Music Test 2

Which is the best definition of "tempo rubato"?

"Robbed" time

A lost manuscript of music by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, in her own handwriting, that contained September: At the River was discovered in _____.

1989

How many symphonies did Brahms write?

4

Which of the following does NOT characterize Louis Gottschalk's piano music?

Distinctly European in style

After his conservatory studies, Chopin spent most of his productive career in _____.

France

A Lied is an art song for solo voice and piano sung in _____.

German

In the recently discovered manuscript of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's September: At the River, poetry of which nineteenth-century poet was included _____.

Goethe

In his piece The Banjo, how does Gottschalk evoke, musically, the idea of the title?

He simulates banjo strumming and picking on the piano.

In writing Peer Gynt, with which playwright did Grieg collaborate?

Henrik Ibsen

Which of the following did NOT make improved instruments possible in the nineteenth century?

Household electrification

In which country was Franz Liszt born?

Hungary

What is unusual about the ending of the song In the Lovely Month of May?

It does not cadence on the tonic.

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Robert Schumann's In the Lovely Month of May?

It is in through-composed form.

Puccini makes reference to the music of which culture in Madame Butterfly?

Japanese usa

Which of the following is considered the first internationally acclaimed American composer of classical music?

Louis Moreau Gottschalk

In which American city did Louis Gottschalk grow up?

New Orleans

Which of the following operas is considered part of the verismo tradition?

Puccini's Tosca Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci Puccini's La bohème

Which of the following is a post-Romantic composer?

Richard Strauss Giacomo Puccini Gustav Mahler

Which composer nurtured Brahms's talents, going as far as taking him into his home?

Robert Schumann

Edvard Grieg represents the _____ nationalist school.

Scandinavian

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the nineteenth-century symphony?

Small orchestra with limited winds

A song form that is composed from beginning to end without repetitions of whole sections is in which form?

Through-composed form

Which of the following was NOT a way that programmatic composers portrayed nationalistic sentiments in nineteenth-century music?

Utilizing ritornello form

Which of the following songs was NOT written by Stephen Foster?

coal black rose

Japan's two hundred years of isolation ended when the US Navy arrived in 1854, lead by ___________.

commeddo perry

Which role was NOT generally acceptable for women in Romantic society?

conductor

The third movement of a nineteenth-century symphony is most likely in _____ form.

dance or scherzo

What best describes the character of Chopin's Mazurka?

dancelike

The nineteenth-century trend towards evoking a culture outside the composer's in opera was known as:

exotism

According to legend, a child touched by the Elfking must die.

false

After her husband's composing career began to flourish, Giuseppina Strepponi enjoyed continued success as an opera singer into her last years.

false

Censors did not concern themselves with political representation in nineteenth-century operas.

false

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel was enthusiastically encouraged to pursue a musical career by her family.

false

Gottschalk began playing piano late in his life.

false

Hector Berlioz invented the symphonic poem.

false

In the twenty-first century, composers do not write nationalistic works.

false

Instrumental music that has some literary or pictorial association is absolute music.

false

Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair was the most famous of Foster's songs during his lifetime.

false

Most Lied composers wrote their own words for the song.

false

Music in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century America was wildly divergent from European traditions.

false

Once Adophe Sax developed the saxophone, it became a permanent and popular part of orchestral music.

false

Puccini found his inspiration for Madame Butterfly after visiting Tokyo and viewing a traditional play there.

false

Rigoletto is an opera based on Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

false

Romantic Lieder texts often speak of love and/or nature.

false

The Romantic symphony follows the exact forms and proportions of the Classical genre of Beethoven.

false

The characteristics of post-Romanticism were not found in works from Italy.

false

The movement of verismo focused on the imaginative/fantastic.

false

The piano changed little technically during the nineteenth century.

false

The piano was declining in popularity at the time of the Romantic Lied.

false

The scherzo movement in nineteenth-century symphonies generally is characterized by a slow march tempo.

false

Women in nineteenth-century Europe could not receive training in music.

false

Women played a critical role in music-making activities of the nineteenth century, except as teachers.

false

Nineteenth-century songwriters in the United States combined elements of all of the following EXCEPT _____.

film music

Which instruments did Puccini use in Madame Butterfly to evoke the Japanese gagaku orchestra?

flute harp bells piccolo

In order to marry her American love, Cio-Cio-San, in Puccini's Madame Butterfly, renounces her role as a ________________.

geisha

Foster's My Old Kentucky Home was inspired by _____.

his extensive visits to the American South

Brahms wrote his Requiem mass in memory of _____.

his mother

Foster's Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair is primarily composed in what texture?

homophonic

The main theme, heard transformed in each movement of Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, is called the _____.

idée fixe

Which category of program music best describes Grieg's Peer Gynt?

incidental music

The opera Madame Butterfly is set in:

japan

What specific musical technique did Puccini borrow from Wagner in his Madame Butterfly?

leitomis

Which of the following was a type of racially charged theatrical variety show in the United States in the nineteenth century?

minstrel show

Chopin was romantically involved with George Sand, the renowned French _____.

novelist

After her marriage, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel was responsible for _____.

organizing the family Sunday salon concerts

Japanese folk melodies are often built on a five note or _____________ scale.

pentatonic

Instrumental music that has some literary or pictorial association is called _____.

program music

Tchaikovsky's music for Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is a famous example of _____.

program overture

The concept of "river" in September: At the River by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel is expressed by _____.

quick moving notes that accompany the melody

Which genre is NOT a part of Chopin's compositional output?

string quartets

A song form in which the same melody is repeated for each stanza, often heard in popular music, is known as _____.

strophic form

The inspiration for Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique was _____.

the actress Harriet Smithson

The single melody of the solo violin at the opening of "Un bel dì" from Puccini's Madame Butterfly is evocative of:

the clear lines

In which movement is the Dies irae (Day of Wrath) theme from the Mass for the Dead heard?

the fifth

Berlioz was a devoted fan of Beethoven.

true

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel wrote several large-scale works as well as many Lieder.

true

Gottschalk wrote piano works based on North American musical traditions.

true

Gottschalk's The Banjo anticipates the syncopated piano style of ragtime.

true

Hector Berlioz looked to the writings of Shakespeare as the basis for both operas and symphonic works.

true

In the nineteenth century Theobald Boehm improved the flute, making it metal rather than wood.

true

Instrumental music that has some literary or pictorial association is called program music.

true

Liszt was an admirer of the virtuoso violinist, Niccolò Paganini.

true

Nationalistic program music might evoke a landscape.

true

Nineteenth-century parlor music in the United States was written to be accessible to amateurs.

true

Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly focuses on the heroine, a former geisha.

true

Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly is considered exotic due to its setting and plot.

true

Romantic-era piano works often had fanciful titles.

true

Stephen Foster is known for his ballads, minstrel show tunes, and plantation songs.

true

The Romantic symphony featured an orchestra larger than that of the Classical masters.

true

The first movement of a Romantic symphony is usually the most dramatic and features the use of sonata-allegro form.

true

The music that accompanies the lyrics of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair reflects Foster's Anglo-Irish cultural heritage.

true

The nineteenth century was an age of great virtuoso pianists.

true

The piano was the most central instrument in nineteenth-century musical culture.

true

The short, lyric piano work might be considered the instrumental equivalent to the nineteenth-century Lied.

true

Two prominent German Romantic poets whose texts were often set to music were Heinrich Heine and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

true

Unlike the symphonic poem the genre of symphony is often absolute music, without a program.

true

Women in nineteenth-century Europe were expected to have refined musical skills.

true

The nineteenth-century trend towards realism in opera was known as:

verismo