Romantic Music Unit Review

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What is a celesta?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Identify the theme in the audio example.

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

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

Composers stopped using Classical forms during the Romantic period.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Identify the theme in the audio example.

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The German term for art song.

What is a "Schubertiad"?

Which art form was particularly important to Romantic composers?

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

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

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Which piece suggests a nocturnal chase in a supernatural forest?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

Who were Brahms' mentors?

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

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

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

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

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

The musical form of Schubert's Erlkönig is:

Instrumental music free of text or any pre-existing program

Which piece of music brought Dvořák international fame?

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

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

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

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

What purpose does cross-stringing the piano serve?

Identify the theme in the audio example.

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

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

What type of music did Brahms champion?

Which composer had the greatest success in writing Lieder?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Which statement is NOT a facet of program music?

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

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