Music Appreciation Unit 6 - The Romantic Era

Where was the opera house Wagner designed?

In 1830 Berlioz was awarded ______.

Giacomo Puccini's opera La Bohème takes place in ______.

The Ring cycle features gods, giants, and magic, but the opera is really about ______.

In 1892, Dvořák went to ____, where he was director of the National Conservatory of Music.

The major portion of Mahler's creative output consists of ______.

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

The deliberate intent to draw creative inspiration from the composer's own homeland is known as ______.

The librettos to The Ring of the Nibelung were written by ______.

The composer whose career was a model for many romantic composers was ______.

A ___ is a one-mvmt orch. comp. based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea.

Liszt's piano works are characterized by ______.

Berlioz was extraordinarily imaginative in treating the orchestra, creating ____________ never before heard.

Music to be played before and during a play to set the mood is known as ____.

Which of the following statements is not true?

The Fantastic Symphony reflects Berlioz's ______.

Inst. music assoc. with a story, poem, idea, or scene, popular during the romantic period, is called ______.

Mahler's experiences in New York were not happy because _______.

Today's movie scores may be regarded as examples of ______.

Mahler's Songs of the Wayfarer is ____.

What happens at the end of the first act of Wagner's opera Die Walküre?

The liturgical melody in the last mvmt of Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony is the ______.

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

The orchestration in Wagner's operas is _______.

Which of the following was not composed by Tchaikovsky?

Which of the following statements is not true?

Mendelssohn's Concerto for Violin in E Minor opens with a(n) ______.

The soul of a Verdi opera is ______.

Nonprogram music is also known as _____________ music.

The founder of Czech national music was ______.

The word ___________ is commonly used for a romantic art song with a German text.

The name of the river, and Smetana's musical composition, is the ______.

Mussorgsky's piano composition Pictures at an Exhibition was orchestrated by ___.

Siegmund, in Wagner's opera Die Walküre, is ______.

A short musical idea associated with a person, object, or thought is called ___.

Until the age of thirty-six, Franz Liszt toured Europe as a virtuoso ______.

The Erlking, in Schubert's song of that name, is a romantic personification of _______.

Parisians were startled by Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony because of its ______.

When the same music is repeated for two or more stanzas of a poem, leading to new music for other stanzas, the form is…

Music criticism was a source of income for both Hector Berlioz and ______.

A composition for piano, associated with evening and nighttime, is the ______.

Georges Bizet composed _________, one of the most popular and frequently performed operas in the world.

The high point of Mendelssohn's career was the triumphant premiere of his oratorio ___.

In order to support his family, Schumann turned to ______.

The piano's relentless rhythm in Erlkönig (The Erlking) unifies the episodes of the song and suggests the ______.

The strongest impact of musical nationalism was felt in ______.

Who sings the aria Che gelida manina (How cold your little hand is) in La Bohème?

An art song is a composition for ____.

Of all the inspirations for romantic art, none was more important than ______.

Which of the following is not characteristic of romanticism?

The mood of an art song is often summed up at the end by a piano section called a ______.

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

Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto was inspired by ______.

All of the following romantic composers were also virtuoso instrumentalists giving solo recitals except ______.

What is program music?

Clara Wieck was _______.

Wagner was a virtuoso on the

A composer who earned his/her living as a violin virtuoso was ______.

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky ______.

A slight holding back or pressing forward of tempo in music is known as ______.

How did composers express musical nationalism in their music?

Liszt typified the romantic movement because he ______.

A study piece, designed to help a performer master specific technical difficulties, is known as ______.

Berlioz's Fantastic Symph. is unified by the recurrence of a theme, the ______.

What did the rise of the urban middle class lead to?

The composer who developed the symphonic poem was ______.

Mimi and Rodolfo meet for the first time in La Bohème because she has come to his door to ask for a ______.

In Puccini's La Bohème, Rodolfo is a young ______.

Dvořák found a basis for a new national [American] musical school in ______.

The orchestra in the romantic period ________.

The movement in opera known as verismo is best exemplified by ______.

Operas dealing with ordinary people and true-to-life situations, was known as ___.

Which of the following composers is not associated with the romantic period?

The fourth movement of Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony depicts a ______.

The French Revolution and the ___, caused aristocrats to not afford to maintain private opera houses and orchestras

Which of the following is not true of Robert Schumann's works?

Which of the following statements is not true of the romantic art song?

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

The citizen's sense of national identity and patriotic feelings were intensified by ______.

True of False? One of Brahms's musical trademarks is his exotic orchestration.

A __ is an inst. comp. in several mvmts based to some extent on a lit. or pictorial idea.

Romanticism, as a stylistic period in Western music, encompassed the years ______.

Robert Schumann founded and edited the New Journal of Music in order to do what?

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

Antonin Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 ______.

The Habañera and the Toreador Song are two famous arias from which opera?

Schubert's songs number more than ______.

Brahms's works, though very personal in style, are rooted in the music of ______.

Most of Chopin's pieces ______.