Chapter 46. Poetry in Motion: Tchaikovsky and the Ballet, ch 45 quiz (3), Music Test 2

Which is the best definition of "tempo rubato"?

"Robbed" time

false

"jeanie with the light brown hair" was the most famous of foster's songs during his lifetime.

A lost manuscript of music by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, in her own handwriting, that contained September: At the River was discovered in _____.

1989

Which is NOT a Verdi opera based on a Shakespeare play?

Aida

Which role was NOT generally acceptable for women in Romantic society?

Conductor

What best describes the character of Chopin's Mazurka?

Dancelike

Which of the following does NOT characterize Louis Gottschalk's piano music?

Distinctly European in style

Censors did not concern themselves with political representation in nineteenth-century operas.

False

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel was enthusiastically encouraged to pursue a musical career by her family.

False

Gottschalk began playing piano late in his life.

False

Hector Berlioz invented the symphonic poem.

False

In the twenty-first century, composers do not write nationalistic works.

False

Instrumental music that has some literary or pictorial association is absolute music.

False

Once Adophe Sax developed the saxophone, it became a permanent and popular part of orchestral music.

False

The Romantic symphony follows the exact forms and proportions of the Classical genre of Beethoven.

False

The piano changed little technically during the nineteenth century.

False

The scherzo movement in nineteenth-century symphonies generally is characterized by a slow march tempo.

False

Women in nineteenth-century Europe could not receive training in music.

False

Women played a critical role in music-making activities of the nineteenth century, except as teachers.

False

How many symphonies did Brahms write?

Four

After his conservatory studies, Chopin spent most of his productive career in _____.

France

In the recently discovered manuscript of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's September: At the River, poetry of which nineteenth-century poet was included _____.

Goethe

In his piece The Banjo, how does Gottschalk evoke, musically, the idea of the title?

He simulates banjo strumming and picking on the piano.

In writing Peer Gynt, with which playwright did Grieg collaborate?

Henrik Ibsen

Which of the following did NOT make improved instruments possible in the nineteenth century?

Household electrification

In which country was Franz Liszt born?

Hungary

Which category of program music best describes Grieg's Peer Gynt?

Incidental music

Which of the following is considered the first internationally acclaimed American composer of classical music?

Louis Moreau Gottschalk

In which American city did Louis Gottschalk grow up?

New Orleans

The American debut tour of international singing sensation Jenny Lind was managed by _____.

P.T. Barnum

Instrumental music that has some literary or pictorial association is called _____.

Program music

Tchaikovsky's music for Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is a famous example of _____.

Program overture

Which composer nurtured Brahms's talents, going as far as taking him into his home?

Robert Schumman

Which of these operas exhibited the high point of the singing style known as bel canto?

Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia

Edvard Grieg represents the _____ nationalist school.

Scandinavian

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the nineteenth-century symphony?

Small orchestra with limited winds

Which genre is NOT a part of Chopin's compositional output?

String quartets

The inspiration for Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique was _____.

The actress Harriet Smithson

In which movement is the Dies irae (Day of Wrath) theme from the Mass for the Dead heard?

The fifth

Berlioz was a devoted fan of Beethoven.

True

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel wrote several large-scale works as well as many Lieder.

True

Gottschalk wrote piano works based on North American musical traditions.

True

Gottschalk's The Banjo anticipates the syncopated piano style of ragtime.

True

Hector Berlioz looked to the writings of Shakespeare as the basis for both operas and symphonic works.

True

In the nineteenth century Theobald Boehm improved the flute, making it metal rather than wood.

True

Instrumental music that has some literary or pictorial association is called program music.

True

Liszt was an admirer of the virtuoso violinist, Niccolò Paganini.

True

Nationalistic program music might evoke a landscape.

True

Romantic-era piano works often had fanciful titles.

True

The Romantic symphony featured an orchestra larger than that of the Classical masters.

True

The first movement of a Romantic symphony is usually the most dramatic and features the use of sonata-allegro form.

True

The nineteenth century was an age of great virtuoso pianists.

True

The piano was the most central instrument in nineteenth-century musical culture.

True

The short, lyric piano work might be considered the instrumental equivalent to the nineteenth-century Lied.

True

Unlike the symphonic poem the genre of symphony is often absolute music, without a program.

True

Women in nineteenth-century Europe were expected to have refined musical skills.

True

Which of the following was NOT a way that programmatic composers portrayed nationalistic sentiments in nineteenth-century music?

Utilizing ritornello form

what is the basis for the story of "die walkure"?

a medieval german epic poem

The literary basis for Verdi's Rigoletto is _____.

a play by Victor Hugo

the overall structure of both the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy and the Trepak from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker is best outlined as:

aba

Which best describes the tempo in Tchaikovsky's Trepak from The Nutcracker?

begins

Which new instrument did Tchaikovsky introduce to ballet?

celesta

During which holiday season is Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker performed every year?

christmas

The third movement of a nineteenth-century symphony is most likely in _____ form.

dance or scherzo

Ballet was first featured in Russian opera in the Romantic era.

false

The Nutcracker was based on a story originally written by the Romantic writer Victor Hugo and expanded by E. T. A. Hoffman.

false

germany is noted for its long- established opera traditions. t/f

false

wagner employed recurring themes called "idees fixes" in his operas. t/f

false

Rigoletto is an opera based on Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

false, 250 H

After her husband's composing career began to flourish, Giuseppina Strepponi enjoyed continued success as an opera singer into her last years

false, Strepponi's career faded as her husband Verdi's flourished

Jenny Lind was a famous nineteenth-century composer of opera.

false, she sang operas but did not compose them

homophonic

foster's "jeanie with light brown hair" is primarily composed in what texture?

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

foster's "my old kentucky home" was inspired by ______.

In which countries was nineteenth-century ballet favored as an independent dramatic form?

france russia

which term refers to wagner's concept of a total artwork, encompassing all the arts?

gesamtkunstwerk

Brahms wrote his Requiem mass in memory of _____.

his mother

The main theme, heard transformed in each movement of Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, is called the _____.

idée fixe

Which best describes the dynamics in Tchaikovsky's Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from The Nutcracker?

mezzo

what did wagner call his large-scale sung theatrical works?

music drama

false

music in 18th and early 19th century america was wildly divergent from european traditions.

Chopin was romantically involved with George Sand, the renowned French _____.

novelist

After her marriage, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel was responsible for _____.

organizing the family Sunday salon concerts

Nedezhda von Meck's relationship with Tchaikovsky was that of his:

patron

The concept of "river" in September: At the River by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel is expressed by _____.

quick moving notes that accompany the melody

In the nineteenth century, opera excerpts were NOT marketed to domestic consumers via _____.

radio broadcasts (NOT four-hand piano arrangements, wind band medleys, or voice and guitar arrangements)

Tchaikovsky was a famous composer from __________.

russia

light german opera featuring spoken dialogue is called ____.

singspiel

Ballet has been a part of theatrical entertainments since the Renaissance.

true

Giuseppe Verdi viewed himself as an Italian nationalist composer.

true

Nineteenth-century Italian opera is characterized by the use of the bel canto style of singing.

true

Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker was choreographed by Marius Petipa.

true

The pas de deux, or dance for two, was developed by the choreographer Marius Petipa.

true

after considerable success in dresden withe "rienzi", wagner began to choose subjects derived from germanic tales. t/f

true

the role of the valkyries was to carry fallen heroes from the battlefield to valhalla on the winged horses. t/f

true

wagner had a theater built at Bayreuth specifically for the performance of his music dramas. t/f

true

In the second act of Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker

visit land sweet

.Tchaikovsky was the first Russian:

whose

which leitmotif did wagner not use in the closing scene of act 3 in "die walkure"?

zoroaster