Romantic Test

An orchestra toward the end of the romantic period might include close to ______ musicians.

100

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

Carmen

Which statement best describes this excerpt?

Carmen sings an aria, which is answered by the chorus.

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

Ludwig Beethoven

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 ______.

Madame Butterfly and Turandot

The course of Brahms's artistic and personal life was shaped by the influence of the composer(s) _______.

Robert Schumann and his wife Clara

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

Rubato

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

Postlude

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

Richard Wagner

Which statement best characterizes the piano accompaniment?

The rapid rhythms of the piano accompaniment evoke both the storm and the woman's agitation.

Which of the following statements about the excerpt is NOT true?

The rapid, descending nature of the excerpt suggests a mournful disposition.

The marchlike melody features _______.

a complex and rich accompaniment

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

an étude

A very important musical part of every middle-class home during the romantic period was the ______.

piano

This music is a study piece intended to develop the pianist's left hand, as evidenced in this excerpt with ______.

relentless rapid passages in the low register

The orchestration in Wagner's operas is _______.

full and colorful

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

galloping horse

In this selection, the music ______.

grows in intensity and in volume

An art song is a musical composition for ______.

solo voice and piano

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

soloist, who presents the main theme

The form of The Erlking is ______.

through-composed

This excerpt enhances the grotesque dance tune with ______.

tills and ornaments

Johannes Brahms ______.

was a close friend of Clara and Robert Schumann

The orchestra in the romantic period ________.

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

Schubert ______.

was the first great master of the romantic art song

When music conservatories were founded, women ______.

were at first accepted only as students of performance, but by the late 1800s could study musical composition

How many notes make up the rhythmic motive in this melody?

3

Schubert's songs number more than ______.

600

Which description best characterizes the vocal melody?

A breathless vocal melody with short phrases evoking the woman's passion

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

African American spirituals

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

All answers are correct

Which of the following statements is true about the opera, Carmen?

All answers are correct

How is the orchestra used at the beginning of this excerpt?

As a gentle accompaniment to the soloist

Wagner's preeminence was such that an opera house of his own design was built in _________________, solely for performances of his music dramas.

Bayreuth, Germany

Which of the following is not a characteristic aspect of romanticism in literature and painting?

Emotional Restraint

Which statement best describes this excerpt?

Escamillo sings an aria, which is answered by the chorus.

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

Exoticism

How many notes make up the accompaniment during the aria?

Four

Which of the following best describes this music?

German Lied

The texture of this selection is primarily ______.

Homophonic

Which statement is true of this excerpt?

The aria features the tenor most prominently.

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

Napoleonic Wars

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

Nationalism

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

Nature

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

Nocturne

To which genre does this music belong?

Opera

Which genre best describes this music?

Opera

Which of the following best describes the rhythm of the accompaniment in this excerpt?

Relentless triplet rhythm

Which of the following best describes this piece?

Short piano piece

Liszt created the ______________, a one-movement orchestral composition based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea.

Symphonic Poem

Which voice part is featured in this aria?

Tenor

Which statement is true of this excerpt?

This music employs a large orchestra with a wide variety of instruments.

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

Verismo

Nonprogram music is also known as _____________ music.

absolute

The marchlike fanfare in this selection features which group of instruments?

brass

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

death

The soul of a Verdi opera is ______.

expressive vocal melody

The texture of this selection is mostly ______.

homophonic

In this excerpt, the first time we hear the main theme, it is presented by the ______.

horns

The contrasting episodes of Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony are unified by the recurrence of a theme known as the ______.

idée fixe

Music intended to be performed before and during a play to set the mood for scenes or highlight dramatic action is known as ______.

incidental music

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

incidental music

Which of the following best describes this music?

it is a concerto

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

leitmotif

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

lied

The Fantastic Symphony reflects Berlioz's ______.

love for the actress Harriet Smithson

While Wagner's Ring cycle features fantastical elements such as gods, giants, and magic, the opera is really about ______.

nineteenth-century society and culture

In this excerpt, the violin solo gives way to the ______.

orchestra performing the main theme

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

program music

A ____________ is an instrumental composition in several movements based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea.

program symphony

Critics were often scandalized by the subject matter of Verdi's operas because they ______.

seemed to condone rape, suicide, and free love

The rhythmic velocity of this excerpt is provided mainly by the ______.

strings

This music is best described as a ______.

symphony

This fast notes beneath the melody are intended to invoke ______.

the movement of water

This melody is performed mainly by _______.

the pianist's right hand

Altering the character of a melody by changes in dynamics, orchestration, or rhythm is a romantic technique known as ______.

thematic trans

The impassioned river melody is performed here by the ______.

violins

This excerpt begins with the melody presented by the cellos and then repeated by the _______.

violins