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started to lose his hearing. |
In his late 20s, Beethoven _________________. |
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piano and orchestra |
Most of Chopin’s music is for ______________. |
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start at the same time as the voice |
In his songs, Schumann frequently has the piano _____________. |
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18 |
Schubert composed "Erlkonig" when he was ______________. |
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director of the National Conservatory of Music in New York |
While he was composing this work, Dvorak was taking a vacation from his job as _____________. |
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30 variations |
The final movement of Brahm’s Symphony no. 4 has one theme and ________________. |
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the premiere of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro |
What late eighteenth-century event opened up new ways of connecting music and politics? |
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He creates contrast in the middle variations by using a major key and a slower tempo. |
How does Brahms superimpose a ternary (ABA) form on a set of variations? |
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financial support from a wealthy widow |
Tchalkovsky’s career as a composer was made possible by _____________. |
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critic |
Robert Schumann was influential as a composer and a ______________. |
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the fairies |
Which character(s) is/are represented by a high-pitched, scurrying theme? |
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Beethoven |
During his lifetime, Brahms was compared to ____________. |
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brass and percussion |
The fourth movement of the Symphonie fantastique makes particularly creative use of which sections of the orchestra? |
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Maryland |
Although he opposed slavery, Gottschalk did perform in some slave states during the Civil War, including ___________. |
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declamatory style of singing |
In recitative, singers use a ____________. |
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passionate speech |
Chopin used "tempo rubato" to make his music sound more like ___________. |
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imperial Indian courts in the nineteenth century |
Ravi Shankar’s fame was greatest in ______________. |
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Italian unification |
Verdi’s Nabucco was a thinly veiled support for _______________. |
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Brahms takes a complex theme and makes it simple for listeners to understand. |
Why can the finale of Brahm’s Fourth Symphony be considered an example of compositional virtuosity? |
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Beethoven |
During his lifetime, Brahms was compared to _______________. |
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the conductor |
Who is responsible for interpreting a ballet’s scenario? |
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basic outline of the story to be told through music and dance |
What is a scenario? |
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the new instruments that were inverted at the end of the nineteenth century |
The large orchestra required for Brahm’s Symphony no. 4 reflects ____________. |
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Titles rarely point the way toward the extramusical meaning |
Which of the following is true of program music? |
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opera combined with dance |
A bellte is essentially a(n) ______________. |
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It gives a melody of festive character. |
How does the use of the oboe influence the character of the "Swan Theme"? |
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The strophes containing "Forward!" are louder. |
Schumann indicates that the strophes containing the word "Forward!" should be sung differently from the two others. How are they different? |
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declamatory, so his audience can understand the text |
Wagner’s vocal lines are _____________. |
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Siegfried kills Rothbart. |
At the end of the ballet, how is Rothbart’s spell broken? |
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music he had written himself, to highlight his virtuosity |
What kind of music did Gottschalk play, almost exclusively, at his concerts? |
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cyclic |
When the individual movements of a large work are related in a tangible and distinct way, the piece is said to be _____________. |
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fortissimo |
A noisy kitchen is roughly equivalent to the dynamic level ___________. |
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spectacular orchestral effects |
Even Belioz’s detraction praised his _____________. |
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placing the word Himmel ("heaven") in a high register |
An example of word painting in "Forward!" would be _____________. |
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The laws strictly regulated social gathering, but allowed for charcoal groups. |
Why was choral music popular during the 1840s? |
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W.A. Mozart |
As a child prodigy who toured much of Europe at a young age, Medelssohn was similar to _____________. |
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It is longer and more musically varied. |
How does Schubert’s setting of Goethe’s poem compare to other previous settings? |
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a piece from the Baroque Era |
Brahms based the theme of the finale of Symphony no. 4 on ____________. |
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brass and winds |
In the fourth movement of the Symphonie Fantastique, whenever the B section sounds, which instruments predominate? |
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pride in his Polish heritage |
Chopin’s choice to compose mazurkas reflects his ___________. |
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sell tickets |
Which of these is NOT normally the responsibility of a conductor? |
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it consists of instruments that all play in a high range |
The piano trio is an appealing ensemble because ________________. |
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the melody and form imitates a song even though there is no text |
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel called the third movement of her Piano Trio in D Minor a "song" because _____________. |
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put new, pro-Confederate words to "Yankee Doodle" |
During the Civil War, the South _____________. |
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don’t have a conductor |
String quartets differ from orchestras in that quartets _____________. |
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the virtuosity of the singing got in the way of the words and the drama |
Wagner’s view of nineteenth-century opera was that ______________. |
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Wagner himself to make sure the audience understood the drama |
The names of the various Leitmotifs come from _______________. |
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drew on the same Norse myths |
Both Wagner and J.R.R. Tolkien (author of the Lord of the Rings series) ____________. |
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a particular rhythmic pattern |
What feature enables listeners to identity a mazurka? |
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evoke a particular mood |
A character piece is intended to _____________. |
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