Lyrical and singable
Romantic melody is best described as:
a. Disjunct and wide-ranging
b. Lyrical and singable
Chromatic and treated expressively
Romantic harmony is best described as:
a. Chromatic and treated expressively
b. Diatonic and treated objectively
Smaller orchestras
Which of the following is NOT typical of Romantic music?
a. Smaller orchestras
b. Increased dissonance for expression
c. I stress in new orchestral forms
William Shakespeare
Who was NOT an author of the Romantic era?
a. Walter Scott
b. Victor Hugo
c. William Shakespeare
A virtuoso violinist
Nicol� Paganini was:
a. A virtuoso violinist
b. A well-known conductor
c. A prominent conductor
Brahms's Symphony No. 2
Which is NOT considered a work with an "exotic" narrative?
a. A�da
b. Brahms's Symphony No. 2
c. Madame Butterfly
French horn
Which is NOT a new instrument added to the Romantic orchestra?
a. Piccolo
b. French horn
c. English horn
Strophic form
A song form in which the same melody is repeated for each stanza, often heard in popular music, is known as:
a. Through-composed music
b. Modified strophic form
c. Strophic form
Through-composed form
A song for, that is composed from beginning to end without repetitions of whole sections is called:
a. Through-composed form
b. Modified strophic form
c. Strophic form
Song cycle
A group of Lieder unified by a descriptive or narrative theme is known as a:
a. Song cycle
b. Oratorio
c. Medley
German
A Lied is an art song for solo voice and piano sung in _____.
a. French
b. German
c. Either German or French
Early in his life
Schubert's Erlking was written:
a. Early in his life
b. In the year he died
Goethe
The text of Erlking was written by:
a. Heine
b. Goethe
600
Schubert wrote approximately ___ songs.
a. 100
b. 600
Syphilis
Schubert died young from:
a. Tuberculosis
b. Cancer
c. Syphilis
Through-composed
What is the form of Schubert's song Erlking?
a. Modified strophic
b. Strophic
c. Through-composed
The horse's hooves
What does the triplet rhythm in the piano accompaniment symbolically represent in this song?
a. The seductive Erlking
b. The horse's hooves
c. The boys terror
Low range
Which best characterizes the range for the father's role in the song?
a. Medium range
b. High range
c. Low range
High range and dissonance
What expressive technique does Schubert use in the boy's cry, My Father, my father?
a. Melismatic setting
b. Major mode
c. High range and dissonance
Medium range and major mode
How is the character of the Erlking differentiated musically in the song?
a. High range and dissonant
b. Low range and minor mode
c. Medium range and major mode
France
Fr�d�ric Chopin spent most of his productive career in:
a. France
b. Poland
c. England
French novelist
Chopin was romantically involved with George Sand, the renowned:
a. French painter
b. French novelist
c. French opera composer
String quartets
Which genre is NOT a part of Chopin's compositional output?
a. Piano sonatas
b. Piano concertos
c. String quartets
Robbed time
Which is the best definition of tempo rubato?
a. Robbed time
b. In strict time
c. Quick tempo
Triple
Chopin's Mazurka in B-flat minor is set in ____ meter.
a. Compound
b. Duple
c. Triple
Dancelike
What best describes the character of the Chopin's Mazurka?
a. Marchlike
b. Evocative of Spanish culture
c. Dancelike
Mazurkas and polonaises
Chopin paid homage to his Eastern European ancestry by composing:
a. Sonatas and concertos
b. Mazurkas and polonaises
c. Preludes and nocturnes
Program music
Instrumental music that has some literary or pictorial association is called:
a. Aleatoric music
b. Program music
c. Absolute music
Absolute music
Music lacking any literary or pictorial association is called:
a. Program music
b. Incidental music
c. Absolute music
The actress Harriet Smithson
The inspiration for Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique was:
a. The actress Harriet Smithson
b. The writer George Sand
c. The composer Clara Schumann
The id�e fixe
The main theme, heard transformed in each movement of the Symphonie Fantastique?
a. The subject
b. The Dires irae
c. The id�e fixe
A diabolical march
Which best describes the character of the fourth movement of Symphonie Fantastique?
a. A witches' orgy
b. A diabolical march
c. A pastoral scene
The falling of the guillotine's blade
What does the loud chord immediately after the statement of the id�e fixe in the solo clarinet at the end of the fourth movement in Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique represent?
a. The falling of the guillotine's blade
b. The last image of his beloved
c. The
The fifth
In which movement is the Dies irae (Day of Wrath) theme from the Mass for the Dead heard?
a. The fifth
b. The fourth
c. The first
The program symphony
Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique exemplifies the type of music known as:
a. The symphonic poem
b. The program symphony
c. The concert overture
He was a German Romantic composer
Which of the following is NOT true about Hector Berlioz?
a. He was a genius at orchestration
b. Some of his works had a literary basis
c. He was a German Romantic composer
Id�e fixe
The character development in Symphonie Fantastique is realized musically through the thematic development of the____.
a. Program
b. Contrabassoon
c. Id�e fixe
Incidental music
Which of the following is a type of program music written to accompany plays?
a. Incidental music
b. Program symphony
c. Symphonic poem
Symphonic poem
Which term best describes a one-movement work for orchestra with a literary program?
a. Symphony
b. Symphonic poem
c. Program symphony
Concert overture
Which term best describes a one-movement work possibly written to introduce a larger work but played independently?
a. Symphonic poem
b. Program symphony
c. Concert overture
Franz Liszt
Which composer is generally credited with the first use of the term symphonic poem?
a. Felix Mendelssohn
b. Hector Berlioz
c. Franz Liszt
The number of movements in the work
The chief difference between a symphonic poem and a program symphony is:
a. The nature of the program
b. The number of movements in the work
c. The number of musicians involved
Incidental music
Mendelssohn's music for Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is a famous example of:
a. Incidental music
b. A tone poem
c. A program symphony
Geographic/historic, depicting actual events or places
Which type of program best describes Smetana's The Moldau?
a. Literary, based on a play of novel
b. Geographic/historic, depicting actual events or places
c. Philosophical, based on a conceptual idea
Symphonic poem
Which category of program music best describes the Moldau?
a. Symphonic poem
b. Incidental music
c. Concert overture
Scandinavian
Grieg's Peer Gynt is a work that suggests ____ nationalism.
a. Scandinavian
b. Russian
c. English
Verdi
Which nationalist composer was asked to revise his music to suit a political censor?
a. Vivaldi
b. Verdi
c. Schumann
My Country
The Moldau is part of a cycle of works known as:
a. A Poet's Life
b. My Country
c. The Four Seasons
Both a and b
Composers expressed their nationalism through music by basing their compositions on:
a. The celebration if a national hero, event, or place
b. Songs and dances of their people
c. Both a and b
Bohemian nationalist school
Bed�ich Smetana represents the:
a. Spanish nationalist school
b. Russian nationalist school
c. Bohemian nationalist school
Russian nationalist school
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov represents the:
a. Russian nationalist school
b. Polish nationalist school
c. Bohemian nationalist school
Scandinavian nationalist school
Edvard Grieg represents the:
a. Bohemian nationalist school
b. Scandinavian nationalist school
c. Russian nationalist school
Czech nationalist school
Anton�n Dv��k represents the:
a. Czech nationalist school
b. Russian nationalist school
c. Polish nationalist school
Scandinavian nationalist school
Jean Sibelius represents the:
a. Scandinavian nationalist school
b. Spanish nationalist school
c. Russian nationalist school
Spanish nationalist school
Manuel de Falla represents the:
a. Czech nationalist school
b. Scandinavian nationalist school
c. Spanish nationalist school
Small orchestra with limited winds
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the nineteenth-century symphony?
a. Colorful harmonies
b. Lyrical melodies
c. Small orchestra with limited winds
Dance or scherzo form
The third movement of a the nineteenth-century symphony is most likely in:
a. Sonata-allegro form
b. Dance or scherzo form
c. Theme and variations form
The cellos
The opening melody of the third movement of Brahms's Symphony No. 3 is given to which instrument?
a. The cellos
b. The violas
c. The violins
Robert Schumann
Which composer nurtured Brahms's talents, taking him into his home?
a. Robert Schumann
b. Franz Liszt
c. Franz Schubert
His mother
Brahms wrote his Requiem mass in memory of:
a. Richard Wagner
b. Clara Schumann
c. His mother
Four
How many symphonies did Brahms write?
a. Four
b. Twelve
c. Nine
A play by Victor Hugo
The literary basis for Verdi's Rigoletto is:
a. A comedy by William Shakespeare
b. A novel by Alexander Dumas
c. A play by Victor Hugo
An Italian court, during the Renaissance era
What is the historical setting for Rigoletto?
a. Paris, during the nineteenth century
b. An Italian court, during the Renaissance era
c. A Spanish gypsy camp, during the nineteenth century
Aida
Which is NOT a Verdi opera based on a Shakespeare play?
a. Falstaff
b. Aida
c. Otello
Aida
Which Verdi opera is set in Egypt?
a. Macbeth
b. Don Carlos
c. Aida
Nabucco
Which opera did Verdi write based on the story of the King of Babylon?
a. Nabucco
b. La forza del destino
c. Don Carlos
Four-hand piano arrangements
In the nineteenth century opera excerpts were marketed to domestic consumers via:
a. Four-hand piano arrangements
b. Wind band medleys
c. Both of the above
P. T. Barnum
The American debut tour of international singing sensation Jenny Lind was managed by:
a. P. T. Barnum
b. Robert Ripley
c. Howard Hughes
Straight-tone
Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Guillaume Tell by Gioachino Rossini both exhibit which style of singing?
a. Falsetto
b. Straight-tone
c. Bel canto
Singspiel
Light German opera featuring spoken dialogue is called:
a. Lyric opera
b. Singspiel
c. Grand opera
Music drama
What did Wagner call his large-scale sung theatrical works?
a. Music drama
b. Opera buffa
c. Grand opera
Four
How many music dramas make up Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung?
a. Six
b. Three
c. Four
Gesamtkunstwerk
Which term refers to Wagner's concept of a total artwork, encompassing all the arts?
a. Klangfarbenmelodie
b. Gesamtkunstwerk
c. Sprechstimme
A medieval German epic poem
What is the basis for the story of Die Walk�re?
a. A French play Victor Hugo
b. A medieval German epic poem
c. The legend of the Holy Grail
Nine
There are ____ Valkyries, all daughters of Wotan.
a. Five
b. Nine
c. Twelve
The father of the gods
Which best describes the character of Wotan?
a. The father of the gods
b. The god of fire
c. The fearless hero who awakens Br�nnhilde
A recurring melodic theme that signifies something
A leitmotif is:
a. A Viking ship captain
b. Nineteenth-century stage illumination
c. A recurring melodic theme that signifies something
...
Which instrument precedes Wotan's call to Loge?
a. Timpani
b. Contrabassoon
c. Trombone
The Roman Catholic Requiem Mass
From which source did Verdi select his text for his Requiem?
a. The Old and New Testaments
b. The Roman Catholic Requiem Mass
c. The Nibelungenlied
Lutheran
Verdi's Requiem is part of which Catholic tradition?
a. Lutheran
b. Methodist
c. Roman Catholic
Being excessively theatrical
Verdi's Requiem was criticized by the Church in the nineteenth century for:
a. Being in Latin
b. Being sung
c. Being excessively theatrical
Major key tonality
The Dies irae section of Verdi's requiem contains all of the following except:
a. Full orchestral accompaniment
b. Soprano solo
c. Major key tonality
A cappella performance
The Requiem aeternam section of Verdi's requiem is marked by which characteristics?
a. A cappella performance
b. Excessive use of percussion
c. Lack of chromaticism
Alessandro Manzoni
A fully completed Requiem by Verdi was dedicated to whom?
a. Alessandro Manzoni
b. Antonio Salieri
c. Gioachino is Rossini
Both a and b
In the Dies irae section of his Requiem Verdi creates a sense of awesome terror through the use of which musical tools?
a. Powerful dramatic use of dynamics
b. Dramatic orchestration including brass and percussion
c. Both a and b
Large-scale forms
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Impressionist music?
a. Blended instrument timbres
b. Parallel chords
c. Large-scale forms
Spain
Some of Ravel's music reflects his travels to:
a. Spain
b. South Africa
c. The United states
Sonata-allegro
The overall form of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Fawn" is best described as:
a. Theme and variations
b. Sonata-allegro
c. Ternary (A-B-A)
Symphonic poem
Which genre best describes the Prelude to The Afternoon of a Fawn?
a. Suite
b. Symphony
c. Symphonic poem
A mythological creature in a dreamlike state
The program for Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Fawn" concerns:
a. A mythological creature in a dreamlike state
b. A magic ring that brings bad luck to its owner
c. A baby deer just beginning to stand
Chromatic and languorous
Which best describes the character of the opening theme of Debussy's prelude to the Afternoon of a Fawn?
a. Diatonic and Dancelike
b. Disjunct and forceful
c. Chromatic and languorous
Flute
Which melodic instrument is featured in the opening melody of Debussy's prelude to the afternoon of a fawn?
a. Violin
b. Flute
c. Trumpet