Mus 116 unit 5
Romanticism, as a stylistic period in Western music, encompassed the years ______.
1820-1900
Schubert's songs number more than ______.
600
Dvořák "found a secure basis for a new national [American] musical school" in ______.
African American spirituals
Antonin Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 ______.
All of the answers are correct.
Which of the following is not characteristic of romanticism?
An emphasis on balance and clarity of structures
The founder of Czech national music was ______.
Bedřich Smetana
Which statement best describes this excerpt? (5m)
Carmen sings an aria, which is answered by the chorus.
Which of the following is not a characteristic aspect of romanticism in literature and painting?
Emotional restraint
Which statement best describes this excerpt? (5n)
Escamillo sings an aria, which is answered by the chorus.
Which of the following best describes this music? (5a)
German lied
The movement in opera known as verismo is best exemplified by ______.
Giacomo Puccini
Which of the following best describes this music? (5f)
It is a concerto.
Mendelssohn is known as the man who rekindled an interest in the music of ______.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Antonin Dvořák's music was first promoted by ______.
Johannes Brahms
The composer whose career was a model for many romantic composers was ______.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Some of Puccini's operas feature exoticism, as in his use of melodic and rhythmic elements derived from Japanese and Chinese music in his operas ______.
Madame Butterfly and Turandot
Which of the following best describes the rhythm of the accompaniment in this excerpt? (5a)
Relentless triplet rhythms
The librettos to The Ring of the Nibelung were written by ______.
Richard Wagner
The course of Brahms's artistic and personal life was shaped by the influence of the composer(s) _______.
Robert Schumann and his wife Clara
Which statement is true of this excerpt? (5o)
The aria features the tenor most prominently.
Which statement best characterizes the piano accompaniment? (5c)
The rapid rhythms of the piano accompaniment evoke both the storm and the woman's agitation.
Which statement is true of this excerpt? (5q)
This music employs a large orchestra with a wide variety of instruments.
Schubert was born in ______.
Vienna
Which of the following composers is not associated with the romantic period?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
At its premiere in 1870, Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Overture was ______.
a dismal failure
Nadezhda von Meck was ______.
a wealthy benefactress who provided Tchaikovsky with an annuity.
Nonprogram music is also known as _____________ music.
absolute
How did composers express musical nationalism in their music?
all answers are correct
Brahms's works, though very personal in style, are rooted in the music of ______.
all answers correct
Clara Schumann was a ______.
all answers correct
Liszt typified the romantic movement because he ______.
all answers correct
Parisians were startled by Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony because of its ______.
all answers correct
What did the rise of the urban middle class lead to?
all answers correct
A study piece, designed to help a performer master specific technical difficulties, is known as ______.
an étude
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky ______.
began to study music theory at the age of twenty-one.
The marchlike fanfare in this selection features which group of instruments? (5h)
brass
Georges Bizet composed _________, one of the most popular and frequently performed operas in the world.
carmen
The Habañera and the Toreador Song are two famous arias from which opera?
carmen
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 orchestration in Wagner's operas is _______.
full and colorful
In this selection, the music ______. (5g)
grows in intensity and in volume
The texture of this selection is mostly ______. (5h)
homophonic
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
What is program music?
instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene
A short musical idea associated with a person, object, or thought, used by Richard Wagner in his operas, is called ______.
leitmotif
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
Chopin expressed his love of Poland by composing polonaises and ______.
mazurkas
Verdi studied music in _________, the city where Italy's most important opera house, La Scala, is located.
milan
Even though Smetana was deaf at the time, he composed a musical work depicting Bohemia's main river as it flows through the countryside. The name of the river, and the musical composition, is the ______.
moldau
Verdi's first great success, an opera with strong political overtones, was _______.
nabucco
Of all the inspirations for romantic art, none was more important than ______.
nature
In 1892, Dvořák went to ___________, where he spent almost three years as director of the National Conservatory of Music.
new york
A slow, lyrical, intimate composition for piano, associated with evening and nighttime, is the ______.
nocturne
To which genre does this music belong? (5o)
opera
Which genre best describes this music? (5q)
opera
Brahms wrote masterpieces in many musical forms, but never any ______.
operas
Mendelssohn wrote in all musical forms except ______.
operas
In this excerpt, the violin solo gives way to the ______. (5f)
orchestra performing the main theme
Giacomo Puccini's opera La Bohème takes place in ______.
paris
Until the age of thirty-six, Franz Liszt toured Europe as a virtuoso ______.
pianist
A very important musical part of every middle-class home during the romantic period was the ______.
piano
During the first ten years of his creative life, Schumann published only ______.
piano pieces
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
This music is a study piece intended to develop the pianist's left hand, as evidenced in this excerpt with ______. (5e)
relentless rapid passages in the low register
A slight holding back or pressing forward of tempo in music is known as ______.
rubato
Critics were often scandalized by the subject matter of Verdi's operas because they ______.
seemed to condone rape, suicide, and free love
This music is best characterized as a ______. (5b)
short piano piece.
An art song is a musical composition for ______.
solo voice and piano
The rhythmic velocity of this excerpt is provided mainly by the ______. (5k)
strings
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
This music is best described as a ______. (5j)
symphony
Which voice part is featured in this aria? (5p)
tenor
This fast notes beneath the melody are intended to invoke ______. (5i)
the movement of the water
Giuseppe Verdi mainly composed his operas ______.
to entertain a mass public.
This excerpt enhances the grotesque dance tune with ______. (5g)
trills and ornaments
An artistic trend of the 1890s, in which operas dealt with ordinary people and true-to-life situations, was known as ______.
verismo
The impassioned river melody is performed here by the ______. (5i)
violins
This excerpt begins with the melody presented by the cellos and then repeated by the _______. (5L)
violins
The accompaniment in this excerpt is in the style of a ______. (5d)
waltz
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
