Romantic Quiz

Which of the following is not a characteristic aspect of romanticism in literature and painting? 1) Emotional restraint 2) Emotional subjectivity 3) Exoticism 4) Fantasy

1) Emotional restraint

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

Which of the following is not characteristic of romanticism? 1) A fascination with fantasy 2) An emphasis on balance and clarity of structures 3) An enthusiasm for the culture of the Middle Ages 4) An interest in exoticism and the past

2) An emphasis on balance and clarity of structures

Which of the following statements is not true? 1) Romantic music puts unprecedented emphasis on self-expression and individuality of style. 2) Fascination with the melodies, rhythms, and colorful materials from distant lands is a romantic trend known as musical nationalism. 3) Romantic composers relied upon a more prominent use of chromatic harmony, or the use of chords containing tones not found in the prevailing major or minor scale. 4)A romantic composition tends to have a wide variety of keys and rapid modulations.

2) Fascination with the melodies, rhythms, and colorful materials from distant lands is a romantic trend known as musical nationalism.

Schubert's songs number more than

600.

By the age of thirteen, Mendelssohn had written ____________ of astounding quality.

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Clara Wieck was

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Composers expressed musical nationalism in their music by

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In the 1830s, Paris was

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Liszt typified the romantic movement because he

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Liszt's piano works are characterized by

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Parisians were startled by Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony because of its

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The citizen's sense of national identity and patriotic feelings were intensified by

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The rise of the urban middle class led to the

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Clara Schumann was a

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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? Berlioz was an extraordinarily imaginative and innovative orchestrator. All of Berlioz's major works are dramatic in nature and relate either to a literary program or to a text. In 1830 Berlioz won the Paris Conservatory's Prix de Rome which granted him two years' subsidized study in Rome. Berlioz's reputation outside France was even lower than it was in his homeland.

Berlioz's reputation outside France was even lower than it was in his homeland.

Which of the following statements is not true? In the 1830s Paris was a center of romanticism and the artistic capital of Europe. Chopin was a shy, reserved man who disliked crowds and preferred to play in salons rather than in public concert halls. Many of Chopin's most poetic effects come from the sensitive exploitation of the piano's pedals. Chopin's piano études, compositions designed to help a performer master specific technical difficulties, are primarily technical exercises without much musical value.

Chopin's piano études, compositions designed to help a performer master specific technical difficulties, are primarily technical exercises without much musical value.

Which of the following forms was not used in composing art songs?

Concerto

Which of the following statements is not true? To display his incomparable piano mastery, Liszt composed his Transcendental Etudes and made piano transcriptions of Paganini's violin pieces. During the last years of his life, Liszt settled in Rome and devoted himself solely to his religious duties. As a stupendous performer, innovative composer, and charismatic personality, Franz Liszt typified the romantic movement. The literary works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe were among Franz Liszt's favorite inspirations.

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

The composer who developed the symphonic poem was

Franz Liszt

A romantic composer who earned his living as a touring virtuoso was

Franz Liszt.

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.

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.

Which of the following instruments is not part of the orchestra for Symphonie fantastique?

Organ

During his teens and twenties, Franz Liszt lived in

Paris.

The work referred to by Beethoven as an "expression of feeling rather than painting" was his

Pastoral Symphony (No. 6.)

One of the few composers fortunate enough to be supported by private patrons was

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Music criticism was a source of income for both Hector Berlioz and

Robert Schumann.

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. Hector Berlioz's Treatise on Modern Instrumentation and Orchestration, published in 1844, signaled the recognition of orchestration as an art in itself. Musical nationalism was expressed when romantic composers deliberately created music with a specific national identity. To intensify the expression of the music, romantic performers made use of rubato, the slight holding back or pressing forward of tempo.

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 composers wrote primarily for a middle-class audience whose size and prosperity had increased because of the industrial revolution. Romantic musicians often composed to execute a commission or meet the demands of an aristocratic or church patron. Music conservatories were founded in Chicago, Cleveland, Boston, Oberlin, and Philadelphia during the 1860s. The nineteenth-century public was captivated by virtuosity.

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? Franz Schubert led a bohemian existence, living with friends because he had no money to rent a room of his own. Schubert labored at great length over each of his compositions, which accounts for his small output. At the time of his death, Schubert's reputation was mainly that of a fine song composer. In addition to symphonies, operas, string quartets and other chamber works, Schubert composed over six hundred songs.

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. A song cycle is a set of romantic art songs that may be unified by a story line that runs through the poems, or by musical ideas linking the songs. Through-composed, a translation of the German term durchkomponiert, is a song form that allows music to reflect a poem's changing moods. The accompaniment of a romantic art song is an integral part of the composer's conception, and it serves as an interpretive partner to the voice.

The art song is restricted to strophic form.

Which of the following statements is not true of the piano in the early romantic period? A cast-iron frame was introduced to hold the strings under greater tension. The use of the damper pedal allowed a sonorous blend of tones from all registers of the piano. The piano's range remained basically the same as in the classical period. The piano's hammers were covered with felt.

The piano's range remained basically the same as in the classical period.

Which of the following statements is not true? Musicians and audiences in the romantic period liked to read stories into all music, whether intended by the composer or not. The romantic concert overture was modeled after the opera overture, but the concert overture is not intended to usher in a stage work, being instead an independent composition. The symphonic poem, or tone poem, is a two-movement composition in sonata-allegro form. Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet is an example of program music.

The symphonic poem, or tone poem, is a two-movement composition in sonata-allegro form.

Which of the following is not true of Robert Schumann's works? They are intensely autobiographical. They are usually linked with descriptive titles, texts, or programs. They are frequently lyrical in nature. They are all written for the piano.

They are all written for the piano.

Liszt abandoned his career as a traveling virtuoso to become court conductor at __________, where he championed works by contemporary composers.

Weimar

The writer whose works had the greatest impact on the young Berlioz was

William Shakespeare.

Which of the following composers is not associated with the romantic period?

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Nonprogram music is also known as _____________ music.

absolute

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.

Outside France, Berlioz enjoyed a great career as a(n)

conductor.

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.

The contrasting episodes of Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony are unified by the recurrence of a theme known as the

idée fixe.

Music intended to be performed before and during a play to set the mood for scenes or highlight dramatic action is known as

incidental music

Today's movie scores may be regarded as examples of

incidental music.

Program music is

instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene.

The word ___________ is commonly used for a romantic art song with a German text.

lied

The Fantastic Symphony reflects Berlioz's

love for the actress Harriet Smithson.

The fourth movement of Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony depicts a

march to the scaffold.

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.

In order to support his family, Schumann turned to

musical journalism.

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.

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.

Instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene, popular during the romantic period, is called

program music.

A ____________ is an instrumental composition in several movements based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea.

program symphony

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.

A ________________ is a one-movement orchestral composition based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea.

symphonic poem

Liszt created the ______________, a one-movement orchestral composition based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea.

symphonic poem

In 1830 Berlioz was awarded

the Prix de Rome.

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.

Berlioz was extraordinarily imaginative in treating the orchestra, creating ____________ never before heard.

tone colors

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.