Final Exam

Instrumental music endowed with literary, philosophical, or pictorial associations is called ________ music.

Beethoven suffered perhaps the most traumatic of all maladies for a musician. What was it?

A one-movement piece of program music for orchestra that develops a poetic idea or suggests a scene or mood is called

This excerpt comes from a larger piece called a [Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E-Flat Major, Mvt. III]

Characteristics of Berlioz’s music include

The Impressionist painters’ interest in color is paralleled by the Impressionist composers’ interest in

The term bel canto refers to

Which of the following best describes the genre of “étude” during the nineteenth century?

Composer Franz Schubert composed over six hundred Lieder.

A group of art song unified by a narrative thread or by a descriptive or expressive theme is called a(n)

The system in which the aristocracy sponsored musicians during the Classical era is called

The English translation for opera buffa is ________ opera.

The standard instrumentation for a string quartet includes two violins, one viola, and one cello.

Theme-and-variation form often utilizes which of the following compositional techniques?

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel was discouraged from pursuing a career as a composer because

The English translation for opera seria is ________ opera.

Leonard Bernstein was the first Australian-born musician to be appointed conductor of the New York Philharmonic.

Composers of character pieces chose more descriptive titles that depicted a mood or scene.

Which of the following best describes the work of the Impressionist painters?

In Wagner’s operas, the recurring themes, which represent specific characters, emotions, or ideas, are called leitmotifs

Impressionism was a style of painting that was cultivated principally in

What section in sonata-allegro form features the MOST tension and drama through modulation and motivic interplay?

A work that is cyclical in form occurs when a theme or musical idea from one movement returns in a later one.

The climax of sonata-allegro form is the __________, when the first and second themes are restated in the tonic key.

What is the form of this movement? [Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik III]

Which of the following genres usually follow(s) the general structure of a multimovement cycle?

The term rubato, associated with Chopin’s music, means that the performer should

A song that is composed from beginning to end without repetition of whole sections is called

The art song can be described as a union of poetry and music.

A song form in which the same melody is repeated with every stanza of text is called

What is the genre of this piece? [Haydn: String Quartet Op. 76 No. 3]

A song whose text is a short lyric poem in German with piano accompaniment is called a

Nineteenth-century composers’ MOST original contribution to large orchestral forms is

Which of the following is a type of orchestral program music

Chopin is credited with creating the

Grieg’s music is notable for

Which of the following composers invented the prepared piano?

What was the style of music developed by Philip Glass and characterized by repetitions of short motives?

We can best regard sonata-allegro from as a drama between

Groups of adjacent notes played on the piano with the fist, palm, or forearm are known as

Which best describes the musical character of this excerpt? [Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata, Mvt. I]

Which of the following instruments is featured most prominently in this excerpt? [Mozart: Symphony No. 40, Mvt. I]

The Rite of Spring is characterized by

In his early years, William Grant Still was associated with which artistic movement?

Which form is based on the recurrence of a musical idea in alternation with contrasting episodes?

The growth of nationalism became a decisive force within the Romantic movement.

________ was the American composer who successfully transformed American rural folk traditions into a national sound.

Which nineteenth-century composer’s entire output centered on the piano?

Impressionism in music is best exemplified by the works of

Which Tchaikovsky ballet is performed every Christmas all over the world?

Which of the following was a widely beloved Italian nationalist opera composer?

The opposite of program music is

Artists who seek to explore true creativity by breaking from social and artistic conventions are considered

The Harlem Renaissance highlighted African American intellectual life in the 1920s and 1930s.

Dvorák encouraged American composers to take inspiration from the music of which of the following sources?

The overall form of a minuet and trio is best described as

Which of the following best describes absolute music?

William Grant Still and other musicians worked to break down the long-standing prejudice against all black artists.

________ earned the nickname “father of the symphony.”