Music History Exam 2
The Fantastic Symphony reflects Berlioz's:
Love for the actress Harriet Smithson
Wagner saw himself as the true successor of:
Ludwig van Beethoven
The fourth movement of Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony depicts a:
March to the Scaffold
For which famous choreographer and dancer did Copland write "Appalachian Spring"?
Martha Graham
Which of the following is NOT true?
Rossini uses his "Crescendo" sparingly
Who persuaded Haydn to come to London?
Salomon
Mozart was born in 1756 in________. He died and was buried in _________.
Salzburg, Austria and Vienna, Austria
In Variation 3, which of the following is NOT true?
The tune is played in a pianissimo fashion
In the exposition of a sonata-form movement
The second theme is in a new key when compared to the first theme
In the recapitulation of a sonata-form movement
The second theme is in a new key; but this time it correspondes to the tonic key of the movement
Which of the following is NOT true
The second theme returns in the recapitulation of a 'sonata form' movement in an exact repetition of its statement in the exposition
Which of the following characteristics does not apply to Impressionistic music?
The use of classical forms, such as sonata allegro or Rondo form
The usual order of movements in a classical symphony is
fast, slow, dance-related, fast.
What was Nijinksi's profession?
Choreographer
Beethoven stopped performing because:
He went deaf
The 5th variation of section 7 "Simple Gifts" has a klopping horse and buggy sound.
False
Das Jahr, a series of character pieces on the twelve months inspired by an extended trip to Italy, was composed by:
Fanny Mendelssohn (Hensel)
Which of the following is TRUE about Fanny Mendelssohn?
Fanny ran a private salon on Sunday afternoons from her home.
A typical sequence of movements in a classical concerto is
Fast, slow, fast
Is a baby deer a "faun" or a "fawn"?
Fawn
What instrument plays the opening to 'Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun', and who wrote the poem Debussy's music was written for?
Flute; Stéphane Mallarmé
For what habit was Rossini NOT criticized?
For his jealousy of other composers
Wagner's term for the union of all the arts in a drama is_____:
Gesamtkunstwerk
Which composer inspired Haydn's oratorios?
Handel
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Haydn's music?
Haydn's music is monochromatic: few changes in texture and orchestration.
Why did Mozart frequently not write out the cadenzas for his piano concertos that he performed?
He could hear the cadenza in his head, and if he wrote it down possibly someone would steal it
The contrasting episodes of Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony are unified by the recurrence of a theme known as the:
Idée fixe
What was Diaghilev's profession?
Impresario
Debussy was a French composer who was one of the founders of the __________ movement in music and also one of its most important representatives
Impressionism
Which of the following is NOT true?
In his later years, Mozart was financially well off, widely acclaimed, and sought after by an adoring public.
Wagner's Tristan und Isolde was influential because_______
It used ambiguous harmony that stretched the limits of tonality
'Scherzo' means:
Joke
While working for Prince Esterhazy Haydn's job was called:
Kapellmeister
Wagner referred to reoccurring musical themes associated with specific characters, things, ideas, emotions or plot elements as:
Leitmotivs
Schubert wrote around 615 ______:
Lieder or Art Songs
Haydn's last symphonies were composed for___?
London
Mozart wrote his first symphony in 1764 in this city:
London
Which best describes the psychological progression of Symphony No. 5 in C Minor?
a heroic struggle with Fate, starting out stormily and ending triumphantly
Haydn wrote two oratorios of his own after having been inspired in London by Handel's oratorios. The two were called:
'The Creation' and 'The Seasons'
Which parts are normally the villain (male) or tortured/evil female?
'Verdi Baritone' and Alto/Contralto
Stravinsky was born in:
1882
Please select the number of movements, and the movements' corresponding tempos, commonly associated with the Concerto:
3 mvts; Fast, slow, fast
Please select the number of movements, and the movements' corresponding tempos, commonly associated with the sonata:
3 mvts; Fast, slow, fast
After the Simple Gifts theme is played in Copland's Appalachian Spring, Section 7, how many variations of Simple Gifts occur?
4
Please select the number of movements, and the movements' corresponding tempos, commonly associated with the String Quartet:
4 mvts; Fast, slow, dance-related, fast
Please select the number of movements, and the movements' corresponding tempos, commonly associated with the Symphony:
4 mvts; Fast, slow, dance-related, fast
Compared to the modern piano, Mozart's piano had ______ keys.
61
Which of the following is not a characteristic of Impressionistic music?
8 bar phrases and regular authentic cadences
The first movement of Symphony No. 5 in C Minor is dominated by a repeated:
A Motive: perhaps signaling 'Fate'
The premier of The Rite of Spring 1913 provoked ______________________ among the audience.
A Riot (Scandal)
What is a Song cycle?
A collection of songs (perhaps like a "concept album") on a single theme
What does Through-composed mean?
A composition that has no obvious repetition
Der Ring des Nibelungen is ________
A cycle of four music dramas by Wagner
Sonata form should be viewed as
A set of principles that serve to shape and unify contrasts of theme and key.
Which of the following is a Schubertiade?
A social gathering featuring the music of Franz Schubert
What is a Ballade ?
A specific type of narrative poetry that usually tells a sad story with an unhappy ending
What is a strophic text?
A text constructed of a series of stanzas or strophes
The theme played at the beginning of Section 7 of Appalachian Spring is the tune Simple Gifts. This tune consists of four phrases. What best describes the form of the tune?
ABXB
Which is true of Clara Schumann's concert life?
After Robert died she rather consistently presented herself as her husband's muse, often wearing black (the color of mourning)
Which of the following is NOT true:
After Rossini retired from writing operas, he went into politics
Stravinsky in the 1955 film, describes Diaghilev (the Impresario's) stunned and worried reaction when he first heard on the piano the beginning of Sacre du Printemps (consisting of 59 violent, dissonant chord repetitions) of Stravinsky's new ballet. Yet when that same Ballet caused a riot in the Theater on the premiere, Diaghilev was "delighted". Which of the following is true?
All answers are correct
The Heldentenor is which of the following:
All answers are correct
To move forward from the first theme (or the first theme group) in sonata-allegro form, a composer will usually incorporate a:
All answers are correct
Verdi is attracted to dramatic situations in which the characters are:
All answers are correct
Which is not part of the recipe for an extended Rossini crescendo?
All answers are correct
Which of the following is true of the court battle between Clara and her Father?
All answers are correct
Which of these were factors that contributed to the riot at the Premiere of the Rite of Spring?
All answers are correct
In Variation 5, which of the following is NOT true?
All of these
Which of the following statements is TRUE of Fanny Mendelssohn (Hensel)?
All statements are true
Aaron Copland's goal was to write music in a true ___________ style.
American
Which best describes the early nineteenth-century concept of the artist as exemplified by Beethoven?
An inspired soul who suffered to deliver art to humanity
Which comes closest to describing the tempo of the second movement of Symphony No. 5 in C Minor?
Andante
Schubert is considered the father of the Lied, which is the German term for what is known in English as:
Art song
"Appalachian Spring" was the music for a:
Ballet
Haydn's patron asked him to compose chamber music for which instrument?
Baryton
The name of the town in which Wagner constructed a theatre for his music dramas.
Bayreuth
Where was Wagner's Ring Cycle first performed in its entirety?
Bayreuth
Which of the following statements is NOT true?
Berlioz's reputation outside France was even lower than it was in his homeland
Primitivism was:
Both are true
Much of the portrayal of Mozart in the film Amadeus is an erroneous fictionalization. But the final scene in this segment (Segment 12.5) accurately depicts him as an individual with an extraordinary (select two of the following).
Capacity to remember and reproduce music on just one hearing Capacity to improvise on a musical idea that he had just heard
According to most sources, Beethoven's personal life was:
Chaotic and lonely
Which solo instrument plays the Simple Gifts tune at the beginning of Section 7 from Appalachian Spring?
Clarinet
Beethoven wrote music in both the ________ style and the ________ style.
Classical; Romantic
At the end of a classical exposition there usually is a:
Coda sign
What was Stravinsky's profession?
Composer
Outside France, Berlioz enjoyed a great career as a(n):
Conductor
The first movement of Symphony No. 5 in C Minor begins, in the first two measures:
Loudly and emphatically
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's masterpiece is________.
Das Jahr
From what condition did Beethoven suffer?
Deafness
Which of the following operas is based on a Lorenzo Da Ponte libretto?
Don Giovanni
The first movement of Piano Concerto No. 20 in d minor is in ________ form.
Double-Exposition Form
The fifth movement of Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony depicts a:
Dream of a Witches Sabbath
The meter of the fourth movement of Symphony No. 5 in C Minor is:
Duple
An undifferentiated stream of singing and declamation, as expressed in the vocal melodies of Wagner.
Endless melody
An operatic number sung by two or more people is called a(n):
Ensemble
Haydn was fortunate in having a long and fruitful, as well as financially stable, relationship with the noble Hungarian family of:
Esterhazy
A ______________, among other things, "shows artistry", "shows beauty", has "spiritual value", and "has universality in its appeal to a great number of people".
Masterpiece
The scherzo, a fast, triple-meter movement, evolved from the:
Minuet
The name that Wagner gave to the new, more holistic, fully integrated type of opera he created.
Music drama
In order to support his family, Berlioz turned to:
Musical journalism and working in a library
What political figure inspired Beethoven in composing the Eroica Symphony?
Napoleon Bonaparte
Wagner modeled the poetry for his libretto on the style of the following medieval poem:
Nibelungenlied
Which instrument(s) plays the Simple Gifts tune in Variation 1 from Appalachian Spring?
Oboe and bassoon
Italian comic opera was called:
Opera buffa
Please indicate which of the following performing forces would usually perform the symphony:
Orchestra
Which performing ensemble plays Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?
Orchestra
As one of the first great ____________, Berlioz influenced a whole generation of musicians.
Orchestral conductors
Please select the correct layout of the exposition(s) in the first movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto in D minor, K. 466.
Orchestral exposition; solo exposition
The painter _________, also embodied primitivism in his paintings?
Pechstein
In the mid-nineteenth century, the following instrument became the center of music making in the home:
Piano
Which instrument was Beethoven performing instrument?
Piano
Please indicate which of the following performing forces would usually perform the sonata:
Piano alone; or solo instrument with piano
The piano parts of Schubert's Lieder are notable for their:
Pictorial and dramatic roles
Who was Haydn's principal employer through his long career:
Prince Nicholas Esterhazy
In sonata-allegro form, the coda (if one is present) comes after the:
Recapitulation
Mozart's final work, left incomplete at his death was____?
Requiem Mass
The following composer believed that poetry, scenic design, staging, action, and music work together to form what he referred to as a Gesamtkunstwerk:
Richard Wagner
The following composer wrote over 120 songs in 1840, which he/she referred to as his/her "year of song":
Robert Schumann
The _________ movement of Haydn's Surprise Symphony is in theme-and-variations form.
Second
Which is NOT true of Clara Schumann's personal life?
She corrected Robert's compositions whenever they collaborated
Which of the following is NOT true about Fanny Mendelssohn musical career?
She was able to publish most of her music and performed regularly in public to rave reviews from the critics
Which of the following is true about Clara Schumann's training and career?
She was compared favorably to some very famous pianists of her time, such as Franz Liszt.
The piano of Mozart's day was ______ the modern piano.
Smaller than
lease indicate which of the following performing forces would usually perform the concerto:
Soloist and orchestra
In a large part of Verdi operas the ingénue love pair are assigned to specific voice ranges (.i.e. soprano, alto, tenor, and bass) Which voice parts are usually assigned for the love pair?
Soprano and Tenor
Of the following, which is NOT a characteristic of Verdi's late operas?
Spoken dialogue for the most intense scenes
Haydn was a prolific composer, as demonstrated in part by his 68 string quartets and 104.
Symphonies
With which genre is Beethoven most closely associated?
Symphony
Which of the following was not one of Haydn's duties while in the service of the Esterházys?
Teaching music to the choir boys
Which of the following statements is not true about the "Tenore di Grazia"?
Tenore di grazia sings heroic tenor parts such as Wagner's Siegfried or Verdi's Otello
Which is true about the panpipe?
The God Pan created it to assuage his sadness over losing Sirinx
In 1830 the Paris Conservatory awarded Berlioz:
The Prix de Rome
Haydn is considered the inventor for which musical form?
The String Quartet Form
Which is not true about Rossini's coloratura Mezzo-Soprano?
The coloratura Mezzo-Soprano must have the ability to fill a large hall with a stentorian sound and sustained high notes
A feeling of harmonic tension and forward motion is created in the exposition of a sonata form movement by
The conflict of tonalities between the first and second themes
In Wagner's operas, the introduction of a leitmotiv is most commonly sounded first by:
The orchestra
What does the piano introduction of "Erlkönig" bring to mind?
The pounding and galloping of a horses' hoove
Of the following, which does not typify a Haydn Symphony?
They have three movements only
Which is true of Beethoven's style periods?
They progress from Classical to heroic to introspective
Music scholars divide Beethoven's music into ________ distinct style periods:
Three
How many different characters do you hear in "Erlkönig"?
Three plus the narrator
When a composer writes new music for each stanza of a poem, the form is known as:
Through composed
Berlioz was extraordinarily imaginative in treating the orchestra, creating ____________ never before heard.
Tone colors
Which accurately describes the opera Don Giovanni?
Tragic and comical
According to the composer/conductor Pierre Boulez, 'Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun?' often referred to as the first composition of the "modern" era, 'awakened modern music.'
True
Debussy resented being called an 'impressionist' but he preferred being called a 'modernist' or a symbolist'.
True
Le Sacre du Printemps (Rite of Spring) was originally titled "The Victim" and portrayed a pagan celebration in which a virgin sacrifices herself to the god of spring.
True
Stravinsky rather quickly left the audience of the premiere of the Rite of Spring in fear, because of the negative response
True
The Rite of Spring depicts various primitive rituals celebrating the advent of spring, after which a young virgin girl is chosen as a sacrificial victim and dances herself to death to appease the God of Spring.
True
True or False: Verdi was used to bossing his librettists around.
True
True or False: Verdi wrote operas based on Shakespeare's plays
True
True or False? The Cabaletta is the second, faster movement of the 19th century Italian double aria, most often made up of a stanza sung twice, the second time with ornamentation, and ending with a rousing coda.
True
True/False: The Cavatina and Cabaletta almost always occur in pairs in arias of 19th century operas.
True
Unity is achieved in the classical symphony partly by the use of the same key in three of its four movements.
True
Variation 4 starts in the same key as Variation 3 ended.
True
At the beginning of Variation 2 the Simple gifts is played:
Twice as slow
Please indicate which of the following performing forces would usually perform the string quartet:
Two violins, viola, and cello
As a young boy, Mozart was showcased in ______to the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa.
Vienna
Most of Mozart's masterworks were composed in which city?
Vienna
Mozart was a child prodigy on which instrument or instruments?
Violin and keyboard
The second movement of Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony is a ______________, the most popular dance of the romantic era.
Waltz
Between the ages of six and fifteen, Mozart:
Was continually on tour in England and Europe.
Two artists whose works had a great impact on the young Berlioz were:
William Shakespeare and Ludwig van Beethoven
All of the following are characteristics of Beethoven's symphonic compositional style except
disregard and ignorance of classical forms
Please select the correct order of the sections of a sonata-allegro form.
exposition, development, recapitulation
Which musical characteristic of Beethoven's symphonies seems far from the Classical style of Mozart and Haydn?
rhythmic drive
For Richard Wagner, the function of music was to:
serve dramatic expression
