 18th century equivalent of an ipod?

Accepted Answer

Ballad Singer

Question 9

Which symphony did Czech composer Antonin Dvorak write while in America?

Accepted Answer

Both answers above

Question 10

A new 19th c. genre associated with the piano, it is the instrumental counterpart to the song:

Accepted Answer

Character Piece

Question 11

A 20th c. technique that blurred the lines of distinct harmonies, rhythms, and forms:

Accepted Answer

Impressionism

Question 12

During the 19th century, which is NOT one of the reasons credited for the growth in music?

Accepted Answer

Development of Opera

Question 13

Romanticism was closely related to the philosophical outlook known as:

Accepted Answer

Idealism

Question 14

Who was the first American born composer to achieve international fame?

Accepted Answer

William Billings

Question 15

Which mid-20th c. invention helped offer a key to understanding transforming attitudes in music

Accepted Answer

Television

Question 16

A new form of musical theater that operated on a smaller scale & was humorous or lighthearted:

Accepted Answer

Operetta

Question 17

Songs were financially lucrative for what two professions?

Accepted Answer

Composers and Publishers

Question 18

Who founded the Muzak Corporation in 1922?

Accepted Answer

George Owen Squier

Question 19

Of all the genres Mozart composed in, which works are celebrated as his greatest achievements?

Accepted Answer

Late Operas

Question 20

Recording was incredibly challenging until this invention in the mid-1920's:

Accepted Answer

Microphone

Question 21

Which of Beethoven's symphonies has the most famous four note motive of all time?

Accepted Answer

Symphony Number 5

Question 22

German composers cultivated the song genre with such intensity that it earned this name:

Accepted Answer

Lieder

Question 23

Verdi used a longer unit of dramatic organization called:

Accepted Answer

Scene

Question 24

Modernists included this type of music into their compositions which reflected Nationalism:

Accepted Answer

Folk Music

Question 25

During the 19th century people started making a distinction between what 2 types of music?

Accepted Answer

Art and Popular

Question 26

The first professional association of U.S. music therapists was established in what year?

Accepted Answer

1950

Question 27

Because orchestral writing became so intricate, this became a necessity:

Accepted Answer

Conductor

Question 28

The most popular dance of the 19th century was the:

Accepted Answer

Waltz

Question 29

Which symphony was the first to follow Beethoven's works with great success?

Accepted Answer

Symphony Fantastique

Question 30

This describes a technique where composers took older styles while presenting them in new ways:

Accepted Answer

Historicism

Question 31

Which of the following is NOT one of the three protest movements of music we learned about?

Accepted Answer

Opposition to the 9/11 attacks

Question 32

The phonograph was invented by whom?

Accepted Answer

Edison

Question 33

Which of the following works is NOT one of Mozart's most celebrated?

Accepted Answer

Idomeneo

Question 34

Which composer was the first to develop possibilities of electronic music?

Accepted Answer

Edgard Varese

Question 35

A debate raged between the traditional style of opera and the new style in a dispute called:

Accepted Answer

All of the Above

Music History 122 Final Review

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Music History 122 Final Review

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