Music 4
The Erlking (a song by Schubert) uses as a text a poem by
Goethe
The most famous riot in music history occurred in Paris in 1913 at the first performance of
Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring
All of the following composers worked in the early years of the twentieth century except
J. S. Bach
Stravinsky was honored by President __________ on his 80th birthday.
Kennedy
All of the following composers worked in the early years of the twentieth century except
L. V. Beethoven
The composer whose career was a model for many romantic composers was
Ludwig van Beethoven
Which of the following is not an romantic composer?
Mozart
In 1892, Dvořák went to ___________, where he spent almost three years as director of the National Conservatory of Music.
New York
Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème takes place in
Paris
The famous aria La donna è mobile is taken from Giuseppe Verdi's opera
Rigoletto
The 12-tone system was invented by _________
Schoenberg
In the first movement of the New World Symphony, Dvořák introduces a gracious melody that resembles the spiritual
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Antonin Dvořák's Symphony no. 9
glorifies Czech and American folk spirits is his most famous work is subtitled From the New World all of the above
The word __________ is commonly used for a romantic art song with a German text.
lied
Mimi and Rodolfo meet for the first time in Puccini's La Bohème because she has come to his door to ask for a
light for her candle
The favorite instrument of the romantic age was the
piano
The technique of using two or more tonal centers at the same time is called
polytonality
Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) is an example of
primitivism
In music, the early twentieth century was a time of
revolt and change
An art song is a musical composition for
solo voice and piano
A group of art songs organized around a single topic is called a
song cycle
Up to about 1900, chords were divided into two opposing types: consonant and _________.
dissonant
In the Romantic Period, the was prominent use of ___________harmony.
chromatic
The first significant atonal pieces were composed around 1908 by
Arnold Schoenberg
A great twentieth-century composer who was also a leading scholar of the folk music of his native land was
Béla Bartók
Romantic style flourished in music during the period 1750-1820.
False
Which of the following statements is not true?
Twentieth-century music follows the same general principles of musical structure as earlier periods
Franz Schubert was born in
Vienna
Rigoletto, the title character in Giuseppe Verdi's opera, is
a court jester to the duke of Mantua the father of Gilda a hunchback all of the above
Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring is scored for
an enormous orchestra
The absence of key or tonality in a musical composition is known as
atonality
The soul of a Verdi opera is
expressive vocal melody
An orchestra toward the end of the romantic period might include close to 24 musicians.
false
Joseph Haydn was associated with the romantic period.
false
The piano's relentless rhythm in Erlkönig (The Erlking) unifies the episodes of the song and suggests the
galloping horse
Stravinsky's enormous influence on twentieth-century music is due to his innovations in
tone color harmony rhythm all of the above
Stravinsky drew on a vast range of styles, from Russian folk songs to baroque melodies, from Renaissance madrigals to tango rhythms, to create original music.
true
The orchestra in the romantic period was larger and more varied in tone color than the classical orchestra.
true
The orchestra in the romantic period
was larger and more varied in tone color than the classical orchestra