REVIEW: Romantic Music

Which composer was highly associated with politics?

Which of the following does not apply to Puccini’s operas?

Which of the following is NOT a theme from Tchaikovsky’s Fantasy-Overture Romeo and Juliet?

This composer also worked as a music critic, struggled with mental health issues, and mentored young Brahms

This Hungarian piano virtuoso wrote the Transcendental Etudes and was the original heart throb cliché.

The Concert Overture is a through-composed work in one movement.

True or False: Nationalism in music is most often discussed with composers from the big 3: Germany, Italy, and France.

Which of the following composers was not known for piano miniatures?

This composer is associated with the Italian Risorgimento

Romantic music in classical form, the use of duple vs. triple meter, and hemiola, describes the music of:

_____ is a miniature genre for voice and piano, which uses the German language and maintains a single mood.

This epic four-opera cycle covers the story of stolen gold, and epitomizes romantic grandiose ideals.

Gesamtkunstwerk means "total work of art"

Nadezhda von Meck was pen pals with_____ for 13 years and provided him a yearly annuity.

In Erlkonig, the composer illustrates that the Earl King is of a different wold or realm by assigning him a different:

Which composer’s music is characterized by distortion and parody?

Which opera uses Victor Hugo's "Le roi s'amuse" as s text source?

Wagner uses _____ to musically illustrate a character's personality

A Programmatic work for orchestra composed in one movement with a free form is called:

The early Romantic era has strong ties to which other art forms?

This composer felt in Beethoven’s shadow, yet he quotes the great master in the final movement of his first symphony.

Whose leitmotif is a rising and falling broken chord?