Romantic Period of Music

The course of Brahms' artistic and personal life was shaped by the influence of which composer

Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet is

Clara Wieck was

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

In 1830 the Paris Conservatory awarded Berlioz

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

The "father of Russian music" is

Composers expressed musical nationalism in their music by

Fantastic Symphony reflects Berlioz's

Mendelssohn is known as the man who rekindled an interest in the music of

Clara Schumann

A ____ is an instrumental composition in several movements based on literary or pictorial idea

Today's movie scores may be regarded as examples of

Berlioz was extraordinarily imaginative in the orchestra, creating ___ never before heard

Liszt typified the Romantic Movement because

Absolute music is known as

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

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

The founder of Czech national music was

What years did the Romantic period span?

The major portion of Mahler's creative output consists of

Mahler's experiences in New York were not happy because

While deaf, Smetana composed a musical work depicting Bohemia's main river. Name that river!

In the 1830s, Paris was

Schubert's songs number more than

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

The orchestra in the Romantic period

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

Which statement is not true

The composer who was a model for many romantic composers

Mendelssohn wrote in all musical forms except

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

In Puccini's La Boheme, Rodolfo is a young

The rise of the urban middle-class led to the

Music played before & during a play to set mood or highlight dramatic action is

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

Mahler began his professional musical life as

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

Dvorak's Symphony No. 9

Giacomo Puccini, in his operas

A slight slowing down or speeding up of tempo

When music conservatories were founded, women

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

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

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

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

The form of The Erlking is

Liszt created ____, a 1 movement orchestral composition based on a literary or pictorial idea

R. Schumann's Carnaval is a(n)

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

The contrasting episodes of Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony are unified by the theme called

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

In Leipzig, Mendelssohn

Nadezhda von Meck was

Brahms wrote masterpieces in many musical forms, but never any

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

Wagner called his works music dramas rather than operas because

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

Parisians were startled by Berlioz's "Fantastic Symphony" because

T or F: Strongest impact of musical nationalism was felt in Italy, France, Germany, and Austria

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

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

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

Wagner had an opera house built to his own specification in

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

Which of the following statements is NOT true

The 1844 Treatise on Modern Instrumentation and Orchestration was written by

Schubert was

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

Which statement is NOT true

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Dvorak "found a secure basis for a new national (American) musical school" in

Chopin's output is

What statement about R. Schumann is NOT true

Most of Chopin's pieces

Puccini's opera La Boheme takes place in

The German master ____ recommended Dvorak's music to his publisher

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

Outside France, Berlioz enjoyed a great career as a(n)

Instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene

An art song is a musical composition for

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

Liszt's piano works are characterized by

Drawing from inspiration from cultures of lands foreign to the composer is known as

Verdi mainly composed his operas