Classical/Romantic/Twentieth/Contemporary Music

What were private gatherings that were assembled by Schubert's friends where he could try out new works called?

What is the term that means dissonant chords can appear freely

Who was known as Russia's greatest composer of the nineteenth century and wrote the Nutcracker?

Who became recognized as Russia's leading composer and a spokesperson for socialist realism in music

Who was a strong nationalistic Czech composer?

What was a gradual increase from very soft to very loud with a repeating figure over a pedal point?

Where did the Emersonian ideal of self-reliance bloom in American music

Who enrolled in the Conservatory of the Musikverein to begin training for the career of a virtuoso pianist

What gradually replaced the solo concerto and concerto grosso as the leading genre of large-scale instrumental music?

Who was compared to the leading impressionist painter Claude Monet?

Who was said to have been as musically talented as her brother and remained his advisor until her death?

What did Robert Schumann struggle with throughout his life?

Whose imagination as a child was fired equally by music and literature and wanted to be a concert pianist?

Who was born twenty-five miles east of Vienna in 1732 and worked at the Esterhazy court?

Who contributed to the rise of the Gewandhaus Orchestra's international fame?

Who was known primarily as a composer of rag?

Whose life was fall of constant travel among composing, conducting, performing, musical criticism, and managing theaters

What contains a symbolic treatment of character's irrational impulses which often lead to grotesque or violent ends

What is a theatrical presentation in which a story or idea is communicated by music, mime, and dancing

Who began to compose at age 11 and attracted attention for his skill as a keyboard player who later went deaf?

What was the arts and letters in Russia during the reign of Tsar Nicholas II entering a prosperous time called?

What kind of music would women perform in the classical era?

What was the emotional effect Liszt had on his audiences called?

Which place had a special development in Jazz

Which is one of the four genres Jazz was created from?

What was when the playwright looked realistically at the lives of people from the lower social classes?

Who played violin in the school's orchestra and studied composition privately with Antonio Salieri?

What was the biggest center for development of the Concert Symphony?

What were the forerunners of the Broadway musical, and consisted of songs and dances strung together by a story line

Who created the twelve-tone method?

Who was a child prodigy whose fame shot suddenly across the musical firmament on piano?

How many months apart were the Mendelssohn sibling's death?

What was the epicenter for Italian opera buffa?

Who rose to fame as a composer by realizing the concept of integrated ballet?

Did Wagner write his own operatic texts?

Who was Beethoven originally supposed to study with?

What term came from the grandiose lengths, lavish use of chorus and ballet, and spectacular effects?

What is the main controversy of Richard Wagner

Who was born in Raiding, fifty miles south of Vienna, and was a Hungarian Nationalist

Schubert's symphonies were published while he was still alive

Who was the most distinctive voice in the musical culture of the 1830's and 1840's?

What type of music was allowed under Stalin's rule

Was largely self-taught as a composer, wrote German Opera, and is now highly controversial

Who was appointed concertmaster of the Frankfurt Opera orchestra at 19

What was a triadic theme that burst forth as a rising arpeggio?

Which work of Shostakovich's was attacked after he spoke out against Socialist Realism

Who was one of the great piano virtuosos of the nineteenth century?

What term can be used to describe Latin American music of the time

What famous march did Elgar write that is used for Graduation Ceremonies

Who resumed his education in Krakow and wrote Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima?

Who was largely self-taught as a composer, receiving guidance from several friends and was part of the Kutchka?

Who were a handful of Russian composers who believed that foreigners had no place in Russia?

What was a type of variety show consisting of comedy routines, short skits, juggling, animal tricks, with songs

Who was the second son of J.S Bach and served as personal accompanist to the King of Prussia?

Who set out at the age of nineteen on a tour to make himself and his music known and was also friends with the Schumanns

Who attended the conservatory in Warsaw where his teacher put on his final report card that he was a "musical genius"

Which ensemble was the centerpiece in America and continues to be to this day

Was the Rite of Spring well received