Chapter 5a Music Test
Schubert wrote compositions in every musical genre except
piano concertos.
During the first ten years of his creative life, Schumann published only
piano pieces.
A very important musical part of every middle-class home during the romantic period was the
piano.
The ___________ is a dance in triple meter that originated as a stately processional for the Polish nobility.
polonaise
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.
A slight holding back or pressing forward of tempo in music is known as
rubato
The first movement of Mendelssohn's Concerto for Violin is linked to the introduction of the second movement by a(n)
single bassoon tone.
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.
Liszt created the ______________, a one-movement orchestral composition based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea.
symphonic poem
A romantic composer who earned his living as a touring virtuoso was
Franz Liszt
Which of the following is not true of Robert Schumann's works?
They are all written for the piano.
Robert Schumann's Carnaval is a(n)
cycle of piano pieces.
The Erlking, in Schubert's song of that name, is a romantic personification of
death
A leading pianist of the nineteenth century, Clara Schumann
did some composing, but considered herself primarily a performer.
While in Paris, Chopin
earned a good living by teaching piano to the daughters of the rich.
Drawing creative inspiration from cultures of lands foreign to the composer is known as
exoticism
The piano's relentless rhythm in Erlkönig (The Erlking) unifies the episodes of the song and suggests the
galloping horse.
Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto was inspired by
his friendship the famous violinist Ferdinand David.
Program music is
instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene.
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.
Mendelssohn wrote in all musical forms except
operas
Until the age of thirty-six, Franz Liszt toured Europe as a virtuoso
pianist.
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.
Liszt's piano works are characterized by
All answers are correct.
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
A composer who earned his/her living as a violin virtuoso was
Niccolò Paganini.
As a youth, Franz Liszt was influenced by the performances of
Niccolò Paganini.
Music criticism was a source of income for both Hector Berlioz and
Robert Schumann.
An orchestra toward the end of the romantic period might include close to ______ musicians.
100
Romanticism, as a stylistic period in western music, encompassed the years
1820-1900
Schubert's songs number more than
600
By the age of thirteen, Mendelssohn had written ____________ of astounding quality.
All answers are correct.
Clara Wieck was
All answers are correct.
Composers expressed musical nationalism in their music by
All answers are correct.
In the 1830s, Paris was
All answers are correct.
Liszt typified the romantic movement because he
All answers are correct.
The rise of the urban middle class led to the
All answers are correct.
Clara Schumann was a
All of the above are correct.
Which of the following is not characteristic of romanticism?
An emphasis on balance and clarity of structures
Schubert wrote a number of symphonies and chamber works that are comparable in power and emotional intensity to those of his idol,
Beethoven
Which of the following statements is not true?
Chopin's piano études, compositions designed to help a performer master specific technical difficulties, are primarily technical exercises without much musical value. References
Which of the following forms was not used in composing art songs?
Concerto
Which of the following statements is not true?
During the last years of his life, Liszt settled in Rome and devoted himself solely to his religious duties.
The high point of Mendelssohn's career was the triumphant premiere of his oratorio _____________ in England.
Elijah
Which of the following is not a characteristic aspect of romanticism in literature and painting?
Emotional restraint
Which of the following statements is not true?
Fascination with the melodies, rhythms, and colorful materials from distant lands is a romantic trend known as musical nationalism.
All of the following romantic composers were also virtuoso instrumentalists giving solo recitals except
Hector Berlioz.
The 1844 Treatise on Modern Instrumentation and Orchestration that signaled the recognition of orchestration as an art in itself was written by
Hector Berlioz.
The German composers of art songs favored, among others, the lyric poetry of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and
Heinrich Heine.
Mendelssohn is known as the man who rekindled an interest in the music of
Johann Sebastian Bach.
Schubert was eighteen years old when he composed the song Erlkönig, set to a poem by
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
The writer whose literary works greatly inspired Franz Liszt was
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
The composer whose career was a model for many romantic composers was
Ludwig van Beethoven.
During his teens and twenties, Franz Liszt lived in
Paris.
One of the few composers fortunate enough to be supported by private patrons was
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Which of the following statements is not true?
Romantic composers rejected the basic forms of the classical period and preferred to develop new forms of their own.
Which of the following statements is not true?
Romantic musicians often composed to execute a commission or meet the demands of an aristocratic or church patron.
Which of the following statements is not true?
Schubert labored at great length over each of his compositions, which accounts for his small output.
Which of the following statements is not true of the romantic art song?
The art song is restricted to strophic form.
Which of the following statements is not true of the piano in the early romantic period?
The piano's range remained basically the same as in the classical period.
Liszt abandoned his career as a traveling virtuoso to become court conductor at __________, where he championed works by contemporary composers.
Weimar
Which of the following composers is not associated with the romantic period?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
A study piece, designed to help a performer master specific technical difficulties, is known as
an etude.
In the first movement of Mendelssohn's Concerto for Violin, the cadenza
appears at the end of the development section as a transition to the recapitulation.
Most of Chopin's pieces
are exquisite miniatures.
The three movements of Mendelssohn's Concerto for Violin
are played without pause.
The word ___________ is commonly used for a romantic art song with a German text.
lied
Chopin expressed his love of Poland by composing polonaises and
mazurkas
When the same music is repeated for two or more stanzas of a poem, leading to new music for other stanzas, the form is known as
modified strophic.
Schubert's primary source of income came from his
musical compositions.
Chopin's Revolutionary Étude develops the pianist's left hand because
the left hand must play rapid passages throughout.
Altering the character of a melody by changes in dynamics, orchestration, or rhythm is a romantic technique known as
thematic transformation.
The form of The Erlking is
through-composed.
