Music History Exam 2

The Fantastic Symphony reflects Berlioz's:

Love for the actress Harriet Smithson

Wagner saw himself as the true successor of:

Ludwig van Beethoven

The fourth movement of Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony depicts a:

March to the Scaffold

For which famous choreographer and dancer did Copland write "Appalachian Spring"?

Martha Graham

Which of the following is NOT true?

Rossini uses his "Crescendo" sparingly

Who persuaded Haydn to come to London?

Salomon

Mozart was born in 1756 in________. He died and was buried in _________.

Salzburg, Austria and Vienna, Austria

In Variation 3, which of the following is NOT true?

The tune is played in a pianissimo fashion

In the exposition of a sonata-form movement

The second theme is in a new key when compared to the first theme

In the recapitulation of a sonata-form movement

The second theme is in a new key; but this time it correspondes to the tonic key of the movement

Which of the following is NOT true

The second theme returns in the recapitulation of a 'sonata form' movement in an exact repetition of its statement in the exposition

Which of the following characteristics does not apply to Impressionistic music?

The use of classical forms, such as sonata allegro or Rondo form

The usual order of movements in a classical symphony is

fast, slow, dance-related, fast.

What was Nijinksi's profession?

Choreographer

Beethoven stopped performing because:

He went deaf

The 5th variation of section 7 "Simple Gifts" has a klopping horse and buggy sound.

False

Das Jahr, a series of character pieces on the twelve months inspired by an extended trip to Italy, was composed by:

Fanny Mendelssohn (Hensel)

Which of the following is TRUE about Fanny Mendelssohn?

Fanny ran a private salon on Sunday afternoons from her home.

A typical sequence of movements in a classical concerto is

Fast, slow, fast

Is a baby deer a "faun" or a "fawn"?

Fawn

What instrument plays the opening to 'Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun', and who wrote the poem Debussy's music was written for?

Flute; Stéphane Mallarmé

For what habit was Rossini NOT criticized?

For his jealousy of other composers

Wagner's term for the union of all the arts in a drama is_____:

Gesamtkunstwerk

Which composer inspired Haydn's oratorios?

Handel

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Haydn's music?

Haydn's music is monochromatic: few changes in texture and orchestration.

Why did Mozart frequently not write out the cadenzas for his piano concertos that he performed?

He could hear the cadenza in his head, and if he wrote it down possibly someone would steal it

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

Idée fixe

What was Diaghilev's profession?

Impresario

Debussy was a French composer who was one of the founders of the __________ movement in music and also one of its most important representatives

Impressionism

Which of the following is NOT true?

In his later years, Mozart was financially well off, widely acclaimed, and sought after by an adoring public.

Wagner's Tristan und Isolde was influential because_______

It used ambiguous harmony that stretched the limits of tonality

'Scherzo' means:

Joke

While working for Prince Esterhazy Haydn's job was called:

Kapellmeister

Wagner referred to reoccurring musical themes associated with specific characters, things, ideas, emotions or plot elements as:

Leitmotivs

Schubert wrote around 615 ______:

Lieder or Art Songs

Haydn's last symphonies were composed for___?

London

Mozart wrote his first symphony in 1764 in this city:

London

Which best describes the psychological progression of Symphony No. 5 in C Minor?

a heroic struggle with Fate, starting out stormily and ending triumphantly

Haydn wrote two oratorios of his own after having been inspired in London by Handel's oratorios. The two were called:

'The Creation' and 'The Seasons'

Which parts are normally the villain (male) or tortured/evil female?

'Verdi Baritone' and Alto/Contralto

Stravinsky was born in:

1882

Please select the number of movements, and the movements' corresponding tempos, commonly associated with the Concerto:

3 mvts; Fast, slow, fast

Please select the number of movements, and the movements' corresponding tempos, commonly associated with the sonata:

3 mvts; Fast, slow, fast

After the Simple Gifts theme is played in Copland's Appalachian Spring, Section 7, how many variations of Simple Gifts occur?

4

Please select the number of movements, and the movements' corresponding tempos, commonly associated with the String Quartet:

4 mvts; Fast, slow, dance-related, fast

Please select the number of movements, and the movements' corresponding tempos, commonly associated with the Symphony:

4 mvts; Fast, slow, dance-related, fast

Compared to the modern piano, Mozart's piano had ______ keys.

61

Which of the following is not a characteristic of Impressionistic music?

8 bar phrases and regular authentic cadences

The first movement of Symphony No. 5 in C Minor is dominated by a repeated:

A Motive: perhaps signaling 'Fate'

The premier of The Rite of Spring 1913 provoked ______________________ among the audience.

A Riot (Scandal)

What is a Song cycle?

A collection of songs (perhaps like a "concept album") on a single theme

What does Through-composed mean?

A composition that has no obvious repetition

Der Ring des Nibelungen is ________

A cycle of four music dramas by Wagner

Sonata form should be viewed as

A set of principles that serve to shape and unify contrasts of theme and key.

Which of the following is a Schubertiade?

A social gathering featuring the music of Franz Schubert

What is a Ballade ?

A specific type of narrative poetry that usually tells a sad story with an unhappy ending

What is a strophic text?

A text constructed of a series of stanzas or strophes

The theme played at the beginning of Section 7 of Appalachian Spring is the tune Simple Gifts. This tune consists of four phrases. What best describes the form of the tune?

ABXB

Which is true of Clara Schumann's concert life?

After Robert died she rather consistently presented herself as her husband's muse, often wearing black (the color of mourning)

Which of the following is NOT true:

After Rossini retired from writing operas, he went into politics

Stravinsky in the 1955 film, describes Diaghilev (the Impresario's) stunned and worried reaction when he first heard on the piano the beginning of Sacre du Printemps (consisting of 59 violent, dissonant chord repetitions) of Stravinsky's new ballet. Yet when that same Ballet caused a riot in the Theater on the premiere, Diaghilev was "delighted". Which of the following is true?

All answers are correct

The Heldentenor is which of the following:

All answers are correct

To move forward from the first theme (or the first theme group) in sonata-allegro form, a composer will usually incorporate a:

All answers are correct

Verdi is attracted to dramatic situations in which the characters are:

All answers are correct

Which is not part of the recipe for an extended Rossini crescendo?

All answers are correct

Which of the following is true of the court battle between Clara and her Father?

All answers are correct

Which of these were factors that contributed to the riot at the Premiere of the Rite of Spring?

All answers are correct

In Variation 5, which of the following is NOT true?

All of these

Which of the following statements is TRUE of Fanny Mendelssohn (Hensel)?

All statements are true

Aaron Copland's goal was to write music in a true ___________ style.

American

Which best describes the early nineteenth-century concept of the artist as exemplified by Beethoven?

An inspired soul who suffered to deliver art to humanity

Which comes closest to describing the tempo of the second movement of Symphony No. 5 in C Minor?

Andante

Schubert is considered the father of the Lied, which is the German term for what is known in English as:

Art song

"Appalachian Spring" was the music for a:

Ballet

Haydn's patron asked him to compose chamber music for which instrument?

Baryton

The name of the town in which Wagner constructed a theatre for his music dramas.

Bayreuth

Where was Wagner's Ring Cycle first performed in its entirety?

Bayreuth

Which of the following statements is NOT true?

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

Primitivism was:

Both are true

Much of the portrayal of Mozart in the film Amadeus is an erroneous fictionalization. But the final scene in this segment (Segment 12.5) accurately depicts him as an individual with an extraordinary (select two of the following).

Capacity to remember and reproduce music on just one hearing Capacity to improvise on a musical idea that he had just heard

According to most sources, Beethoven's personal life was:

Chaotic and lonely

Which solo instrument plays the Simple Gifts tune at the beginning of Section 7 from Appalachian Spring?

Clarinet

Beethoven wrote music in both the ________ style and the ________ style.

Classical; Romantic

At the end of a classical exposition there usually is a:

Coda sign

What was Stravinsky's profession?

Composer

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

Conductor

The first movement of Symphony No. 5 in C Minor begins, in the first two measures:

Loudly and emphatically

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's masterpiece is________.

Das Jahr

From what condition did Beethoven suffer?

Deafness

Which of the following operas is based on a Lorenzo Da Ponte libretto?

Don Giovanni

The first movement of Piano Concerto No. 20 in d minor is in ________ form.

Double-Exposition Form

The fifth movement of Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony depicts a:

Dream of a Witches Sabbath

The meter of the fourth movement of Symphony No. 5 in C Minor is:

Duple

An undifferentiated stream of singing and declamation, as expressed in the vocal melodies of Wagner.

Endless melody

An operatic number sung by two or more people is called a(n):

Ensemble

Haydn was fortunate in having a long and fruitful, as well as financially stable, relationship with the noble Hungarian family of:

Esterhazy

A ______________, among other things, "shows artistry", "shows beauty", has "spiritual value", and "has universality in its appeal to a great number of people".

Masterpiece

The scherzo, a fast, triple-meter movement, evolved from the:

Minuet

The name that Wagner gave to the new, more holistic, fully integrated type of opera he created.

Music drama

In order to support his family, Berlioz turned to:

Musical journalism and working in a library

What political figure inspired Beethoven in composing the Eroica Symphony?

Napoleon Bonaparte

Wagner modeled the poetry for his libretto on the style of the following medieval poem:

Nibelungenlied

Which instrument(s) plays the Simple Gifts tune in Variation 1 from Appalachian Spring?

Oboe and bassoon

Italian comic opera was called:

Opera buffa

Please indicate which of the following performing forces would usually perform the symphony:

Orchestra

Which performing ensemble plays Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?

Orchestra

As one of the first great ____________, Berlioz influenced a whole generation of musicians.

Orchestral conductors

Please select the correct layout of the exposition(s) in the first movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto in D minor, K. 466.

Orchestral exposition; solo exposition

The painter _________, also embodied primitivism in his paintings?

Pechstein

In the mid-nineteenth century, the following instrument became the center of music making in the home:

Piano

Which instrument was Beethoven performing instrument?

Piano

Please indicate which of the following performing forces would usually perform the sonata:

Piano alone; or solo instrument with piano

The piano parts of Schubert's Lieder are notable for their:

Pictorial and dramatic roles

Who was Haydn's principal employer through his long career:

Prince Nicholas Esterhazy

In sonata-allegro form, the coda (if one is present) comes after the:

Recapitulation

Mozart's final work, left incomplete at his death was____?

Requiem Mass

The following composer believed that poetry, scenic design, staging, action, and music work together to form what he referred to as a Gesamtkunstwerk:

Richard Wagner

The following composer wrote over 120 songs in 1840, which he/she referred to as his/her "year of song":

Robert Schumann

The _________ movement of Haydn's Surprise Symphony is in theme-and-variations form.

Second

Which is NOT true of Clara Schumann's personal life?

She corrected Robert's compositions whenever they collaborated

Which of the following is NOT true about Fanny Mendelssohn musical career?

She was able to publish most of her music and performed regularly in public to rave reviews from the critics

Which of the following is true about Clara Schumann's training and career?

She was compared favorably to some very famous pianists of her time, such as Franz Liszt.

The piano of Mozart's day was ______ the modern piano.

Smaller than

lease indicate which of the following performing forces would usually perform the concerto:

Soloist and orchestra

In a large part of Verdi operas the ingénue love pair are assigned to specific voice ranges (.i.e. soprano, alto, tenor, and bass) Which voice parts are usually assigned for the love pair?

Soprano and Tenor

Of the following, which is NOT a characteristic of Verdi's late operas?

Spoken dialogue for the most intense scenes

Haydn was a prolific composer, as demonstrated in part by his 68 string quartets and 104.

Symphonies

With which genre is Beethoven most closely associated?

Symphony

Which of the following was not one of Haydn's duties while in the service of the Esterházys?

Teaching music to the choir boys

Which of the following statements is not true about the "Tenore di Grazia"?

Tenore di grazia sings heroic tenor parts such as Wagner's Siegfried or Verdi's Otello

Which is true about the panpipe?

The God Pan created it to assuage his sadness over losing Sirinx

In 1830 the Paris Conservatory awarded Berlioz:

The Prix de Rome

Haydn is considered the inventor for which musical form?

The String Quartet Form

Which is not true about Rossini's coloratura Mezzo-Soprano?

The coloratura Mezzo-Soprano must have the ability to fill a large hall with a stentorian sound and sustained high notes

A feeling of harmonic tension and forward motion is created in the exposition of a sonata form movement by

The conflict of tonalities between the first and second themes

In Wagner's operas, the introduction of a leitmotiv is most commonly sounded first by:

The orchestra

What does the piano introduction of "Erlkönig" bring to mind?

The pounding and galloping of a horses' hoove

Of the following, which does not typify a Haydn Symphony?

They have three movements only

Which is true of Beethoven's style periods?

They progress from Classical to heroic to introspective

Music scholars divide Beethoven's music into ________ distinct style periods:

Three

How many different characters do you hear in "Erlkönig"?

Three plus the narrator

When a composer writes new music for each stanza of a poem, the form is known as:

Through composed

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

Tone colors

Which accurately describes the opera Don Giovanni?

Tragic and comical

According to the composer/conductor Pierre Boulez, 'Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun?' often referred to as the first composition of the "modern" era, 'awakened modern music.'

True

Debussy resented being called an 'impressionist' but he preferred being called a 'modernist' or a symbolist'.

True

Le Sacre du Printemps (Rite of Spring) was originally titled "The Victim" and portrayed a pagan celebration in which a virgin sacrifices herself to the god of spring.

True

Stravinsky rather quickly left the audience of the premiere of the Rite of Spring in fear, because of the negative response

True

The Rite of Spring depicts various primitive rituals celebrating the advent of spring, after which a young virgin girl is chosen as a sacrificial victim and dances herself to death to appease the God of Spring.

True

True or False: Verdi was used to bossing his librettists around.

True

True or False: Verdi wrote operas based on Shakespeare's plays

True

True or False? The Cabaletta is the second, faster movement of the 19th century Italian double aria, most often made up of a stanza sung twice, the second time with ornamentation, and ending with a rousing coda.

True

True/False: The Cavatina and Cabaletta almost always occur in pairs in arias of 19th century operas.

True

Unity is achieved in the classical symphony partly by the use of the same key in three of its four movements.

True

Variation 4 starts in the same key as Variation 3 ended.

True

At the beginning of Variation 2 the Simple gifts is played:

Twice as slow

Please indicate which of the following performing forces would usually perform the string quartet:

Two violins, viola, and cello

As a young boy, Mozart was showcased in ______to the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa.

Vienna

Most of Mozart's masterworks were composed in which city?

Vienna

Mozart was a child prodigy on which instrument or instruments?

Violin and keyboard

The second movement of Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony is a ______________, the most popular dance of the romantic era.

Waltz

Between the ages of six and fifteen, Mozart:

Was continually on tour in England and Europe.

Two artists whose works had a great impact on the young Berlioz were:

William Shakespeare and Ludwig van Beethoven

All of the following are characteristics of Beethoven's symphonic compositional style except

disregard and ignorance of classical forms

Please select the correct order of the sections of a sonata-allegro form.

exposition, development, recapitulation

Which musical characteristic of Beethoven's symphonies seems far from the Classical style of Mozart and Haydn?

rhythmic drive

For Richard Wagner, the function of music was to:

serve dramatic expression