MUS 106 Exam 2 Review

The exotic quality of Asian cultures is sometimes evoked by composers through use of the _______________ scale

In the United States, the 19th century was a period of expansion and population growth.

In the decade after the defeat of Napolean in 1815, the restored French monarchy forbade opera performances.

The principle theme of Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, representing the artist's unrequited love, is known as the

Felix Mendelssohn's interest in composing oratorios was largely motivated by his knowledge of

German Romantic opera is distinguished most sharply from contemporary French and Italian opera by

Melodrama is an 18th- and 19th-century style of theatrical delivery consisting of speech over orchestral accompaniment.

During the 1880s and 1890s, composers in the United States generally agreed that

Like Wagner, Verdi drew the majority of the plots of his mature operas from myth and medieval epic.

One observer described the first symphony composed by _________________________as "Beethoven's Tenth"

Antonín Dvořak was first exposed to African American music through

Das Jahr (The Year, 1841) by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel is a

Verdi's 1871 opera Aida premiered in

Berlioz composed Symphonie fantastique largely under the influence of

Perhaps more than any other European composer, Beethoven exerted a lasting influence throughout the 19th century.

Musorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition was later orchestrated by French composer Maurice Ravel.

Opening of diplomatic relations between the US and Japan in the mid-19th century provided the context for the plot of

Parlor songs of the early 19th century generally differ from German lieder, such as Schubert's, in that

Nationalist composers of marginalized or subjugated regions of Europe emphasized their unique cultural identities by

Gabriel Fauré's mature works, such as Avant que tu ne t'en ailles, are distinguished by

The mazurka, championed by Chopin, is a stylized Polish dance in triple meter with an accented second or third beat.

Nationalism had a powerful influence on opera, as well as abstract genres of chamber and orchestral music.

The notion of Gesamtkuntswerk, or the "total work of art," is associated with

A composition intended to demonstrate and develop a particular technical facility on an instrument is called

In the 19th century, musical settings of German poems were known as lieder.

Which predecessors most strongly influenced Strauss's techniques of opera composition?

A number of popular American parlor songs written by ___________________ were composed for the blackface minstrelsy

Franz Liszt, the leading pianist of his day, was known for the unusual size of his

The "Mighty Handful" composers were united in their rejection of

In the late 18th/early 19th centuries, Romanticism arose an an affirmation of rationalist ideals of the Enlightenment.