MUSI 2733

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Rags, like marches, are structured in regular, duple-meter sections known as _____, each of which is usually repeated.

strains

Every town in Italy, no matter how small, has a

street bearing Verdi's name.

What were the themes of verismo operas?

subjects from everyday life

Symbolist poetry gave French song composers the opportunity to explore

subtlety and ambiguity.

Which genre describes Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?

symphonic poem

The overall form of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" is

ternary (A-B-A').

Nadezhda von Meck's arrangement with Tchaikovsky had one stipulation

that they never meet.

In the aria "La donna è mobile" the Duke sings

that women are fickle.

In 1880, Sousa became the director of

the U.S. Marine Band.

When was the Harlem Renaissance?

the early part of the twentieth century

Which describes the character of Wotan?

the father of the gods

Impressionist painters were NOT interested in

the grandiosity of Romantic art.

The lyrics to Swing Low, Sweet Chariot concern

the prophet Elijah taken up to heaven by a chariot of fire.

Impressionist painters

tried to capture the freshness of their first impressions on canvas.

After Puccini's death in 1924, opera gradually became displaced in the popular imagination by other musical-theatrical traditions.

true

At the turn of the 1800s camp meetings in the United States were not segregated by cultural background.

true

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

true

Ballet was part of the court of Louis XIV.

true

Burleigh's arrangement of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot calls upon jazz and blues traditions.

true

Contemporary film composer John Williams uses Wagner's musical foreshadowing devices in the Star Wars movies.

true

Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, was established as a college for freed slaves.

true

Giuseppe Verdi is viewed as an Italian nationalist composer.

true

In a two-year period, Verdi lost his son, daughter, and wife.

true

In his Requiem, Fauré included nonstandard versions of traditional liturgical texts.

true

In the late nineteenth century, France, Germany, and Italy developed distinct national styles.

true

Late Romantic ideals carried into the twentieth century through Italian operatic tradition.

true

Many Romantic composers looked to faraway lands or cultures for their opera plots.

true

Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly focuses on the heroine, a former geisha.

true

Ragtime was originally a piano style that featured highly syncopated melodies.

true

Scott Joplin is one of the first African American composers to receive widespread recognition.

true

Scott Joplin recorded some of his piano rags himself, which were preserved on punched-paper rolls made in 1910 on a Steinway player piano.

true

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot became a favorite tune of which college-level performing group?

Fisk Jubilee Singers

Ballet was featured in operas by _____ composers.

French

The Valkyrie is sung in which language?

German

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

Gesamtkunstwerk

Which opera composer is associated with the verismo movement?

Giacomo Puccini

In Verdi's opera, who is Rigoletto's daughter?

Gilda

Which celebrated Italian singer married Giuseppe Verdi and helped to launch his career?

Giuseppina Strepponi

Who of the following is NOT considered a Symbolist poet?

Goethe

Art-song arrangements of African American spirituals were an important part of which cultural movement?

Harlem Renaissance

Which is NOT something that Harry T. Burleigh accomplished?

He directed the Fisk Jubilee Singers for the last ten years of his life.

How did Joplin achieve financial security with the publication of Maple Leaf Rag?

He insisted on receiving royalties rather than a flat payment.

Which statement does NOT apply to Impressionist composers?

Impressionist composers often made use of a strongly accented meter.

Which is a true statement regarding the saxophone?

It was invented by the Belgian Adolphe Sax.

Madame Butterfly is sung in what language?

Italian

The opera Madame Butterfly is set in

Japan.

Which composer is often referred to as the "March King"?

John Philip Sousa

Early in his career, Verdi wrote for which opera house?

La Scala in Milan

In which language is Fauré's Libera me from Requiem written?

Latin

________ commissioned Wagner to complete the Ring cycle and helped to finance a theater dedicated to the performance of Wagner's music.

Ludwig II of Bavaria

______ is perhaps the best-known rag ever composed.

Maple Leaf Rag

Tchaikovsky's three ballets were all choreographed by

Marius Petipa.

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

P. T. Barnum.

The Impressionist movement began in which city?

Paris

Which does NOT contribute to the exoticism in Puccini's Madame Butterfly?

Puccini is Japanese.

The Fisk Jubilee Singers were introduced to Swing Low, Sweet Chariot by

Reverend Alexander Reid.

Which of the following was NOT a famous ballet written by Tchaikovsky?

Romeo and Juliet

Operas by which composer exhibited the high point of bel canto opera?

Rossini

Tchaikovsky was a famous ______ composer.

Russian

Which composer is often referred to as the "King of Ragtime"?

Scott Joplin

Which does not describe the character Cio-Cio-San?

She is Butterfly's maid.

Which is NOT true of Verdi?

Verdi died suddenly at a young age and was unable to fulfill his artistic genius.

______ is one of the most frequently performed operas in the repertoire.

Verdi's Rigoletto

Who wrote the libretto to Wagner's The Valkyrie?

Wagner

How was the Ring cycle received by the nineteenth-century public?

Wagnerian gospel spread across Europe as new art-religion

Which is NOT part of the storyline in Wagner's Ring cycle?

Wotan puts a curse on a gold ring.

What is the historical setting for Rigoletto?

a Renaissance-era Italian court

A musical setting of the Mass for the Dead is called

a Requiem.

Rigoletto, the title character in Verdi's opera, is

a court jester

The plot in Rigoletto centers around

a curse put on the character Rigoletto.

Scott Joplin's father was

a former slave.

The theme that carries specific meanings, suggesting in a few notes a character, an emotion, an idea, or an object is called

a leitmotif.

What is the basis for the story of The Valkyrie?

a medieval German epic poem

The program for Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" concerns

a mythological creature in a dreamlike state.

The literary basis for Verdi's Rigoletto is

a play by Victor Hugo.

Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" does NOT feature

accented rhythmic drive.

Puccini found his inspiration for Madame Butterfly

after attending a performance of David Belasco's play.

Verdi's compositional style is marked by

appealing melodies and intense dramatic situations.

How was dissonance viewed by Impressionist composers?

as a goal in itself, freed from the need to resolve

Butterfly sings the famous aria, "Un bel dì" ("One beautiful day")

as she dreams of Pinkerton's return

The _____ style is characterized by florid melodic lines delivered by voices of great agility and purity of tone.

bel canto

Which of the following describes the celesta?

bell-like timbre

Which new instrument did Tchaikovsky introduce to ballet?

celesta

Which of the following instruments was NOT used by Fauré to create memorable "celestial" sounds?

celesta

What describes Wagner's harmonic language?

chromatic

Which describes the character of the opening theme of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?

chromatic and languorous

At the end of the opera Gilda

dies in Rigoletto's arms.

Ragtime is typically in _____ meter.

duple

Symbolist poets sought to

evoke images through suggestion.

Which is NOT an element of Wagner's "leading motives"?

explanations of the motives are stated in a printed program provided by Wagner

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

false

Fauré's intention in writing his Requiem was to show death as "a painful experience."

false

Germany is noted for its long-established opera traditions.

false

Spirituals fell out of circulation after the Civil War in the United States.

false

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot was originally composed in the first decade of the twentieth century.

false

Tchaikovsky lived and worked mostly in Paris.

false

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

false

The style and structure of African American spirituals were in strict imitation of European models.

false

The verismo movement focused on the imaginative and fantastic.

false

The hazy, dreamy quality of Impressionism is captured in the opening of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" through the use of which instruments?

flute and harp

In Madame Butterfly, you can hear the orchestra evoking the timbres of which Japanese ensemble?

gagaku

Women that were highly trained in the arts of classical music, poetry, and dancing, and were easily recognizable by their lacquered black hair, distinctive makeup, and ornate silk kimono are called

geishas.

Why did Fauré resign in 1920 as the director of the Paris Conservatory?

growing deafness

Which does NOT describe Fauré's compositions?

highly influenced and inspired by Wagner

Impressionism in music took place

in the late 1800s.

What was an Italian precursor to ballet?

intermedio

Which of the following is NOT a stylistic element of Impressionist music?

large-scale forms

What specific musical technique did Puccini borrow from Wagner in his Madame Butterfly?

leitmotifs

The texture of African American spirituals is best described as

monophonic with some heterophonic elaboration.

How long did Fauré work on his Requiem?

more than twenty years

What did Wagner call his operas?

music dramas

The French song genre that paralleled the German Lied in the nineteenth century was the

mélodie.

What is one example of daring new tone combinations explored by Impressionist composers?

ninth chord

Which of the following does NOT describe the style of ragtime?

no repetition within a rag

Fauré's career included all of the following positions except:

orchestral conductor.

Impressionism began as a movement in

painting.

What did the choreographer Marius Petipa invent?

pas de deux

Nadezhda von Meck's relationship with Tchaikovsky was that of his

patron.

Which scale is used in Swing Low, Sweet Chariot?

pentatonic

Greater subtlety and expressive ambiguity in Impressionist music were achieved through all of the following EXCEPT:

percussive dissonance.

Ragtime was originally composed for what instrumentation?

piano

Before recorded music was widespread, music like the rags of Scott Joplin could be mechanically performed by

player pianos

Ragtime was NOT

popular until mid-twentieth century.

At the turn of the twentieth century, a movement called _____ reflected an expansion and intensification of late-Romantic trends.

post-Romanticism

Fauré's Requiem

premiered in Paris for the funeral of a well-known architect.

In the nineteenth century, opera excerpts were NOT marketed to domestic consumers through

radio broadcasts.

Sousa is credited with bringing _____ to European audiences during his first European tour in 1900.

ragtime

Which does NOT describe the device that enables us to hear Scott Joplin's rendition of Maple Leaf Rag?

recorded on a wax cylinder

A leitmotif is a

recurring melodic theme that carries specific meaning.

The Libera me movement of Fauré's Requiem closes

serenely.

Fauré's original ensemble plan for his Requiem was a(n)

small chamber orchestra minus violins.

Which genre describes Swing Low, Sweet Chariot?

spiritual

What is the translation of "requiem"?

"rest"

How many music dramas make up Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung?

4

What is the Second Great Awakening?

A Christian movement of the early 1800s.

America's vernacular traditions include

All possible answers

After Pinkerton returns, Butterfly

All possible answers.

Beyond ballet, Tchaikovsky was also a noted composer of

All possible answers.

How does Puccini's score for Madame Butterfly evoke exoticism?

All possible answers.

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot reflects which of the following traditions?

All possible answers.

Wagner's operas are considered nationalistic because they

All possible answers.

What did spirituals include that made them politically subversive?

All possible answers.

Which composer helped carry late-Romantic ideas into the twentieth century?

All possible answers.

Which describes Wagner's "endless melody"?

All possible answers.

Which describes the melodies in Maple Leaf Rag?

All possible answers.

Which describes the ring shout?

All possible answers.

Which elements are present in Wagner's operas?

All possible answers.

Which of the following describes the character Rigoletto?

All possible answers.

Which of the following relates to Debussy's use of the orchestra in comparison with Romantic composers?

All possible answers.

Which is true of Debussy's career and compositional output?

All statements are true.

Which is true of the Libera me movement from Fauré's Requiem?

All statements are true.

Which statement describes the activities of the Fisk Jubilee Singers?

All statements are true.

_______ is the theater dedicated to the performance of Wagner's operas.

Festival Theater at Bayreuth

From whose rule did Italy seek to liberate itself?

Austrian Hapsburgs

Who of the following was a French Romantic composer encountered in an earlier chapter?

Berlioz

Whom does Wotan put in a magic sleep in The Valkyrie?

Brünnhilde

Tchaikovsky conducted at the inaugural concert of which famous concert hall?

Carnegie Hall, New York City

During what time of year is The Nutcracker usually performed?

Christmas

The term "Impressionism" was taken from a work by the painter

Claude Monet.

At which point in the Libera me does the choir sing fortissimo?

Dies irae text

The Nutcracker is based on a fanciful story by

E. T. A. Hoffmann.

Both Puccini and Mahler had a strong fascination with which culture?

Eastern

Which American poet strongly influenced the poems of the French poets Stéphane Mallarmé and Paul Verlaine?

Edgar Allan Poe

Which of the following is an opera by Tchaikovsky?

Eugene Onegin

Puccini's brief reference to The Star-Spangled Banner during the opening of Act I of Madame Butterfly is an example of his nationalism.

False

Which is NOT true of Fauré's use of text in his Requiem?

Fauré used only the specified texts and prayers prescribed by the Catholic Church for the Requiem Mass.

Light German opera featuring spoken dialogue is called

Singspiel

Which describes camp meetings?

Special gatherings popular in nineteenth-century America where songs of worship were sung.

A pastoral poem by the Symbolist writer _______ inspired Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun."

Stéphane Mallarmé

French Romantic-era song composers were drawn to the poets of which movement?

Symbolist

Who were Charles Baudelaire, Stéphane Mallarmé, and Paul Verlaine?

Symbolist poets

Where was Scott Joplin born?

Texarkana, Texas

The text of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot is based on a story from what source?

The Holy Bible

Which recent movie was based on some of the same material as The Ring of the Nibelung?

The Lord of the Rings

Which statement is NOT true?

The Nutcracker was Tchaikovsky's only ballet NOT choreographed by Marius Petipa.

Which American patriotic song is referenced by Puccini in Madame Butterfly?

The Star-Spangled Banner

_____ is one of Sousa's most well-known marches.

The Stars and Stripes Forever

Which is NOT true of the ring in Wagner's Ring cycle?

The ring is only symbolic and not a real object.

Why is there a musical reference to The Star-Spangled Banner in Madame Butterfly?

The title character marries an American naval officer.

Which is NOT true of Fauré's Requiem?

There is only one version of this work.

Scott Joplin won the Pulitzer Prize posthumously for

Treemonisha.

Which movement of The Nutcracker is based on a Russian dance?

Trepak

Symbolism was the literary equivalent of Impressionism.

True

Which Russian dancer choreographed the ballet version of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?

Vaslav Nijinksy

Sousa created, nearly single-handedly, a national music for America that continues to resonate in its concert halls, on its streets, in its sports stadiums, and in the hearts of its people.

true

Tchaikovsky struggled with attacks of depression.

true

The Fisk arrangement of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot is strophic.

true

The French Romantic mélodie parallels the German Lied tradition.

true

The French mélodie was inspired by the songs of Schubert.

true

The intensity of Verdi's compositions and the potential for some of the stories to be read as calls for liberation made him a figurehead of the Italian unification movement.

true

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

true

The patterns of repetition and clear-cut sections in Joplin's rags are reminiscent of those heard in Sousa marches.

true

The role of the Valkyries was to carry fallen heroes from the battlefield to Valhalla on their winged horses.

true

The singing of spirituals offered the slave community a sense of solidarity.

true

The term "Impressionism" was originally one of derision in academic circles.

true

Opera seria and opera buffa continued to be performed in Italy during the nineteenth century.

ture

Publishers in the nineteenth century worked closely with composers on licensing and other commercial ventures.

ture

The nineteenth-century trend toward realism in opera was known as

verismo.

Spirituals (devotional songs)

were sung by African Americans at camp meetings for freed slaves.

Tchaikovsky was the first Russian

whose music appealed to Western tastes.


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