Romantic Music Part 1

The orchestra in the Romantic period

When the same music is repeated for each stanza of a poem, the form is

The mood of and art song is often set by a brief piano intro and summed up at the end called

Operas dealt with ordinary people & true-to-life situations, was known as

The form of The Erlking is

A Romantic composer who earned his living as a touring virtuoso was

An art song is a musical composition for

When a composer writes new music for each stanza, the form is

Schubert's songs number more than

Clara Wieck was

Critics were often scandalized by the subject matter of Verdi's operas because

A slow, lyrical, intimate composition for piano, associated with evening & night is

During the first 10 years of his creative life, Schumann published only

The rise of the urban middle-class led to the

Which of the following is NOT true of the romantic art song

Puccini's opera La Boheme takes place in

R. Schumann's Carnaval is a(n)

Altering the character of a melody by changing dynamics, orchestration, or rhythm is known as

Clara Schumann

Verdi's later operas differ from his earlier ones in that they have

What is not a characteristic aspect of romanticism in literature and painting

Schubert was

Which statement is NOT true

Verdi studied music in ____, the city where Italy's most important opera house La Scala is

What years did the Romantic period span?

Liszt's piano works are characterized by

Until he was 36, Liszt toured Europe as a virtuoso what?

A study piece, designed to help a performer master specific technical difficulties is

Wagner called his works music dramas rather than operas because

In the 1830s, Paris was

Verdi mainly composed his operas

Wagner had an opera house built to his own specification in

Which of the following statements is not true of the piano in the early Romantic period

Rigoletto, the title role in Verdi's opera, is all of the following EXCEPT

In Puccini's La Boheme, Rodolfo is a young

Which statement is not true

Chopin's output is

Clara Schumann frequently performed the works of her husband and of her close friend

A slight slowing down or speeding up of tempo

Verdi's great comic masterpiece, written when he was 79, is

When music conservatories were founded, women

The 1844 Treatise on Modern Instrumentation and Orchestration was written by

A very important musical part of every middle-class home was

Giacomo Puccini, in his operas

R. Schumann founded & edited the New Journal of Music in order to

The composer who had an overwhelming influence on the young Wagner was

Most of Chopin's pieces

The word ____ is commonly used for a Romantic art song with a German text

A short musical idea associated with a person, object, or thought, used by Wagner is called

What statement about R. Schumann is NOT true