music test 3
Which is the best definition of "tempo rubato"?
"robbed" time
Which is NOT a Verdi opera based on a Shakespeare play?
Aida
Which of the following songs was NOT written by Stephen Foster?
Coal Black Rose
What best describes the character of Chopin's Mazurka?
Dancelike
T/F: According to legend, a child touched by the Elfking must die.
False
T/F: The scherzo movement in nineteenth-century symphonies generally is characterized by a slow march tempo.
False
After his conservatory studies, Chopin spent most of his productive career in _____
France
A Lied is an art song for piano and solo voice sung in _______
German
In writing Peer Gynt, with which playwright did Grieg collaborate?
Henrik Ibsen
What is unusual about the ending of the song In the Lovely Month of May?
It doesn't cadence on the tonic
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Robert Schumann's In the Lovely Month of May?
It's in through-composed form
Which of the following was a type of racially charged theatrical variety show in the United States in the nineteenth century?
Minstrel show
The American debut tour of international singing sensation Jenny Lind was managed by _____
P.T. Barnum
Which composer nurtured Brahms's talents, going as far as taking him into his home?
Robert Schumann
Which of these operas exhibited the high point of the singing style known as bel canto?
Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia
Edvard Grieg represents the _____ nationalist school.
Scandinavian
T/F: Romantic-era piano works often had fanciful titles.
True
The literary basis for Verdi's Rigoletto is ____
a play by victor hugo
The third movement of a nineteenth-century symphony is most likely in _____ form.
dance or scherzo
T/F: After her husband's composing career began to flourish, Giuseppina Strepponi enjoyed continued success as an opera singer into her last years.
false
T/F: Censors did not concern themselves with political representation in nineteenth-century operas.
false
T/F: Hector Berlioz invented the symphonic poem.
false
T/F: In the twenty-first century, composers do not write nationalistic works.
false
T/F: Instrumental music that has some literary or pictorial association is absolute music.
false
T/F: Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair was the most famous of Foster's songs during his lifetime.
false
T/F: Jenny Lind was a famous nineteenth-century composer of opera
false
T/F: Most Lied composers wrote their own words for the song
false
T/F: Music in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century America was wildly divergent from European traditions
false
T/F: Once Adophe Sax developed the saxophone, it became a permanent and popular part of orchestral music
false
T/F: Rigoletto is an opera based on Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
false
T/F: Romantic Lieder texts often speak of love and/or nature
false
T/F: The Romantic symphony follows the exact forms and proportions of the Classical genre of Beethoven.
false
T/F: The piano changed little technically during the nineteenth century.
false
T/F: The piano was declining in popularity at the time of the Romantic Lied
false
Nineteenth-century songwriters in the United States combined elements of all of the following EXCEPT _____
film music
How many symphonies did Brahms write?
four
Foster's My Old Kentucky Home was inspired by _____
his extensive visits to the 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
Which of the following did NOT make improved instruments possible in the nineteenth century?
household electrification
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
Chopin was romantically involved with George Sand, the renowned French _____
novelist
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
In the nineteenth century, opera excerpts were NOT marketed to domestic consumers via _____
radio broadcasts
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the nineteenth-century symphony?
small orchestra with limited words
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
In which movement is the Dies irae (Day of Wrath) theme from the Mass for the Dead heard?
the fifth
A song form that is composed from beginning to end without repetitions of whole sections is in which form?
through-composed form
T/F: Berlioz was a devoted fan of Beethoven.
true
T/F: Giuseppe Verdi viewed himself as an Italian nationalist composer.
true
T/F: Hector Berlioz looked to the writings of Shakespeare as the basis for both operas and symphonic works.
true
T/F: Instrumental music that has some literary or pictorial association is called program music.
true
T/F: Nationalistic program music might evoke a landscape.
true
T/F: Nineteenth-century Italian opera is characterized by the use of the bel canto style of singing.
true
T/F: Nineteenth-century parlor music in the United States was written to be accessible to amateurs
true
T/F: Stephen Foster is known for his ballads, minstrel show tunes, and plantation songs.
true
T/F: The Romantic symphony featured an orchestra larger than that of the Classical masters.
true
T/F: The first movement of a Romantic symphony is usually the most dramatic and features the use of sonata-allegro form.
true
T/F: The music that accompanies the lyrics of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair reflects Foster's Anglo-Irish cultural heritage
true
T/F: The nineteenth century was an age of great virtuoso pianists.
true
T/F: The piano was the most central instrument in nineteenth-century musical culture.
true
T/F: The short, lyric piano work might be considered the instrumental equivalent to the nineteenth-century Lied.
true
T/F: Two prominent German Romantic poets whose texts were often set to music were Heinrich Heine and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
true
T/F: Unlike the symphonic poem the genre of symphony is often absolute music, without a program.
true
T/F:In the nineteenth century Theobald Boehm improved the flute, making it metal rather than wood.
true
Which of the following was NOT a way that programmatic composers portrayed nationalistic sentiments in nineteenth-century music?
utilizing ritornello form
