Music Final Chapters 33-35

A Lied is an art song for solo voice and piano sung in ______.

German

A group of Lieder unified by a descriptive or narrative theme is known as a(n):

song cycle

A song form in which the same melody is repeated for each stanza, often heard in popular music, is known as

strophic form

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

through-composed form

According to legend, a child touched by the Elfking must die.

true

How is the character of the Elfking differentiated musically in the song?

medium range and major mode

Lieder composers often set the same text as other Lieder composers.

true

Romantic Lieder texts often speak of love and/or nature.

true

Schubert died at a young age from:

syphilis

Schubert wrote approximately_____ songs.

six hundred

Schubert wrote symphonies based on the forms established by Classical composers.

true

Schubert’s Elfking was written

early in his life

The art song became a popular repertory for amateur and professional musicians in the nineteenth century.

true

The composer normally writes the lyrics for the Lied.

false

The piano was declining in popularity at the time of the Romantic Lied.

false

The text of Elfking was written by

Goethe

Two prominent German Romantic poets whose texts were often set to music were Heinrich Heine and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

true

What expressive technique does Schubert use in the boy’s cry, "My father, my father" in Elfking?

high range and dissonance

What is the form of Schubert’s song Elfking?

through-composed

What might the triplet rhythm in the piano symbolize in Elfking?

the horse’s hooves

Which best characterizes the range for the father’s character in Elfking?

low range

Women composers wrote Lieder in the Romantic era.

true

Foster earned a huge profit from the sales of his sheet music.

false

Foster’s Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair is primarily composed in what texture?

homophonic

Foster’s My Old Kentucky Home was inspired by _____.

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin

From what type of songs did Foster earn the majority of his income?

plantation songs

Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair is a strophic song for solo voice and piano.

true

Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair is best described as a:

parlor song

Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair was the most famous of Foster’s songs during his lifetime.

false

Music in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century America was wildly divergent from European traditions.

false

Nineteenth-century parlor music in the United States was written to be accessible to amateurs.

true

Nineteenth-century songwriters in the United States combined elements of all of the following EXCEPT _____.

film music

Radio broadcasting helped popularize Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair in the 1940s.

true

Stephen Foster is known for his ballads, minstrel show tunes, and plantation songs.

true

Stephen Foster was born and raised in Kentucky.

false

Stephen Foster wrote some of his most famous songs for the Christy Minstrels

true

The music that accompanies the lyrics of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair reflects Foster’s Anglo-Irish cultural heritage

true

What famous song was composed by two sisters in the 1890s?

Happy Birthday

Which of Foster’s songs is written in the style of an Italian air?

Beautiful Dreamer

Which of the following best describes the form of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair?

AA’BA”

Which of the following songs was NOT written by Stephen Foster?

Elfking

Which of the following was a type of racially charged theatrical variety show in the United States in the nineteenth century?

minstrel show

Chopin lived a long and productive life, turning to the church in his later years.

false

Chopin paid homage to his Eastern European ancestry by composing:

mazurkas and polonaises.

Chopin was romantically involved with George Sand, the renowned:

French novelist.

Chopin’s Mazurka in B-flat Minor, Op. 24, No. 4 is in simple ternary form.

false

Chopin’s Mazurka in B-flat minor is set in _____ meter.

triple

Frédéric Chopin spent most of his productive career in:

France

Melody plays no role in Chopin’s piano music.

False

Romantic-era piano works often had fanciful titles.

True

Steinway was important in the history of the Romantic-era piano.

true

The mazurka was originally a noble, processional dance.

false

The nineteenth century was an age of great virtuoso pianists.

true

The nineteenth-century piano expanded from a range of five octaves to seven or more.

true

The piano was the most central instrument in nineteenth-century musical culture.

true

The short, lyric piano work might be considered the instrumental equivalent to the Lied.

true

There were very few technological improvements made to the piano during the nineteenth century

false

What best describes the character of Chopin’s Mazurka?

dancelike

Which city was the center of the new Romanticism of the 1830s?

Paris

Which genre is NOT a part of Chopin’s compositional output?

string quartets

Which is NOT an example of a character piece?

sonata

Which is the best definition of tempo rubato?

robbed time