Chapters 30 & 31 (Schubert & Chopin) - Enjoyment of Music

Question 1

Chopin is known for creating:

Accepted Answer

the modern piano style

Question 2

Which musical devices does Schubert use to portray the child’s terror in the Elfking?

Accepted Answer

high range and dissonance

Question 3

What is a lied?

Accepted Answer

art song with German text

Question 4

Chopin lived a long and productive life, turning to the church in his later years.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 5

Chopin paid homage to his Polish ancestry by composing:

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mazurkas and polonaises

Question 6

What is the form of Schubert's song Erlking?

Accepted Answer

through-composed form

Question 7

What was the most central instrument in nineteenth-century musical culture?

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the piano

Question 8

The term rubato, associated with Chopin’s music, means:

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take liberties with the tempo

Question 9

Schubert died at a young age from:

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syphilis

Question 10

In Schubert’s Elfking, the obsessive triplet rhythm of the piano accompaniment represents:

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the galloping of the horse

Question 11

How many characters does Schubert depict in the Elfking?

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four

Question 12

The short, lyric piano work is considered the instrumental equivalent to the 19th-century Lied.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 13

Which role did women NOT generally play in Romantic society?

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conductors

Question 14

A group of Lieder unified by a descriptive or narrative theme is known as a:

Accepted Answer

song cycle

Question 15

A song form in which the same melody is repeated for each stanza is known as:

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strophic form

Question 16

A song form that is composed from beginning to end without repetitions of whole sections is:

Accepted Answer

through-composed form

Question 17

Schubert wrote approximately_____ songs.

Accepted Answer

six hundred

Questions 17