The Concert Overture MUL1010 Smartbook Chapter 20

What work was NOT composed by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky?

Má Vlast

What was Nadezhda von Meck's relationship to Tchaikovsky?

Nadezhda von Meck was Tchaikovsky's wealthy benefactress.

hat Tchaikovsky concert overture, composed in 1870, was inspired by a play by William Shakespeare?

Romeo & Juliet

Select all the biographical details that apply to Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Tchaikovsky's marriage to a woman was a failure, partly because of his homosexuality. Tchaikovsky's compositions include three ballets, six symphonies, and eleven operas. Tchaikovsky studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, but taught at the Moscow Conservatory.

Which famous work's theme was used in the Lone Ranger radio programs of the 1930s?

The William Tell overture

Which of the following typically served as an introduction to an opera or other longer work?

an eighteenth-century instrumental overture

Before the romantic period, the concert overture sometimes accompanied a play, a genre known as Blank______ music.

incidental

Prior to the 19th century, the overture had been used primarily as what type of music?

introductory music

Which significant 19th-century concert overture uses cannons and chimes for a dramatic conclusion?

the 1812 Overture

What dramatic element in Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet is represented by Tchaikovsky's intensely agitated first theme, sometimes referred to as the feud theme?

the conflict between the Montague and Capulet families

Which dramatic concept in Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet, is represented by dark, foreboding music at the beginning of Tchaikovsky's overture?

tragic fate