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Music History: Romantic Era
Music History: Romantic Era
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For 7th & 8th grade Choir, reviewing the Romantic Era of music history
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1
what was the name for non-religious songs that were easy enough for an amateur choir
requiem
rubato
part-songs
lieder
2
who used cannons in his "1812 Overture" to celebrate Russia's victory over Napoleon?
Liszt
Berlioz
Rachmaninoff
Tchaikovsky
3
Who wrote songs based on Norwegian legends?
Rachmaninoff
Bizet
Sibelius
Grieg
4
Who was the "Waltz King"?
Ludwig van Beethoven
Johannes Brahms
Richard Wagner
Johann Strauss
5
Who ushered in the passion of the Romantic style?
Beethoven
Tchaikovsky
Chopin
Mendelssohn
6
a religious service for the dead, musical prayer for them to rest in peace
Requiem
Cantabile
Maestoso
Lieder
7
Who used gypsy music from Hungary as the basis for his compositions?
Frederic Chopin
Franz Liszt
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Bedrich Smetana
8
Who was the most famous Italian opera composer of this era?
Rossini
Vivaldi
Puccini
Verdi
9
what did Romantic composers most want their music to do?
express emotion
cause revolutions
make money
make them famous
10
Who wrote the Nutcracker Ballet music?
Beethoven
Rachmaninoff
Tchaikovsky
Mendelssohn
11
what musical term allows the performer to speed up or slow down?
lieder
dynamics
rubato
program music
12
unlike Baroque composers, Romantic composers:
were "stars", not servants
died wealthy
worked for aristocrats/nobles
used fewer dynamics
13
who wrote a symphony for 1000 performers?
Gustav Mahler
Richard Wagner
Clara Schumann
Ludwig van Beethoven
14
What super-star violinist was so good people thought he'd made a deal with the devil?
Paganini
Rossini
Vivaldi
Verdi
15
Which Frenchman developed the dreamy musical style of Impressionism?
Debussy
Bizet
Saint-Saens
Faure
16
Who wrote the New World Symphony?
Dvorak
Rossini
Rachmaninoff
Beethoven
17
Whose songs captured the spirit of the South, but he died in poverty?
Hugo Wolff
Stephen Foster
Hector Berlioz
Ralph Vaughan Williams
18
How were Romantic compositions different from the Classical era?
all of the above
specific terms as to how it should be played
extremes of dynamics
more changes of tempo
19
what was the most popular entertainment during the Romantic era?
opera
program music
television
movies
20
who was the first inventor to record sound?
Karl Benz
Walt Disney
Thomas Edison
Benjamin Franklin
21
Whose music influenced the later music for Star Wars?
Scott Joplin
Fanny Mendelssohn
Stephen Foster
Gustav Holst
22
Which of the following was NOT a composer of piano music?
Rossini
Rachmaninoff
Chopin
Joplin
23
Romantic-era music was not just about love, but also about which of these?
national legends
nature
fantasy
all of the above
24
a musician whose technical skill is far better than others, a musical "super-star"
critic
conservatory
patroness
virtuoso
25
Who was the first woman composer to go public?
Aurore Dudevant
Clara Schumann
Fanny Mendelssohn
Emily Bronte
26
Who wrote an "opera cycle" of 4 operas based on German legends?
Richard Strauss
Johann Strauss
Edvard Grieg
Richard Wagner
27
Whose music was later used as the theme for "2001: A Space Odyssey"?
Richard Strauss
Gustav Holst
Stephen Foster
Johann Strauss
28
who wrote a huge Requiem for France's war dead?
Tchaikovsky
Berlioz
Picasso
Faure
29
what musical development was Beethoven's idea, as in his ninth symphony?
rubato
lieder
adding choir to orchestra
requiem
30
Who was the March King, producing patriotic songs for bands?
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Stephen Foster
John Phillip Sousa
Scott Joplin
31
The German term for an "art song" for vocalist and piano
Lieder
Requiem
Virtuoso
Conservatory
32
What philosophy promoted cultural identity in music?
Darwinism
Communism
Nationalism
Enlightenment
33
Who began the Romantic form of opera?
Verdi
Rossini
Wagner
Puccini
34
what African-American composer developed "Ragtime"?
John Williams
Will Smith
John Phillip Sousa
Scott Joplin
35
who wrote over 600 lieder?
Franz Schubert
Felix Mendelssohn
George Bizet
Clara Schumann
