Music appreciation finale

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Instrumental music based upon abstract principles of music rather than upon a text or program is called __________ music.

Absolute

American composer and bandmaster, John Philip Sousa was:

All of the above

Patter songs features

All of the above

__________ was an Irishman who became one of England's favorite composers, mainly by composing a form of which he disapproved

Arthur Sullivan

Festivals of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungenare presented annually at a theater he designed in

Bayreuth Germany

A Classical concerto usually had at least one passage, called a __________, which was improvised by the soloist alone.

Cadenza

Short, highly subjective piano compositions are called __________ pieces.

Character

The most important composer of piano music in the Romantic period and style was

Chopin

__________ was a child prodigy who was carefully trained as a pianist by Schumann's piano instructor and who established a highly successful career as a concert pianist and teacher at a prestigious conservatory of music

Clara Weick

Light in mood and concerned with everyday characters and events, __________ operas developed in several countries during the eighteenth century.

Comic

A new symphonic form that mated literary and musical concepts was called the

Concert overture

Robert Schumann wrote several beautiful sets of songs called

Cycles

When the same thematic material recurs in two or more movements of a multimovement composition, the work is

Cyclic

Using the same melody in more than one movement of a large work is called

Cyclic form

While opera buffa, Singspiel, and opéra comiquefound favor in their respective homelands, Gilbert and Sullivan created a unique operetta for __________ audiences.

English

It was the French who articulated and defended the ideas that led to the Age of Reason, but they freely acknowledged their debt to the English for pointing the way toward the intellectual movement called the

Enlightenment

The opera buffa introduced the __________ to bring an act or an opera to a musically and dramatically exciting close.

Ensemble finale

The three main sections of the Classical sonata-allegro form are the

Exposition development recapitulation

A poet before he became a musician, Wagner had lots of musical training.

False

Although Church remained a strong influence in some areas of Europe during the Classical Era, very few composers contributed to the repertoire of religious music.

False

Very few operas and very little vocal religious music was composed during the Classical period.

False

__________ was an outstanding pianist and composer, as was her more famous brother

Fanny Mendelssohn

__________ was born in Hamburg, Germany, in the same year that Abraham Lincoln was born in Hardin, Kentucky, but had every advantage of education and experience his wealthy family could offer

Felix Mendelssohn

Schubert absorbed the Classical appreciation of

Form

The overall design of a work is called its

Form

A Classical string quartet usually consists of __________ movements.

Four

Who was employed as a court composer by the same noble family for nearly thirty years?

Franz Joseph Haydn

Who was the transitional figure who composed in both the Classical and Romantic styles and the only "Viennese" composer who was actually from Vienna?

Franz Schubert

__________, the "poet of the piano," was born in Poland, but lived most of his life in Paris, France.

Frederick Chopin

,The opera Carmen, first performed in 1875, was composed by

George bizzet

The leader of the Romantic movement to write verismo opera was

Giacomo Puccini.

The finest Italian composer of the nineteenth century was

Giuseppe Verdi

Which Classical composer accepted the social and artistic restrictions of court employment?

Haydn

The two outstanding Classical composers of the late eighteenth century were

Haydn and Mozart

__________, who originally studied to become a doctor, later entered the Paris Conservatory and won the Prix de Rome, whereupon he left Paris for a year of study in Italy.

Hector beriloz

Which of the following is NOT an opera composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?

LA serva

Two Englishmen, Constable and Turner, were the greatest of all __________ painters, in accordance with their romantic love and reverence for nature.

Landscape

In Wagner's dramatic works, the orchestra was of unprecedented significance, weaving melodic fragments and chords called __________ throughout the orchestral texture.

Leitmotifs

Richard Wagner wrote all of the following operas except

Lucia di Lammermoor

__________ was one of the first major composers to use metronome markings.

Ludwig van Beetoven

__________, who had the reputation of being the best pianist in Vienna, was afflicted in his late twenties with an ear disease that eventually led to total deafness.

Ludwig van Beetoven

Brahms and __________ shared the distinction of making the best use of the choral ensemble during the Romantic period

Mendelssohn

The __________ was invented in 1816, enabling composers to indicate exactly the tempo they desired for any composition.

Metronome

During the Romantic period, art was largely supported by the __________ class, who were willing and generally able to pay for what they appreciated.

Middle

Robert Schumann wrote in all of the following genres except

Opera

The introductory orchestra piece of an opera is called the

Overture

__________ is better remembered today for his virtuosity as a violinist than as a composer

Paganini

_________, a Russian composer who studied law as a young man, became a cosmopolitan composer more influenced by the West than by his native land

Peter Tchaikovsky

The ideal solo Romantic instrument was the

Piano

Romantic multimovement symphonic compositions which had literary and programmatic orientations were called __________ symphonies.

Program

Just before he died, Mozart composed a __________.

Requiem

The most important composer of German music theater in the late nineteenth century was

Richard Wagner

__________ was an influential and gifted Romantic composer whose life was marred by depression and mental instability

Robert Schumann

A term for a romantic rhythmic technique that means "robbing" is

Rubato

For the third movement of his symphonies, Beethoven often replaced the traditional minuet with the lighter, faster

Scherzo

During the early part of the nineteenth century, history was of great interest; later in the century, the public became more interested in __________ than history, as geology proved how brief the period of recorded history was in comparison with the time humans had lived on earth.

Science

,Compared to grand opera, the opéra comiquewas

Shorter and more modest

Beethoven liked to combine forms: the __________ retains the key relationship of the sonata-allegro but alternates themes in the fashion of a rondo.

Sonato-ronda

The grand opera combined all of the following except

Spoken dialogue

Opéra comique was originally known for using __________ in some scenes.

Spoken dialouge

When Mendelssohn was only twenty years old, he organized and conducted J. S. Bach's __________ in its first performance in a hundred years.

St Matthew passion

Nineteenth-century writers, painters, and musicians were highly __________ in their approach to the arts, vividly expressing their most intimate and personal thoughts and experiences in the effort to assert their individual personalities.

Subjective

Franz Liszt created the __________, a major innovation in the field of Romantic orchestral music.

Symphonic poem

A __________ is a multi-movement work played by an orchestra and originally based on the Italian sinfonia consisting of three movements (fast-slow-fast).

Symphony

In the "Erlkönig" Schubert uses the piano to suggest

The galloping horses

A Classical concerto usually has __________ movements.

Three

It is customary to divide Beethoven's work into _____ periods.

Three

,When Haydn was criticized for writing religious music that was too "happy," he replied that he did not believe the Lord minded cheerful music.

True

An early version of the piano, called the fortepiano, was particularly well suited for the expressive music of the eighteenth century.

True

Audiences appreciated the fact that comic operas were written in their own, local language

True

Composers increasingly resisted the system of support by church or noble patronage, relying more and more on public approval of their works.

True

During the eighteenth century, concerts became more common and the public's appreciation for music increased.

True

In Wagner's ideal music drama he words and the music were of equal importance.

True

Proponents of the Enlightenment believed that knowledge is universal, truth absolute, and reason the pathway to Enlightenment.

True

Some Italian composers of the late Romantic period portrayed realistic, everyday characters in their operas called

Verismo

The musical center of the Classical style, and the city where Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven all lived and worked was

Vienna

In Robert Schumann's songs, the piano part provides each of the following except

Vocal significance

__________, a talented librettist and comic poet, wrote hilarious librettos for some of the world's most beloved operettas

W. S. Gilbert

One of history's most tragic figures, __________, began his performing career as a child prodigy.

Wolfgang

Robert Schumann discovered that the mating of __________ and music in the art song was his ideal mode of expression.

Words

Verdi's style and music reflect all of the following except

a belief that the text is more important than the music in an opera

Wagner's melodic style had each of the following characteristics except

he included separate pieces, such as arias and ballets, in his operas.

Schumann's brief career was nonetheless varied, including all of the following achievements except

he was a brilliant and well-known concert pianist.

Opera was seen as the ideal form of Romantic expression for many composers because

it was the best way to integrate music, theater, and visual arts.

Beethoven and his younger contemporary, Schubert, inherited all of the following musical traditions except

less precise notation than was used previously.

All of the following are important features of Chopin's style except

short, motivic melodies designed for intense development.

One of the changes that classical composers imposed on opera was

to lessen the differences between aria and recitative.

The Classical string quartet consisted of

two violins, viola, and cello.