Romantic Music Unit Review

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Early Romantic music written for amateur musicians?

This composer established the format of the modern-day piano recital.

Romantic melodies were mainly stepwise motion, moderately narrow range; mainly diatonic, but include some chromaticism

Who were Brahms' mentors?

Dvořák was inspired by what type of music? (Choose 2)

Which of the following is NOT a revolutionary aspect of Symphonie Fantastique?

Which pedal shifts the position of the hammers on a piano, thereby reducing the dynamic level?

Identify the theme in the audio example.

Which statement is NOT a facet of program music?

Identify this composer

Berlioz's primary source of income came from teaching students.

What is a "Schubertiad"?

Identify this composer

Which pieces speaks of the artists growing remoteness from everyday life and withdrawal into a private world of music

What type of music did Brahms champion?

In which country(ies) was the art song cultivated with the greatest intensity?

During the Romantic Period, composers relied on public performance, teaching, composing for commission, and publication.

Which piece of music brought Dvořák international fame?

The German term for art song.

What is the term coined to describe the hysterical reaction of audiences during the concerts of Liszt?

Romantic harmony has greater use of chromaticism and sudden shifts to remote chords for expressive purposes

Which of the following pieces does NOT portray elements of the supernatural?

The musical form of Schubert's Erlkönig is:

This composer is considered by some to be the last in the long line of great German symphony composers.

Which piece's melody was later set to words and published as a song called "Goin' Home"?

Identify this composer

The Italian word for "robbed"; an expression mark indicating that the performer may take great liberties with the tempo

Instrumental music that seeks to re-create in sound the events and emotions portrayed in some extramusical source

Which art form was particularly important to Romantic composers?

The ophicleide, used in Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, is:

Which genre uses stylized steps and pantomime to tell a story?

"Eusebius,""Florestan,"and "Chopin" from Robert Schumann's composition Carnival are examples of which genre?

Which composer had the greatest success in writing Lieder?

Identify the theme in the audio example.

Which composition is an example of absolute music?

A one movement work for orchestra that gives musical expression to the emotions/events associated with a story or play

This composer often borrowed melodies from his own songs to use as themes in his symphonies.

This composer is known as the "poet of the piano" and is considered a national hero in Poland.

Which genre of piano music suggests moonlit nights, romantic longing, and a certain painful melancholy?

A genre of music emerging in the 19th century in which the solo voice is accompanied by a full orchestra

Which piece suggests a nocturnal chase in a supernatural forest?

Which composition, which like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, typifies the dark Romantic fascination with the supernatural

Composers stopped using Classical forms during the Romantic period.

What instrument became a central part of the home during the Romantic Period?

Identify the theme in the audio example.

A one movement work that precedes a drama or play that portrays through music the dramatic events of the opera or play

Which statement regarding Romeo and Juliet is wrong?

Performances of this author’s plays made a deep impression on Berlioz.

Romantic tempo is cut loose from the restraints of a regular beat and can fluctuate greatly (tempo rubato)

Which piece uses the pentatonic scale as a basis for its melody?

How did the music of the Romantic Period promote national identity?

Identify this composer

Literature inspired the creation of new genres such as the art song, program symphony, and tone poem.

In Romeo and Juliet, Tchaikovsky aimed to retell as precisely as possible the sequence of events in the play.

Identify this composer

Identify this composer

What purpose does cross-stringing the piano serve?

Which of the following was NOT added to the orchestra during the Romantic period?

The technique that requires string players to strike the strings with the wood of the bow

A fast dance in triple meter with an accent on the second beat. Its melody draws on native folk tunes.

A symphony with 3, 4, or 5 movements, which depict a succession of specific events or scenes from an extramusical story

Which of the following is NOT source of inspiration during the Romantic period?

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Brahms' style?

This genre is a short, one-movement composition designed to improve one or more aspects of a performer’s technique.

Why did 19th century composers write fewer symphonies and concertos than their late 18th century counterparts?

Which instrument is a double reed and a low sounding cousin of the oboe with a haunting sound?

Brahms' German Requiem is based on the Catholic Latin Mass.

For ballet music to be successful, it requires short bursts of tuneful melody and captivating rhythms.

What is a celesta?

The idée fixe in Symphonie Fantasique is associated with what object or idea?

Instrumental music free of text or any pre-existing program

A proportional reduction in a melody's rhythmic value so that it is played twice as fast.

A brief instrumental work, usually for the piano, seeking to capture a single mood

Term meaning that two themes heard simultaneously can reverse position and still sound appropriate together

Romantic composers were thought of as craftsmen and music purely entertainment.

A genre for solo voice and piano accompaniment with high artistic aspirations usually with poetic text.

What is the term used to describe when a violinist plays multiple strings at once?

The name of the burial hymn of the medieval Church is:

Song form wherein the music is briefly altered to accommodate a particularly expressive word or phrase in the text.

A tightly structured group of individual vocal compositions that tell a story or have a unifying theme