Final Exam Part 2 ( CH 33, 36, 37, 40, 41, 43)
Place the following movements in the order that they appear in Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique.
"Reveries, Passions" - "A Ball" - "Scene in the Fields" - "March to the Scaffold" - "Dream of a Witched 'Sabbath"
Which of the following are Romantic-era composers?
-Clara Wieck Schumann -Fanny Mendelson Hensel.
Who of the following were composers in the Romantic era?
-Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel -Clara Wieck Schumann
Which of the following correctly describe a part of Franz Schubert's career?
-He wrote more than 600 Lieder -His music shows both classical and Romantic traits -He sang in a prestigious choir in Vienna.
Which of the following were prominent composers who wrote Lieder?
-Johannes Brahms -Franz Schubert. -Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel.
Each of the pieces in the manuscript copy of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's Das Jahr was originally accompanied by which?
-a poetic epigram -a painting by her husband
Match the instrument(s) that Wagner used to portray each person or idea in the closing of scene 3 of Act III in Die Walküre. Siegfried - Loge - magic fire - magic sleep -
-brass -trombones -woodwinds and French horns -harps
Which of the following describe aspects of the fourth movement of Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique?
-minor tonality -prominent use of timpani -duple meter
After her marriage, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel was active as which?
-pianist -composer -participant in and then organizer of the family Sunday salon concept.
The "river" in September: At the River by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel is musically expressed by which?
-the swelling and decrescendo in dynamics -quick moving notes that accompany the melody.
In the nineteenth century, opera excerpts were marketed to domestic consumers via which?
-voice and guitar arrangement. -four-hand piano arrangement -wind band medleys.
Match each movement to the description Berlioz describes in the score for his Symphonie fantastique. movement I- movement II- movement III- movement IV- movement V-
1) The young musician's passionate daydream about love and suffering 2)A dance in which the beloved is glimpsed for a moment. 3)A shepherds' duet inspires anxiety. 4) The artist is punished for committing a crime of passion 5) The creatures of the underworld introduce the musician's eternal resting place.
A lost manuscript of music by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, in her own handwriting, that contained September: At the River was discovered in which year?
1989
The form of both Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy and Trepak from Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker is best outlined as which?
A-B-A
Which Verdi opera is set in Egypt?
Aida
Which of these Romantic-era works is considered to have an "exotic" narrative?
Aida Madame Butterfly
During which holiday season is Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker performed every year?
Christmas
Where does Act I of The Nutcracker take place?
Christmas Party
What happens in the second act of Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker?
Clara visits the land of sweets with the Prince
Which of the following characters sing in the "Un dì" quartet in Verdi's Rigoletto?
Duke Maddalena Gilda Rigoletto
Match the type of staged dancing with the country with which it is associated. masque- ballet de cour- intermedio-
England France Italy
Which of the following were new instruments added to the Romantic orchestra?
English horn contrabassoon piccolo
Who of the following was a painter during the Romantic Era?
Eugene Delacroix
Which of the following correctly describes strophic song form?
Every stanza is set to same melody
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel was enthusiastically encouraged to pursue a musical career by her family.
False
Franz Schubert only wrote Lieder.
False
In his music dramas Wagner created short arias that lent themselves to being separated from the larger work for performance at home.
False
In the nineteenth century Germany was noted for its long-established opera tradition.
False
Jenny Lind was a famous nineteenth-century composer of opera.
False
Rigoletto is an opera based on Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
False
Romantic composers rarely used dynamic markings and other expressive comments in their scores to communicate their intentions to musicians.
False
The Bohemian artist adhered to the social norms of the establishment.
False
The piano in Schubert's songs is only used for simple accompaniment; the voice has all the expression.
False
Verdi's Rigoletto was not an immediate success.
False
Wagner employed recurring themes called idées fixes in his operas.
False
Women in nineteenth-century Europe could not receive training in music.
False
The music of which Mendelssohn family member was overlooked until recently?
Fanny
In which countries was nineteenth-century ballet favored as an independent dramatic form?
France Russia
Romantic opera developed distinct national styles in Italy, Germany, and ---, and women --- excelled in all styles.
France singers
Whose daughter was Cosima, Wagner's wife?
Franz Liszt
Who of the following were prominent composers of Romantic-era Lieder?
Franz Schubert Clara Schumann
Novelist George Sand (pseudonym of Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin) played a key role in which composer's career?
Frederic Chopin
Lied is an art song for solo voice and piano sung in ---
German
Which term refers to Wagner's concept of a total artwork, encompassing all the arts?
Gesamtkunstwerk
In the recently discovered manuscript of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's September: At the River, the poetry of which nineteenth-century poet was included?
Goethe
Which of the following is true about Hector Berlioz?
He won the Prix de Rome He was a genius at orchestration Some of his work have a literary basis.
Who of the following best represents German Romantic lyric poetry?
Heinrich Heine
The --- Revolution brought with it the means to create more --- and responsive musical instruments as well as technical --- that influenced the sound of Romantic music.
Industrial affordable improvements
Who wrote the dramatic poem (based on a Danish legend) which provides the text for Schubert's Elfking?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Which of the following operas by Verdi is NOT based on a Shakespeare play?
La Traviata
Where did Tchaikovsky receive his first teaching post thanks to the recommendation of Anton Rubinstein?
Moscow Conservatory
Which opera did Verdi write based on the story of the king of Babylon?
Nabucco
Who managed the American debut tour of international singing sensation Jenny Lind?
P. T. Barnum
Nedezhda von Meck's relationship with Tchaikovsky was which?
Patron
The German art song was a genre that was generally performed by a solo voice and ---
Piano
In The Nutcracker, Clara's wooden nutcracker turns into a ---
Prince
Who of the following played a key role in Franz Liszt's career?
Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein
--- music evokes images and ideas and is distinguished from --- music, which consists of music without literary or pictorial meanings.
Program Absolute
In Wagner's The Ring Cycle, the treasure of gold that lies in a particular river is guarded by the three ---
Rhine Maidens
The operas of --- marked the high point of the bel canto singing style, which is characterized by florid --- lines.
Rossini melodic
Which of these operas marked the high point of the singing style known as bel canto?
Rossini's II Barbiere di Siviglia Rossini's Guillaume Tell
Tchaikovsky was a famous composer from ---
Russia
In the final scene of Die Walküre, Wagner introduces the leitmotif for the hero --- who hasn't even been born yet.
Siegfried
Light German opera featuring spoken dialogue is called what?
Singspiel
Match each character with their description as seen in Verdi's Rigoletto. Maddalena- Sparafucile- Gilda- Rigoletto-
Sparafucile's sister Assassin Rigoletto's daughter Court jester
.The form of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's September: At the River, from The Year, is ---
Ternary
Which of the following were famous ballets written by Tchaikovsky?
The Nutcracker Swan Lake Sleeping Beauty
According to legend, anyone touched by the Elfking must die.
True
After considerable success in Dresden with Rienzi, Wagner began to choose subjects derived from Germanic epics.
True
Ballet has been a part of theatrical entertainments since the Renaissance.
True
Berlioz was a devoted fan of Beethoven.
True
Berlioz wrote a Requiem Mass.
True
Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique is a program symphony.
True
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel was a prominent composer of Lieder.
True
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel wrote several large-scale works as well as many Lieder.
True
Giuseppe Verdi was viewed as an Italian nationalist composer.
True
Hector Berlioz looked to the writings of Shakespeare as the basis for both an opera and symphonic works.
True
In The Nutcracker, Tchaikovsky includes a number of dances that evoke exotic locales such as Arabia and China.
True
Many of Schubert's works were performed in the homes of his friends and sponsors.
True
Musicians and composers achieved a higher social status during the Romantic era than they had in the Classical era.
True
Nationalistic feelings inspired Romantic composers to incorporate folk songs and dances from their native lands into their works.
True
Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert both composed song cycles.
True
Romantic Lied texts are written in German.
True
Romanticism signifies a self-conscious break from the ideals of the Enlightenment.
True
Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker was choreographed by Marius Petipa.
True
The French Revolution fostered the rise of a middle-class society.
True
The Nutcracker was based on a story written by E. T. A. Hoffmann.
True
The bel canto style of singing is characterized by florid melodic lines.
True
The pas de deux, or dance for two, was developed by the choreographer Marius Petipa.
True
The role of the Valkyries was to carry fallen heroes from the battlefield to Valhalla on their winged horses.
True
Two prominent German Romantic poets whose texts were often set to music were Heinrich Heine and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
True
Wagner had a theater built at Bayreuth specifically for the performance of his music dramas.
True
Women in nineteenth-century Europe were expected to have refined music skills.
True
Which character from Wagner's Ring Cycle is presented in this image?
Valkyrie
The nine daughters of Wotan, in Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung, are known as the ---
Valkyries
Which of these authors wrote during the Romantic era?
Walter Scott Victor Hugo
What is the basis for the story of The Ring of the Nibelung?
a medieval German epic poem
What is the literary basis for Verdi's Rigoletto?
a pay by Victor Hugo
What is the historical setting of Rigoletto?
an Italian court during the Renaissance era
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's musical career was overshadowed by that of her ---Felix.
brother
In nineteenth-century Italy, audiences favored both the opera seria and opera --- styles and the use of --- singing.
buffa bel canto
Which new instrument did Tchaikovsky introduce to ballet?
celesta
In The Nutcracker, the timbre of the --- enhances the dance of the ---
celesta Sugar Plum Fairy
Which one of the following were women in Romantic European society NOT allowed to study in public conservatories?
conducting
The large size of the Romantic orchestra resulted in the need for a ---
conductor
Which of the following is NOT a style trait of Romantic music?
eschewal of chromatic and dissonant pitches
Artists and writers in the nineteenth century turned to Italy and Spain as well as Asia and the Far East for inspiration. These locales were considered ---
exotic
Instrumental music that has some literary or pictorial association is absolute music.
false
The Trepak is inspired by a French folk dance.
false
Women played a critical role in music-making activities of the nineteenth century, except as teachers.
false
Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique is in how many movements?
five
The idée fixe, which means "---idea," is varied throughout Symphonie fantastique through a process known as --- transformation.
fixed thematic
How many music dramas make up Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung?
four
The character development in Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique is realized musically through the thematic development of the ---
idee fixe
The main theme, heard transformed in each movement of Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, is called the ---
idee fixe
The eighteenth century saw the rise of ballet as an --- art form. French ballet was preeminent in the early nineteenth century then --- ballet flourished.
independent Russian
Wagner's large-scale music dramas are unified by ---
leitmotifs
Romantic-era melodies are best described as ---
lyrical and singable
Which leitmotifs did Wagner use in the closing scene of Act III in Die Walküre?
magic sleep Siegfried magic fire
In his career, Wagner abandoned the idea of separate arias, duets, ensembles, choruses, and ballets, instead developing an "endless ---" that was molded to the natural inflections of the --- language.
melody German
What did Wagner call his complete integration of theater and music?
music drama
Women of the upper class in the nineteenth century often presided over --- in their homes.
musical salons
Instrumental music that has some literary or pictorial association is called ---
program music
The melodies in September: At the River by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel are --- while the accompanying notes are ---
slow-paced fast-moving
What is the term for a group of Lieder unified by a descriptive or narrative theme?
song cycle
Which genres did Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel compose in and which did she not?
string quartet Piano music songs
The form of the aria "La donna è mobile" from Verdi's Rigoletto is ---
strophic
The two main Romantic-era song structures include --- and through-composed. An intermediate type, which is a combination of these two, is called --- strophic.
strophic modified
Berlioz's wife, who is believed to be the inspiration for his Symphonie fantastique, was which?
the actress Harriet Smithson
What does the loud chord at the end of the fourth movement (March to the Scaffold) of Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique represent?
the falling of the guillotine's blade
In which movement is the Dies irae ("Day of Wrath") theme from the Mass for the Dead heard in Symphonie fantastique?
the fifth
The French Revolution signaled the transfer of power from the hereditary landholding aristocracy to whom?
the middle class
A song that is composed from beginning to end without repetitions of whole sections is in which form?
through-composed form
The aria "La donna è mobile" from Verdi's Rigoletto is in a lilting --- meter.
triple
While social assumptions about ---- discouraged them from composing and giving public performances, they had long been --- and sponsors of music.
women teachers
