Romantic Concept Questions

The word _____ is commonly used for a romantic art song with a German text.

Schubert was born in ______.

The piano's relentless rhythm in Erlkonig unifies the episodes of the song and suggests the _____.

Outside France, Berlioz enjoyed a great career as a(n) ______.

Schubert wrote a number of symphonies and chamber works that are comparable to those of his idol, ______.

One of the few composers fortunate enough to be supported by private patrons was ______.

By the age of thirteen, Mendelssohn had written _____ of astounding quality.

In 1830 Berlioz was awarded _______.

Most of Chopin's pieces _______.

The citizen's sense of national identity and patriotic feelings were intensified by ______.

Non-program music is also known as ______ music.

Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto was inspired by ______.

Which of the following statements is not true?

Mendelssohn wrote in all musical forms except _____.

The form of The Erlkonig is ______.

In the 1830s, Paris was ______.

What is program music?

When music conservatories were founded, women ______.

Music intended to be performed before and during a play is known as _____.

Altering the character of a melody by changes in dynamics, orchestration, or a rhythm is known as ______.

What was Schubert's primary source of income?

A romantic composer who earned his living as a touring virtuoso was _____.

A slow, lyrical, intimate composition for piano, associated with evening and nighttime is the ______.

Which of the following statements is not true?

Which of the following is not characteristic of romanticism?

What did the rise of the urban middle class lead to?

Which of the following statements is not true?

The deliberate intent to draw creative inspiration from the composer's own homeland is known as _____.

As a youth, Franz Liszt was influenced by the performances of ____.

Mendelssohn's Concerto for Violin in E Minor opens with a(n) _______.

Which of the following statements is not true?

Drawing creative inspiration from cultures of lands foreign to the composer is known as ______.

Which of the following composers is not associated with the romantic peri-od?

Music criticism was a source of income for both Hector Berlioz and _____.

In the first movement of Mendelssohn's Concerto for Violin, the cadenza ______.

Today's movie scores may be regarded as examples of ______.

The fourth movement of Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony depicts a ______.

Clara Schumann was a _______.

The Fantastic Symphony reflects Berlioz's ______.

Which of the following is not a characteristic aspect of romanticism in liter-ature and painting?

A very important musical part of every middle-class home during the romantic period was the _____.

Schubert wrote compositions in every musical genre except _____.

The mood of an art song is often set by a brief piano introduction and summed up at the end by a ____.

The work referred to by Beethoven as an "expression of feeling rather than painting" was his _______.

Schubert's Winterreise and Schumann's Dichterliebe are examples of _____.

An art song is a musical composition for ______.

In order to support his family, Berlioz turned to ______.

Many aristocrats could not afford to keep private opera houses, etc., because of the French Revolution and the _______.

The contrasting episodes of Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony are unified by the recurrence of a theme known as the ______.

During his teens and twenties, Franz Liszt lived in ______.

How did composers express musical nationalism in their music?

Johannes Brahms _______.

A slight holding back or pressing forward of tempo in music is known as ______.

Schubert _____.

Schubert's songs number more than ______.

Berlioz was extraordinarily imaginative in treating the orchestra, creating ____ never before heard.

The high point of Mendelssohn's career was the triumphant premiere of his oratorio ____ in England.

The 1844 Treatise on Modern Instrumentation and Orchestration was writt-en by ______.

Which of the following is not true of Robert Schumann's works?

Chopin's Revolutionary Etude develops the pianist's left hand because ____.

While in Paris, Chopin _____.

The orchestra in the romantic period ______.

Schubert was 18 years old when he composed Erlkonig, set to a poem by _____.

Which of the following statements is not true?

Romanticism, as a stylistic period in Western music, encompassed the years _____.

Liszt abandoned his career as a traveling virtuoso to become court conductor at ________.

Which of the following statements is not true?

An orchestra toward the end of the romantic period might include close to _____ musicians.

Mendelssohn is known as the man who rekindled an interest in the music of ______.

The writer whose literary works greatly inspired Franz Liszt was _____.

Which of the following statements is not true of the romantic art song?

Liszt typified the romantic movement because he _____.

Liszt's piano works are characterized by ______.

A study piece, designed to help a performer master specific technical diffic-ulities, is known as ______.

All of the following composers were also virtuoso instrumentalists giving solo recitals except ______.

Of all the inspirations for romantic art, none was more important than _____.

The German composers of art song favored the lyric poetry of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and _____.

A leading pianist of the nineteenth century, Clara Schumann ______.

The _____ is a dance in triple meter that originated as a stately processional for the Polish nobility.

Parisians were startled by Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony because of its _____.

Clara Wieck was ______.

Chopin expressed his love Poland by composing polonaises and ______.

Which of the following statements is not true of the piano in the early rom-antic period?

The composer whose career was a model for many romantic composers was _______.

The three movements of Mendelssohn's Concerto for Violin _____.

Which of the following instruments is not part of the orchestra for Symphonie fantastique?

The Erlking, in Schubert's song of that name, is a romantic personification of ______.

The composer who developed the symphonic poem was ______.

A _____ is a one-movement orchestral composition based on a literary or pictorial idea.

Robert Schumann's Fantasiestucke is a(n) _______.

Liszt created the _____, a one movement orchestral composition based on a literary or pictorial idea.

How is Mendelssohn's Concerto for Violin different from a typical concerto of the classical era?

Which of the following statements is not true?

A ______ is an instrumental composition in several movements based on a literary or pictorial idea.

Until the age of thirty-six, Franz Liszt toured Europe as a virtuoso ______.

During the first ten years of his creative life, Schumann published only ____.

A composer who earned his/her living as a violin virtuoso was ______.

Which of the following statements is not true?

Instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene, popular during the romantic period is called ______.

The writer whose works had the greatest impact on the young Berlioz was ______.