Music Appreciation ch. 35-41

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Which of the following choral genres was NOT developed during the Baroque?

part song

A musical setting of the Mass for the Dead is called:

a Requiem

Oratorios primarily drew their stories from:

the Bible

Mozart’s Requiem was:

his last work, incomplete at his death

Who completed Mozart’s Requiem?

Süssmayr

The Dies irae text from the Requiem Mass describes:

Judgement Day

Which of the following correctly describes the musical forces for Mozart’s Requiem?

winds, brass, strings, timpani, choir, and four soloists

The ________ accompanies the baritone voice in the Tuba mirum section of Mozart’s Requiem.

trombone

Which of the following best describes the mood of the Dies irae from Mozart’s Requiem?

fearful and then wondering

The text of Mozart’s Requiem is sung in:

Latin

The German term for the art song is:

Lied

A song whose text is a short lyric poem in German with piano accompaniment is called a:

Lied

_______ was NOT an important composer of nineteenth-century Lieder.

Heinrich Heine

Which of the following was NOT a typical theme of Romantic poetry?

praise of the Virgin Mary

The favorite subjects of the Romantic poets were:

love, longing, and nature

A group of Lieder unified by a narrative thread or by a descriptive or expressive theme is called a(n):

song cycle

A song form in which the same melody is repeated for every stanza of text is called:

strophic

A song that is composed from beginning to end without repetition of whole sections is called:

through composed

A song form in which the main melody is repeated for two or three stanzas but introduces new or significantly varied material when the text requires it is called:

modified strophic

Schubert was born in:

Vienna

Schubert and his friends organized evening gatherings of artists, writers, and musicians, called:

Schubertiads

Schubert lived a tragically short life but was a remarkably prolific composer of:

Lieder, chamber music, piano music (all of the above)

In which genre was Schubert NOT indebted to Classical traditions?

Lied

Approximately how many songs did Schubert compose?

more than 600

Schubert wrote several song cycles, including:

Winter’s Journey

Schubert’s song Elfking is a setting of a ballad written by:

Geothe

Schubert’s Lied Elfking is in ________ form.

through-composed

Which of the following is true of Schubert’s Elfking?

It is the masterpiece of his youth, It is based on a legend that whoever is touched by the king of the elves must die, It presents four characters who are differentiated in the music (all of the above)

In Schubert’s Elfking, the obsessive triplet rhythm of the piano accompaniment represents:

the galloping of the horse

Which musical devices does Schubert use to portray the child’s terror in Elfking?

high range and dissonance

The composer who founded the New Journal of Music was:

Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann’s wife, Clara, was:

the daughter of his piano teacher, one of the foremost pianists of her day, the inspiration for A Poet’s Love (all of the above)

Robert Schumann ended his career and life:

in an asylum, the result of a mental illness

Robert Schumann’s A Poet’s Love is a:

song cycle

Robert Schumann’s A Poet’s Love is set to texts by:

Heinrich Heine

Which of the following does NOT describe Schumann’s A Poet’s Love?

it tells a detailed story of a lost love

Schumann’s In the lovely month of May is from which song cycle?

A Poet’s Love

What is the form of In the lovely month of May?

strophic

Which of the following does NOT describe Schumann’s In the lovely month of May?

it ends with harmonic resolution

Which of the following does NOT describe American popular music of the nineteenth century?

the composers were always well known

Which of the following describes music in America during the early nineteenth century?

music was largely imported through Europe

What is vernacular music?

popular songs sung in a country’s native language

What nationality was Stephen Foster?

American

Which nineteenth-century American composer is best remembered for his parlor songs and minstrel show tunes?

Stephen Foster

Which of the following best describes minstrelsy?

shows that featured performers in blackface

Stephen Foster composed all of the following songs EXCEPT:

When Johnny Comes Marching Home

Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair is:

a parlor song

The form of Foster’s Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair is:

strophic

Foster’s Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair is based on a poem by:

Foster himself

The most important keyboard instrument of the Romantic period was the:

piano

Which of the following does NOT characterize the piano?

it is capable of only one dynamic level

Which of the following instruments is capable of playing both melody and harmony?

piano

Which of the following was NOT a technical improvement to the nineteenth-century piano?

a second keyboard was added

The short, lyric piano piece is the instrumental equivalent of:

the song

During the nineteenth century, "Prelude," "Impromptu," and "Intermezzo" were common titles for:

character pieces

Nineteenth-century composers of the short, lyric piano piece included:

Johannes Brahms, Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann (all of the above)

Chopin is credited with developing the:

modern piano style

Which nineteenth-century composer’s entire output centered around the piano?

Chopin

Chopin spent his early years in:

Poland

Chopin spent most of his productive life in:

Paris

With which famous novelist did Chopin become romantically involved?

George Sand

Chopin composed works in all of the following genres EXCEPT the:

symphony

Which of the following does NOT characterize the music of Chopin?

reserved emotions

What is the origin of the mazurka?

a Polish peasant dance

Which of the following does NOT characterize Chopin’s Mazurka in B-flat Minor, Op. 24, No. 4?

simple A-B-A form

In connection with Chopin’s music, the term rubato means that the performer should:

take liberties with the tempo

Which composer is known as the "poet of the piano"?

Frédéric Chopin

Which of the following best describes the role of women in nineteenth-century music?

the piano provided women with a socially acceptable performance outfit

Which of the following was a noted woman composer of the Romantic era?

Clara Schumann

Which of the following women organized salons featuring music by her brother?

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel was discouraged from pursuing a career as a composer because:

she was a woman

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s output is dominated by:

Lieder and piano music

Which of the following composed the piano cycle The Year?

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel wrote her cycle The Year for:

piano

The manuscript for Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s September: At the River, from The Year, has poetic lines by:

Johann Wolfgang von Geothe

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s September: At the River, from The Year, is in ________ form.

A-B-A’

How does Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s The Year reach a level of achievement beyond that of her brother Felix?

it is a large-scale work unified by musical and extramusical links

In which country was Franz Liszt born?

Hungary

Which composer is generally considered the greatest pianist and showman of the Romantic era?

Liszt

Liszt was inspired by the virtuoso violinist:

Paganini

Which of the following was the first internationally acclaimed American composer of classical music?

Louis Moreau Gottschalk

Louis Moreau Gottschalk was born in:

New Orleans

Louis Moreau Gottschalk is best known for his ________.

solo piano music

Which of the following statements about Louis Moreau Gottschalk is NOT true?

he spent most of his creative life in Europe

Louis Moreau Gottschalk based many of his works on:

South American and Caribbean songs

Which of the following does NOT characterize Gottschalk’s The Banjo?

limited range

The familiar tune quoted near the end of Gottschalk’s work The Banjo is:

Camptown Races

Instrumental music endowed with literary, philosophical, or pictorial associations is called:

program music

Which of the following compositions is LEAST likely to be an example of program music?

string quartet in B-flat major

Music composed without literary or pictorial meanings is called

absolute music

A multimovement, programmatic work for orchestra is called a:

program symphony

Which of the following composers is considered the first great exponent of musical Romanticism in France?

Berlioz

Hector Berlioz was born and spent most of his career in:

France

Which of the following is NOT characteristic of the music of Berlioz?

as is typical of French music, emotions are restrained

Which of the following is NOT a work by Berlioz?

Italian Symphony

Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique is an example of a:

program symphony

How many movements are in Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique?

five

Which of the following inspired Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique?

the actress Harriet Smithson

Which of the following is NOT true of Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique?

the program deals entirely with nature

In Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, the idée fixe:

symbolizes the beloved, recurs as required by the literary program, unifies the five movements, which are diverse in character and mood (all of the above)

In Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, what is the idée fixe?

the basic theme of the symphony, heard in the march movement

The technique of altering a theme to give it a different character is often called:

thematic transformation

Which of the following does NOT characterize the March to the Scaffold from Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique?

dominance of the string instruments

The Dies irae is:

a chant from the Mass for the Dead

The piano manufacturer in New York that made major improvements to the instrument was:

Steinway

Through which innovation did Theobald Boehm improve musical instruments?

key mechanism for woodwinds

What new instrument was developed in the nineteenth century?

saxophone

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