Romantic Period Music Review

The art of singing a spoken text in an opera, oratorio, or cantata is referred to as _____.

Lucia di Lammermoor is the most famous of _____'s operas.

_____ composed a series of virtuosic rhapsodies on Hungarian gypsy melodies, the best-known being Hungarian Rhapsody #2.

Giuseppi Verdi's opera _____ was written for the opening of the Suez Canal in 1871.

Giocchino Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville is an example of _____.

A _____ is an extended, single-movement work for orchestra, inspired by plays, poems, and paintings.

Using the entire chromatic scale, or half-tone series, to increase the emotional intensity of music is called _____.

_____ was the crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and the Romantic Periods.

_____ is unique in music history as being one of the great composers who concentrated on one musical genre at a time.

In the Romantic period, composers turned their attention to the expression of _____ in their music.

Romantic period music evolved from the classical period, and went further in the name of _____ and syncretism of music.

Der Freischutz is an opera by _____ about a hunter who makes a deal with the devil to when a shooting contest.

Franz Schubert's Die Schone Mullerin is an example of a _____.

_____'s most famous works are The Romeo and Juliet Overture, the opera Eugen Onegin, and The Nutcracker Suite.

The term _____ describes music that tells a story or sets a scene.