Quiz 5 Romanticism

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Question #1

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

A rhythms

B tone colors

C forms

D harmonies

Question #2

The Fantastic Symphony reflects Berlioz’s

A love for the actress Harriet Smithson.

B experiences in Rome.

C interest in composing for small, intimate ensembles.

D intense nationalism.

Question #3

Today’s movie scores may be regarded as examples of

A pure music.

B incidental music.

C folk music.

D absolute music.

Question #4

Instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene, popular during the romantic period, is called

A opera.

B symphony.

C program music.

D absolute music.

Question #5

Program music is

A instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene.

B vocal music that tells a story.

C music that depicts aspects of nature.

D All answers are correct.

Question #6

Liszt abandoned his career as a traveling virtuoso to become court conductor at __________, where he championed works by contemporary composers.

A Paris

B Budapest

C Weimar

D Rome

Question #7

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

A conductor.

B cellist.

C pianist.

D All answers are correct.

Question #8

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

A verismo.

B exoticism.

C nationalism.

D program music.

Question #9

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

A ein lied.

B an etude.

C a polonaise.

D a nocturne.

Question #10

Chopin’s Revolutionary Étude develops the pianist’s left hand because

A the left hand must play rapid passages throughout.

B the left hand plays the main melody.

C it takes nearly an hour to perform.

D it is played only by the left hand.

Question #11

A slow, lyrical, intimate composition for piano, associated with evening and nighttime, is the

A etude.

B nocturne.

C waltz.

D mazurka.

Question #12

Most of Chopin’s pieces

A have a limited variety of moods.

B are for a wide range of media.

C are exquisite miniatures.

D have literary programs or titles.

Question #13

While in Paris, Chopin

A gave a great number of successful public concerts.

B earned a good living by teaching piano to the daughters of the rich.

C married the famous writer Aurore Dudevant.

D All answers are correct.

Question #14

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

A approach of death.

B joy of the child.

C steadiness of the father.

D galloping horse.

Question #15

Schubert wrote compositions in every musical genre except

A operas.

B string quartets.

C piano concertos.

D symphonies.

Question #16

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

A chanson

B ballade

C durchkomponiert

D lied

Question #17

An art song is a musical composition for

A multiple voices.

B solo voice and piano.

C All answers are correct.

D solo voice and orchestra.

Question #18

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

A Robert Schumann.

B Frédéric Chopin.

C Niccolò Paganini.

D Clara Schumann.

Question #19

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

A Hector Berlioz.

B Franz Schubert.

C Frédéric Chopin.

D Franz Liszt.

Question #20

Which of the following is not characteristic of romanticism?

A A fascination with fantasy

B An emphasis on balance and clarity of structures

C An interest in exoticism and the past

D An enthusiasm for the culture of the Middle Ages

Question #21

Because of the French Revolution and the __________________, many aristocrats could no longer afford to maintain private opera houses, orchestras, and “composers in residence”.

A French and Indian War

B Napoleonic Wars

C American Revolution

D wages of skilled performers

Question #22

Valhalla, in Wagner’s Ring cycle, is

A a city in New York State.

B the home of Siegfried.

C Wotan’s castle.

D the magic ring.

Question #23

The orchestration in Wagner’s operas is

A subservient to the singers.

B limited to only the string section.

C light and simple.

D full and colorful.

Question #24

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

A speech-song.

B unending melody.

C lied.

D leitmotif.

Question #25

The librettos to The Ring of the Nibelung were written by

A Richard Wagner

B King Ludwig of Bavaria.

C Hans von Bülow.

D Arrigo Boito.

Question #26

Which of the following operas was not composed by Richard Wagner?

A Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

B Fidelio

C Tristan and Isolde

D Parsifal

Question #27

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

A rubato.

B fermata.

C accelerando.

D ritardando.

Question #28

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

A Johann Sebastian Bach.

B Johannes Brahms.

C Hector Berlioz.

D Ludwig van Beethoven.

Question #29

Wagner had an opera house built to his own specifications in

A Munich.

B Weimar.

C Bayreuth.

D Dresden.

Question #30

Some of Puccini’s operas feature exoticism, as in his use of melodic and rhythmic elements derived from Japanese and Chinese music in his operas

A Tosca and Turandot.

B Madame Butterfly and Turandot.

C Turandot and Manon Lescaut.

D La Bohème and Madame Butterfly.

Question #31

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

A The piano’s hammers were covered with felt.

B A cast-iron frame was introduced to hold the strings under greater tension.

C The piano’s range remained basically the same as in the classical period.

D The use of the damper pedal allowed a sonorous blend of tones from all registers of the piano.

Question #32

The movement in opera known as verismo is best exemplified by

A Richard Wagner.

B Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

C Giacomo Puccini.

D Claudio Monteverdi.

Question #33

An artistic trend of the 1890s, in which operas dealt with ordinary people and true-to-life situations, was known as

A Cavalleria rusticana.

B exoticism.

C opera seria.

D verismo.

Question #34

Which of the following operas was not composed by Giacomo Puccini?

A Madame Butterfly

B Tosca

C Falstaff

D Turandot

Question #35

Giacomo Puccini’s first successful opera was

A Madame Butterfly.

B Manon Lescaut.

C La Bohème.

D Turandot.

Question #36

The famous aria La donna è mobile is taken from Verdi’s opera

A Falstaff.

B Il Trovatore.

C Rigoletto.

D Aïda.

Question #37

Verdi studied music in _________, the city where Italy’s most important opera house, La Scala, is located.

A Venice

B Florence

C Rome

D Milan

Question #38

Brahms’s works, though very personal in style, are rooted in the music of

A Ludwig van Beethoven.

B All answers are correct.

C Joseph Haydn.

D Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Question #39

Brahms wrote masterpieces in many musical forms, but never any

A operas.

B chamber music.

C art songs.

D choral works.

Question #40

The course of Brahms’s artistic and personal life was shaped by the influence of the composer

A Richard Wagner.

B Franz Liszt.

C Robert Schumann and his wife Clara.

D Antonin Dvořák.

Question #41

The orchestra in the romantic period

A ranged from twenty to sixty players.

B was larger and more varied in tone color than the classical orchestra.

C had a limited dynamic range due to the primitive nature of the brass instruments.

D was basically the same as in the classical period.

Question #42

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

A Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

B César Cu

C Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

D Modest Mussorgsky

Question #43

Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony

A was left unfinished by the composer.

B ends with a slow, despairing finale.

C has five movements.

D is in the usual four-movement form.

Question #44

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

A was a child prodigy, learning music at an early age.

B preferred his government position to music.

C studied music theory and violin as a teenager.

D began to study music theory at the age of twenty-one.

Question #45

The strongest impact of musical nationalism was felt in

A Russia.

B Poland and Bohemia.

C the Scandinavian countries.

D All answers are correct.

Question #46

The citizen’s sense of national identity and patriotic feelings were intensified by

A military resistance to Napoleon.

B romanticism, which glorified love for one’s national heritage.

C All answers are correct.

D common bonds of language, culture, and history.

Question #47

Composers expressed musical nationalism in their music by

A basing their music on the folk songs of their country.

B All answers are correct.

C using their national legends as subject matter.

D using the rhythms of the dances of their homelands.

Question #48

Romanticism, as a stylistic period in western music, encompassed the years

A 1820-1900

B 1450-1600

C 1750-1820

D 1600-1750

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