Music 121 Test #4
the composer ______ is generally regarded as the most flamboyant pianist and greatest virtuoso of the Romantic era.
Franz List
who composed Erlkonig (the Erlking)?
Franz Schubert
who was the earliest and known as the greatest matter of the lied?
Franz Schubert
who composed the Nocturne in F-sharp?
Frederick Chopin
which term refers to a synthesis of many of the arts into one unified work or total work of art?
Gesamtkunstwerk
who composed Aida?
Giuseppe Verdi
Which late Romantic composer responded to late Romanticism with a bittersweet nostalgia for lost innocence?
Gustav Mahler
who composed the Fantastic Symphony?
Hector Berlioz
which important late Romantic composer, who's violin concerto we studied, responded to the unbridled emotionalism of Romanticism with a return to order structures; Viennese Classicism?
Johannes Brahms
the composer most responsible for elevating music to a new level of self-expression to being the Romantic era was:
Ludwig van Beethoven
who had the greatest influence on early Romantic composers?
Ludwig van Beethoven
which two composers were known for their large orchestras and great orchestration?
Mahler and Berlioz
who composed Pictures at an Exhibition?
Modest Mussorgsky
Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, and Sleeping Beauty are all ballets composed by
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
who composed Romeo and Juliet?
Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky
who composed the Valkyrie?
Richard Wagner
the composer who started a music magazine (The New Music Journal) to defend the music of the Romantics against public indifference was
Robert Schumann
who composed Eusebius and Forestan from Carnival?
Robert Schumann
a program symphony is a
Romantic multi-movement symphony that is based on a program
which country were the kuska from?
Russia
a song cycle is a
group of songs with a common poetic theme or common poet or other unifying element
which statement about Fanny Mendelssohn is false?
her compositions were widely admired and she was accepted as a professional composer during her lifetime
which is true of program music?
it refers to some non-musical idea such as a poetic or literary work
compared to the Classical orchestra, the typical Romantic orchestra was
larger and blended tone colors in new ways
the nineteenth-century German genre consisting of a musical setting of a short poem for voice and piano is the
lied
which of the other arts had the greatest influence on the early Romantic composers?
literature
Erlkonig is a
minature composition
a character piece is a
miniature composition for piano
in Berlioz, Symphony Fantastique, what family of instruments did we hear that we had not heard before much?
percussion
in the nineteenth century, what instrument was the most likely to be composed for and played as a solo instrument?
piano
Pictures at an Exhibition is considered
program music
music without singing but derived from a poem, story, or other literary source, is called
program music
Fantastic Symphony is a
program symphony
increasingly, the focal point for the performance of Romantic orchestral music was the
public concert hall
the following were popular themes in the Romantic Period
revolt, the macabre and love
the musical term applied to flexibility in rhythm and tempo is
rubato
what are the three basic forms of lieder?
strophic, through-composed and a combination of those two
an orchestral work composed later in the Romantic period in one movement with a free form and with a program is called a:
symphonic poem
in class, we read out loud as a class the following poem:
the Erlkonig
what were the two most important elements of Wagner's operatic style?
the concept of Gesamtkunstwerk and the technique of leitmotiv
the quality most prized by Romantic artists was:
the integrity of the expression of individual feeling
what does the piano accompaniment to Erlkonig bring to mind?
the pounding of a horse's hooves
Aida was commissioned for
a new opera house in Cairo, Egypt
which describes the emotional goal of music in the nineteenth century?
a search for freedom of individual self-expression, artistic freedom
what is a concert overture?
an overture that is not connected to any following music, such as an opera, but has a programmatic element
the important new member of the Romantic orchestra was the
conductor
in class, we watched an excerpt from:
both a and b (Aida and the Valkyrie)
Chopin was most noted for composing
character pieces for piano
Eusibius and Florestan are
character pieces that represent two personality aspects of the composer
the Fantastic Symphony includes a
chorus
the performing forces in Erlkonig are consistent with all German Leid and they are
one soloist and piano
Aida is an
opera
the cartoon we watched in class, featured the music of Franz Liszt and which two characters?
Tom and Jerry
who was not a Romantic composer?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
miniature were generally heard
as separate compositions
the purpose of nationalist music was to
evoke the sounds of the composer's native lands
in which category is a symphonic poem different from a concert overture?
form
in composing a Romantic grandiose composition, composers created works with
more movements, longer length and bigger orchestras
what did Wagner call his new style of opera in the 1850s?
music drama
Leitmotivs are developed by means of
thematic transformation
the technique of having the same theme fragment reappear with some transformation at loosely recurring intervals is
thematic transformation
miniatures were usually written for
voice and piano or piano alone
thematic unity occurs
when a composer uses the same themes in all or more than one movement of a work
