HWM ch. 28-30

Question 1

American bands in the late nineteenth century excluded European masterworks and cultivated more accessible repertoire

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False

Question 2

In the terminology of US popular song, the scoring of song refrains for multiple voices led to their being called verses

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False

Question 3

Sousa’s marches included a

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break strain.

Question 4

Leitmotives are

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motives assoc. with various things, repeated & transformed over time.

Question 5

What is one reason Dvořák came to the United States?

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He was hired to establish an American national school of composers.

Question 6

What is one way that concert programming was different in 1850 than it was in 1800?

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In 1850, programs increasingly featured music of the past.

Question 7

Which of the following emerged in the middle of the 19th century?

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musicology

Question 8

Women were not permitted to enroll at major universities in the late nineteenth century.

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True

Question 9

A symphonic poem is a

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one-movement programmatic work for orchestra.

Question 10

A musical scale comprised of the pitches of two interlocking dim. 7th chords a semitone apart is called a whole tone.

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False

Question 11

In the final decade of the nineteenth century, Richard Strauss wrote mostly

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tone poems.

Question 12

Concerning American music, Dvořák advocated for the use of

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African- and Native-American music.

Question 13

Der Ring des Niebelungen is

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a cycle of four operas.

Question 14

What musical development by Beethoven was particularly significant for Wagner in The Artwork of the Future?

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the addition of voices to a symphony

Question 15

In debates about music at the end of the nineteenth century, composers like Wagner and Liszt favored

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program music.

Question 16

Johann Strauss and Arthur Sullivan composed theatrical works known as

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operettas.

Question 17

What is one way in which Verdi’s operas differed from those of the bel canto generation?

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Verdi’s singers were secondary to the composer.

Question 18

What is one way the composer’s role shifted in the later 19th century?

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Composers were able to work without the limitations of an impresario.

Question 19

Who was a successful composer from Norway at the end of the nineteenth century?

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Edvard Grieg

Question 20

Gabriel Fauré drew inspiration from

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older French composers.

Question 21

Wagner’s concept that all aspects of opera production - music, drama, poetry, design, staging, etc. - come together is

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Gesamtkunstwerk.

Question 22

What was the Mighty Five’s response to the nationalist turn?

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They were significant figureheads for Russia and resisted outside influenc

Question 23

According to Wagner’s conception of Gesamtkunstwerk

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music, drama, poetry, design, and staging come together in a single work.

Question 24

Wagner’s use of leitmotives as a primary structuring device give the experience of

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endless melody.

Question 25

Brahms’s source for his music was often

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music of the past.

Question 26

Opéra bouffe

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poked fun at French society and operatic tradition.

Question 27

The group of composers that valued new developments and music connected to other arts were dubbed the

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New German School.

Question 28

A spiritual was a

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sacred, southern, African-American song.

Question 29

What part of Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony stands out as particularly Russian?

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the scherzo

Question 30

Bruckner’s orchestration was influenced by

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his experience as an organist.

Question 31

The Schola Cantorum’s curriculum differed from that of the Paris Conservatory in stressing

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a broad study of music history.

Question 32

What 19th-century social convention did Amy Beach buck in her career?

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Women should not attempt large-scale formats like symphonies and masses.

Question 33

The most popular style of theatrical entertainment in the United States before talking movies was

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vaudeville.

Question 34

In a typical American march, the tunes are presented in musical periods that are also known as strains.

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True

Question 35

One compositional technique that Liszt illustrated in Les preludes is

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thematic transformation.

Question 36

Evoking non-Western lands & cultures in music by a European composer is called internationalism

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False

Question 37

Most music written by US composers in the late 19th century did not long remain part of the canon of concert repertoire.

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True

Question 38

The phrase “Viva Verdi!” reflects

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Verdi’s involvement in the Italian unification movement.

Question 39

The song publishing industry in the 1880-90s was based in a NY neighborhood popularly known as Tin Pan Alley

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True

Question 40

How did Verdi often express his nationalism in his operas?

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by setting his operas in historical circumstances that mirrored those of IT

Question 41

Wagner’s use of leitmotives as a primary structuring device give the experience of

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endless melody.

Question 42

After the US Civil War, bands declined and were unpopular until the early 1900s.

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False

Question 43

What is one reason Czech composers’ instr music is better known outside their countries of origin than their operas?

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Without words, instrumental music can cross borders more easily.

Question 44

The Paris school founded in 1853 to provide instruction especially in church music was called the École Niedermeyer

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True

Question 45

What contributed to the popularity of bands in the nineteenth century?

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the invention of brass valves

Question 46

In the 1890s, Gabriel Fauré was regarded as the standard-bearer for France’s conservative musical establishment.

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False

Question 47

Bizet’s Carmen exhibits French interest in

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exoticism.

Question 48

Many of Wagner’s and Verdi’s stage works were overtly or implicitly linked to contemporary political crises and issues.

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True

Question 49

Most of Amy Beach’s music

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reflects the influence of German classics.

Question 50

What is one hallmark of Johannes Brahms’s style?

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simultaneous divisions of time units into two and three

Question 51

What was Tchaikovsky’s response to the nationalist turn?

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He compromised b/t adopting the trad of W EUR and forging a nat'l identity

Question 52

Sousa’s innovations in the march made the form more conducive to

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concert performance.

Question 53

Wagner’s leitmotive technique was very important for twentieth-century developments in film music

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True

Question 54

Which late-century critic often advocated for absolute music?

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Eduard Hanslick

Question 55

What was one issue in the debate around Wagner and Brahms?

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absolute vs. program music

Question 56

Religious songs of slaves, passed down through oral tradition, often expressing longing for freedom, are known as hymns

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False

Question 57

In ITL opera the late 19thc trend of vivid, real depiction of oft-sordid lives & conflicts of lower classes is verisimo

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True

Question 58

Nationalism was a powerful force in opera history, but had little impact on abstract genres of chamber & orchestral musi

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False

Question 59

What was Anton Bruckner’s response to Wagner’s developments?

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He applied Wagner’s techniques to more traditional idioms, esp. in the chur

Question 60

César Franck’s style blended traditional forms with techniques of

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Liszt and Wagner.

Question 61

What is one thing that distinguishes Wagner’s leitmotives from typical melodic material?

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Leitmotives are repeated and transformed, becoming part of the storytelling

Question 62

Strauss’s principal models for program music were

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Liszt and Berlioz.

Question 63

In France, the Société Nationale de Musique

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promoted FR composers and FR music of the past through producing concerts.

Question 64

Which of the following is one trait of African-American music?

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call and response

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