Music 154

Beethoven's performing instrument was the

piano

In the nineteeth century, what instrument was the most likely to be composed for and played as a solo instrument

piano

Beethoven composed mostly ______ in his last style period.

piano sonatas and string quartets

Wagner was as well known for his ________ as he was for his operas.

political views

Music without singing, but having its form derived from poem, story, or other literary source is called:

program musci

Brahms composed in many genres, but did not write any

program music

What characterizes the music of nationalist composers

rebellion against the traditional harmony and form of European Romantic composers

Program music:

refers to some extramusical ideas such as painting or literary work

The musical term applied to flexibility in rhythm is:

rubato

A fast, triple-meter movement that evolved from the minuet is called a:

scherzo

Schubert started out his career as a _____________, then developed his time to _________ .

schoolteacher: composition

The fourth movement of the symphony is in ________ form.

sonata

What is the form of the first movement of the symphony?

sonata form

What do you hear in the third section of the first movement of the symphony that is unusual for this form?

stormy

The performing forces in the first movement of the symphony consist of

strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion

An orchestral work composed in one movement with a free form and with a program is called a:

symphonic poem

With which genre is Beethoven most closely associated?

symphony

Who started the idea of the symphonic poem?

Franz Liszt

Carl Maria von Weber was the founder of:

German Romantic opera

Which term refers to a synthesis of many of the arts into one unified work?

Gesamtkunstwerk

What were the two most important elements of Wagner's operatic style?

Gesamtkunstwerk and leitmotiv

Which is not true of Romantic music

Harmonies were clearer and more Diatonic and established a stronger sense of tonality than before

Carnaval contains twenty pieces, each representing a different:

character at a masked ball

Chopin was most noted for composing

character pieces for piano

Romantic treatment of tone color included:

combinging and blending different instrumental tone colord

The important new member of the Romantic orchestra was the:

conductor

Which characterizes the musical style of Tchaikovsky?

cosmopolitan Romantic

Which is not a feature of Beethoven's symphonic compositional style

disregard for Classical forms

Romantic treatment of form was:

free and spontaneous

A song cycle is an:

group of songs with a common poetic theme or unifying story

Beethoven stopped preforming because

he became progressively deaf

Which best describes Beethoven's character as reflected in his music?

heroic, striving, and triumphant

Which is not true of Wagner's career?

his career as a concert pianist enabled him to travel all over Europe

Which is not true of Gioacchino Rossini?

his opera overtures are in through-composed form

The Fantastic Symphony includes an:

idee fixe

Which is true about the second theme in the third movment of the symphony?

if is very similar to the first theme of the third movement

The term romantic was:

initially a literary term applied by writers of the era to their own work

Vincenzo Bellini

used light, cheery tunes in his opera arias

What is chromaticism

using all twelve notes of the scale liberally

Thematic unity occurs:

when a composer uses the same themes in some or all movements of a work

Which is not true of Carl Maria von Weber?

He wrote in the bel canto style

Which is not true of Gaetano Donizetti?

He wrote over sixty operas in his short lifetime

The Russian kushka included

Modest Mussorgsky, Alexander Borodin, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

What is unusual about Beethoven's Symphony No. 5?

There is no break between the third and fourth movement

Who does not belong on the list of early Italian Romantic opera composers?

Claudio Monteverdi

Which does not characterize Mahler's style of orchestration?

He uses a general homophonic texture, with sustained melodies played by the strings

which is not true of Franz Liszt?

He was shy and never able to sustain a long-term relationship

Which composer was most admired for his ability as an orchestrator

Hector Berlioz

Which is not true of the career of Robert Schumann

His musical career was eclipsed by that of his wife, the musically gifted Clara Wieck Schumann

Which of the following is true about the end of the third movement of the symphony?

It continues right into the next movement of this work

Who provided the Romantics with the ideal of the individual and was considered the ideological father of the French Revolution?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The nineteenth centurey German genre consisting of a musical setting of a short poem for voice and piano is the:

Lied

The lifelong model for Brahms was

Ludwig van Beethoven

Who had the greatest influnence on early Romantic composers?

Ludwig van Beethoven

Which is not true of the relationship between Romantic composers and the public?

Nineteenth-century audiences became more conservative and more critival of innovative composers

Which is not included in the creative output of Gustav Mahler

Operas

Next to Beethoven, who had the greatest influence on nineteenth-century composers?

Richard Wagner

Who wrote the texts for Wagner's operas?

Richard Wagner

The man who started a music magazine to defend the music of the Romantics against public indifference was

Robert Schumann

Which is not true about Romantic opera?

Romantic opera flourished only in Germany and Italy

Two compositions that represent Romantic musicians' fascination with the supernatural are:

Schubert's "Erlkonig", Berlioz's "Fantastic" Symphony

What are the two basic forms of Lieder?

Strophic and through-composed

Mahler's first symphony started out as an __________________ and became a _______________ .

Symphonic poem: program symphony in four movements

Wagner's ________ was part of ________.

The Rhinegold; The Ring of the Nibelung

Which is true of the style periods of Beethoven?

They progress from Classical to heroic to serene

Which is not true of Verdi's operatic style?

Verdi's operas still employ secco recitative and aria, although in a bel canto style

The third movement of Mahler's Symphony No. 1 is:

a funeral march

Which describes the struggle involved in the psychological progression of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5?

a heroic struggle with fate, starting out stormy and ending triumphant

Which describes the emotional goal of music in the nineteenth century?

a search for freedom of individual emotional expression

What characterizes the focus of the arts from the 1850s on?

an increased interest in realism

Which describes the early nineteenth-century concept of the artist as personified in Beethoven?

an inspired soul who suffers to deliver art to humanity

A concert overture is:

an overture that is not connected to any following music, such as an opera

A style of opera developed by early Italian Romantic composers was called

bel canto

Compared to the Classical orchestra, the typical Romantic orchestra was:

larger , and blended tone colors in new ways

Which allows a composer to show what a character is thinking even though something else is being said in the text?

leitmotiv

Which of the other arts had the greatest influence on the early Romantic composers

literature

Which characterizes the contrasting second theme in the first movement of the symphony that is unusual for this form?

lyrical

Tristan und Isolde is based on a(n):

medieval legend

With which musical element does the composer achieve the most contrast in the second movement of the symphony?

melody

A "character piece" is a:

miniature composition for piano

Which does not describe Romantic melody

more regular phrase lengths than in Classical melodies

The first movement of the symphoy is dominated by a repeated

motive

In the nineteenth century, which of the arts was believed to be most capable of expressing inner experience and emotions?

music

What did Wagner call his new style of opera in the 1850s?

music drama

Verdi's early operas were associated with:

the Italian liberation movement

Which is not an important element in the operatic style of Richard Wagner?

the aria

In which category is a symphonic poem different from a program symphony?

the number of movements

Leitmotivs are developed by means of:

thematic transformation.

The second movement of the symphony is in _____ form.

theme and variations

Music scholars divide Beethoven's music into ______ style periods

three

The general mood of the fourth movement of the symphony is

triumphant

Which instruments are not heard until the fourth movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5?

trombones

How many themes are handled in the second movement of the symphony?

two