Romantic Music Part 1

Verdi studied music in ____, the city where Italy's most important opera house La Scala is

Most of Chopin's pieces

In Puccini's La Boheme, Rodolfo is a young

A slight slowing down or speeding up of tempo

Until he was 36, Liszt toured Europe as a virtuoso what?

The form of The Erlking is

Verdi mainly composed his operas

A Romantic composer who earned his living as a touring virtuoso was

When a composer writes new music for each stanza, the form is

Liszt's piano works are characterized by

Which of the following statements is not true of the piano in the early Romantic period

Chopin's output is

Puccini's opera La Boheme takes place in

Clara Wieck was

Which of the following is NOT true of the romantic art song

Altering the character of a melody by changing dynamics, orchestration, or rhythm is known as

When music conservatories were founded, women

What is not a characteristic aspect of romanticism in literature and painting

Critics were often scandalized by the subject matter of Verdi's operas because

Clara Schumann

An art song is a musical composition for

R. Schumann founded & edited the New Journal of Music in order to

Rigoletto, the title role in Verdi's opera, is all of the following EXCEPT

Giacomo Puccini, in his operas

Verdi's later operas differ from his earlier ones in that they have

Schubert was

R. Schumann's Carnaval is a(n)

Clara Schumann frequently performed the works of her husband and of her close friend

Operas dealt with ordinary people & true-to-life situations, was known as

Which statement is not true

When the same music is repeated for each stanza of a poem, the form is

A study piece, designed to help a performer master specific technical difficulties is

The rise of the urban middle-class led to the

Wagner had an opera house built to his own specification in

Which statement is NOT true

During the first 10 years of his creative life, Schumann published only

In the 1830s, Paris was

A slow, lyrical, intimate composition for piano, associated with evening & night is

The word ____ is commonly used for a Romantic art song with a German text

A short musical idea associated with a person, object, or thought, used by Wagner is called

The composer who had an overwhelming influence on the young Wagner was

The orchestra in the Romantic period

Wagner called his works music dramas rather than operas because

The 1844 Treatise on Modern Instrumentation and Orchestration was written by

What years did the Romantic period span?

What statement about R. Schumann is NOT true

A very important musical part of every middle-class home was

Schubert's songs number more than

Verdi's great comic masterpiece, written when he was 79, is

The mood of and art song is often set by a brief piano intro and summed up at the end called