Music Appreciation Test #3

At the close of the opera Madame Butterfly, the title character

Brahms maintained a lifelong, close relationship with

Which of the following was a widely beloved nationalist opera composer?

Puccini’s Madame Butterfly is:

The piano manufacturer in New York that made major improvements to the instrument was:

Which of the following was Tchaikovsky’s principal patron?

Italian comic opera is called:

Edvard Grieg was a composer from

Wagner called his operas:

The librettist for Wagner’s music dramas was

Which of the following operas is an example of exoticism?

Which of the following exotic elements can be heard in the opera Madame Butterfly?

The late-Romantic Italian opera tradition was characterized by a movement toward realism called

Which of the following does NOT characterize “La donna è mobile,” from Verdi’s Rigoletto?

The dominant center of ballet in the early nineteenth century was:

The form of the Libera me from Fauré’s Requiem is

Which Verdi opera was commissioned to perform in Cairo to mark the opening of the Suez Canal

A special theater was built at ________ for the presentation of Wagner’s music dramas.

Verismo was a late-Romantic movement in opera that sought to

The keyboard instrument featured in the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, from The Nutcracker is?

Music composed without literary or pictorial meanings is called

Which of the following describes the music of Grieg?

Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique is an example of a

Through which innovation did Theobald Boehm improve musical instruments?

In his Ring of the Nibelung, which characteristic of traditional opera did Wagner eliminate?

Which of the following is NOT an opera from the Ring cycle?

Which of the following composed The Barber of Seville and William Tell?

The ensemble that follows “La donna è mobile” in Act III of Rigoletto is a(n):

Of which genre is Fauré is considered to be a master?

Wagner’s total artwork —music, poetry, drama, visual spectacle- fused together, is called:

The main themes in Wagner’s operas, that recur throughout & carry specific meanings, are called

Which of the following characterizes Grieg’s In the Hall of the Mountain King?

Who dies at the end of Rigoletto?

Morning Mood from Grieg’s Peer Gynt depicts

Wagner’s cycle of four music dramas is called

In Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung, who are the Valkyries?

In Act III, Scene 1 of Die Walküre, what are the Valkyries carrying on their horses?

Brahms wrote ________ symphonies

French composers developed a type of art song called the

Brahms is often described as a(n) __ because of his use of forms establ. by Classical masters

Grieg’s Peer Gynt is:

The most important organizing element in absolute music is:

The term bel canto refers to

What new instrument was developed in the nineteenth century?

Which of the following does NOT characterize Singspiel?

The first movement of a symphony is usually in ________ form

The mood at the end of Libera me from Fauré’s Requiem is

What type of works did Tchaikovsky compose?

Another name for the symphonic poem is:

In her aria “Un bel dì,” from Madame Butterfly, Cio-Cio-San sings of: