HAVPA Test 5

Classical painters chose to depict _________.

What is the part of an opera that features melodic singing?

Which of the following was NOT one of Noverre's "rules" for ballet mentioned in his book?

The Romantic period saw artists increasingly dependent on royal families and/or the Church.

Which building inspired early American architecture?

Richard Wagner was Adolf Hitler's favorite composer.

Opera buffa means _________.

Tchaikovsky was a member of the group of composers called "The Russian Five"

In the Oath of Horatii, what are the young men taking an oath to do?

Which of the following was a guiding principle of Realism visual art?

What is satire?

Classical composers believed that strict, layered polyphony was pleasing to the ear.

Which of the following composers wrote, and is famous for, twelve London symphonies?

What is a virtuoso?

The main contribution to theatre in the Neoclassical period was _________.

What literary movement paralleled the Classical/Neoclassical time period?

Who wrote the Code of Terpsicore, a book used to teach ballet?

What does the Romantic ballet term sur les points describe?

Which of the following is a Post-Romantic composer?

What is the name of the English painter from the Romantic period that painted landscapes?

Which of the following was NOT a popular social dance in America during Romantic period?

The Romantic period in music was between the years:

During the Romantic period, composers continued to benefit from the patronage system.

What was the term for a dancer jumping into the air and rapidly crossing their feet?

In Symphonie Fantastique by Hector Berlioz, each movement is based on what?

Composers of the Classical time period favored what type of texture?

"The 3 unities" from the Classical/Neoclassical period were unity of time, space and action.

What is the main premise of the Romantic time period?

The Romantic opera composer Giuseppe Verdi's name was used to support for Italian unification.

Which composer was considered "too Russian" by German audiences, but "too German" for Russians?

What dance critic in Romantic time period theorized that men were "too big and ugly" to dance?

Notes that don't belong to the traditional scale are known as _________ alterations.

The home of the 3rd President of the U.S. whose design was inspired by Villa Rotunda.

Which Classical genre contains music written for a smaller group in a smaller space?

Johann Wolfgang van Goethe's Faust was so long that theatres couldn't perform it in his life.

Niccolo Paganini was a virtuosic piano player.

With which royal family was Haydn closely associated?

Richard Strauss and Sergei Rachmaninoff are considered to be _________?

Which of the following was NOT a Realism playwright?

What was the subject of The Third of May, by Francisco Goya?

Which Romantic composer wrote Flight of the Bumblebee?

Which is not a Neoclassical unity of theatre?

What was the major development in ballet shoes during the Romantic period?

Which Finnish composer's most famous piece became his country's national anthem?

A French painter developed the Neoclassical style; he became involved in radical politics.

During Romantic period choral music enjoyed its highest popularity since the Renaissance period

There is a sub-genre of melodrama called canine melodrama, which are plays where hero is a dog.

Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams based his plays on his real-life childhood in 1920s Missouri

Which of the following composers was the first to make an independent living by composing?

What feature of Gustav Mahler's symphonies reflect the extremes of the late Romantic period?

Which of the following was NOT a member of the Russian Five?

According to "the 3 unities" of the Classical/Neoclassical theatre, what is the unity of space?

A type of piece that features solo piano or solo instrument with piano accompaniment is called:

Who was Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (aka Moliere)?

What physical problem did Ludwig van Beethoven have?

Who was considered to be one of the superstars of the Romantic ballet?

_________ wrote The Blue Danube Waltz.

Which Romantic work features an account of the composer and his opium-induced hallucinations?

Who is the only American to win the Nobel prize for literature?

Which of the following was NOT a famous ballet dancer of the Romantic period?