Mul1010 Part 2

The typical orchestra of the late romantic period numbered about ______ musicians.

100

Classicism, as a stylistic period in music, figured prominently during the years

1750-1820

Approximately, the romantic period encompassed the years

1820-1900

The years from about ______ are generally considered the golden age of the American musical.

1920 to 1960

Theme-and-variations form may be schematically outlined as

AA'A''A'''A''''

A common rondo pattern is

ABACABA

The movement in opera known as verismo is best exemplified by

Giacomo Puccini

There are _____ different tones in the whole-tone scale.

Six

An eerily expressive kind of declamation midway between song and speech, introduced by the expressionist composers, is

Sprechstimme

All the following composers are associated with the romantic period except

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

A brilliant solo section in a concerto designed to display the performer's virtuosity is called

a cadenza

Placing one traditional chord against another at the same time, a technique of twentieth-century music, is known as

a polychord

A variety show without a plot but with a unifying idea is called

a revue

Instrumental music which is written for its own sake, and for which the composer does not provide a program, is called

absolute music

The complete rejection of a tonal center, or treating each of the twelve tones as of equal importance, is called

atonality

The main section of a musical comedy song is called the

chorus

Which of the following characteristics is not usually associated with impressionism?

clearly delineated forms

Which of the following is not a characteristic of romanticism?

emotional restraint

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

exoticism

The technique of using two or more tonal centers at the same time is called

expanded tonality

Distortion is a technique used primarily in the _____ period.

expressionist

The usual order of movements in a classical symphony is

fast, slow, dance-related, fast

Chamber music is characterized by

having one performer per part

Ostinato refers to a

motive or phrase that is repeated persistently at the same pitch throughout a section

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

nationalism

A piano sonata is a musical composition in two or more movements for

piano

Instrumental music endowed with literary or pictorial associations, popular during the romantic period, is called

program music

In many of Beethoven's works there is a ___________ movement instead of the minuet.

scherzo

The classical concerto is a large-scale work in three movements for

solo instrument and orchestra

A symphony is a

sonata for orchestra

The typical orchestra of the classical period consisted of

strings, pairs of woodwinds, horns, trumpets, and timpani

The minuet is generally the _____ movement of a classical symphony.

third

A string quartet is a musical composition for

two violins, viola, and cello

A variety show with songs, comedy, juggling, acrobats, and animal acts, but no plot, is called

vaudeville