HAVPA Test 5

The Romantic opera composer Giuseppe Verdi's name was used to support for Italian unification.

Composers of the Classical time period favored what type of texture?

Which Finnish composer's most famous piece became his country's national anthem?

What was the term for a dancer jumping into the air and rapidly crossing their feet?

Which composer was considered "too Russian" by German audiences, but "too German" for Russians?

Who wrote the Code of Terpsicore, a book used to teach ballet?

Opera buffa means _________.

Which of the following was NOT a popular social dance in America during Romantic period?

The Romantic period saw artists increasingly dependent on royal families and/or the Church.

Which Romantic composer wrote Flight of the Bumblebee?

What is the main premise of the Romantic time period?

What feature of Gustav Mahler's symphonies reflect the extremes of the late Romantic period?

What dance critic in Romantic time period theorized that men were "too big and ugly" to dance?

The main contribution to theatre in the Neoclassical period was _________.

"The 3 unities" from the Classical/Neoclassical period were unity of time, space and action.

Which of the following was NOT a famous ballet dancer of the Romantic period?

The Romantic period in music was between the years:

According to "the 3 unities" of the Classical/Neoclassical theatre, what is the unity of space?

Which building inspired early American architecture?

A French painter developed the Neoclassical style; he became involved in radical politics.

What does the Romantic ballet term sur les points describe?

What physical problem did Ludwig van Beethoven have?

In Symphonie Fantastique by Hector Berlioz, each movement is based on what?

Which is not a Neoclassical unity of theatre?

_________ wrote The Blue Danube Waltz.

What literary movement paralleled the Classical/Neoclassical time period?

Richard Strauss and Sergei Rachmaninoff are considered to be _________?

Which of the following is a Post-Romantic composer?

What is the part of an opera that features melodic singing?

Johann Wolfgang van Goethe's Faust was so long that theatres couldn't perform it in his life.

Which of the following composers was the first to make an independent living by composing?

Which of the following was NOT a Realism playwright?

Notes that don't belong to the traditional scale are known as _________ alterations.

Who was considered to be one of the superstars of the Romantic ballet?

During Romantic period choral music enjoyed its highest popularity since the Renaissance period

Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams based his plays on his real-life childhood in 1920s Missouri

Which Classical genre contains music written for a smaller group in a smaller space?

What was the major development in ballet shoes during the Romantic period?

Classical composers believed that strict, layered polyphony was pleasing to the ear.

Classical painters chose to depict _________.

Which Romantic work features an account of the composer and his opium-induced hallucinations?

What is satire?

Which of the following was a guiding principle of Realism visual art?

The home of the 3rd President of the U.S. whose design was inspired by Villa Rotunda.

In the Oath of Horatii, what are the young men taking an oath to do?

What is a virtuoso?

Which of the following was NOT one of Noverre's "rules" for ballet mentioned in his book?

What was the subject of The Third of May, by Francisco Goya?

During the Romantic period, composers continued to benefit from the patronage system.

Which of the following composers wrote, and is famous for, twelve London symphonies?

Who was Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (aka Moliere)?

What is the name of the English painter from the Romantic period that painted landscapes?

With which royal family was Haydn closely associated?

A type of piece that features solo piano or solo instrument with piano accompaniment is called:

Which of the following was NOT a member of the Russian Five?

Niccolo Paganini was a virtuosic piano player.

Richard Wagner was Adolf Hitler's favorite composer.

Who is the only American to win the Nobel prize for literature?

There is a sub-genre of melodrama called canine melodrama, which are plays where hero is a dog.

Tchaikovsky was a member of the group of composers called "The Russian Five"