Romantic Period Test Review

What form in concertos has the orchestra play the exposition first and the soloist play second?

Stravinsky's ballet, Rite of Spring, is an example of what?

Which opera was the "Lone Ranger" theme music originally written for?

Twentieth-century art and music style based on symmetrically balanced forms is:

Brahm's requiem mass is designed to:

Composers used folk music from isolated villages to express nationalism because:

French opera with plots from romantic drama or fantasy with beautiful melodies

Which composers music was used as theme music for the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey?

Much of Tchaikovsky's depression and problems stemmed from:

Musical setting of a poem for solo voice and piano is a(n):

What music style had a strong influence on Ravel's music compositions?

A style of singing that emphasizes purity of tone, beauty, and agile vocal technique is called:

Stravinksy's Rite of Spring Ballet depicts:

A vocal technique where the music is half-sung, half-spoken is called:

Gesamtkunstwerk means:

An Italian operatic viewpoint favoring realistic subjects taken from everyday lower class life:

Program music that is a fairly short, single movement work for concert hall performance is:

A portrayal of technologically underdeveloped people is:

A narrative poem set to music is a(n):

Who wrote the "Unfinished Symphony"?

Which movies embrace the elements- good against evil and power search as Wagner's Ring Cycle?

How is Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor different from classical concertos?

In Symphonie Fantastique, Berlioz uses this theme that appears in all five movements:

Music that represents tormented feelings or people stuck in a world of pain and conflict is:

A series of art songs meant to be performed as a unit is called:

Chopin expressed his Polish nationalism primarily thru his:

A system of musical organization which arranges twelve chromatic tones in a chosen order is:

The earliest phongraph recorded sound on a:

Who was one of the most prolific composers of art songs or lieder?

Which composer invented the symphonic poem?

One of the greatest composers of program music during the Romantic period was:

Who wrote the Symphony nicknamed "From the New World"?

Music intended to promote the character and interests of a nation is:

A piano piece based on a Polish dance is a:

Tchaikovsky's most performed work is probably:

Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique is an example of:

Music composed for the appreciation of musical sound and does not tell a story is called:

Who invented serialism and the twelve tone row?

French opera with spectacular production elements

A music and art movement that focuses on the rendering of light rather than realistic portrayal

The term Wagner used for his operas, he called them:

The musical Miss Saigon has the same plot as which Puccini opera?

The idea of assigning values to musical information is:

Melodies used to identify particular characters, objects, and ideas in Wagner's operas are:

Which violinist was so good it was said he had sold his soul to the devil?

Light French opera with spoken dialogue

A study piece for piano is called:

The first composer to make field recordings of folk music for use in his compositions was:

Verdi's last two operas have librettos based on:

A fairly short piano piece portraying a single mood, emotion or idea is called: