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As its premeire in 1870, Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juilet Overture was |
A dismal failure |
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Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet is |
A concert overture consisting of a slow introduction and a feast movement in sonata form |
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The course of Brahm’s artistic and personal life was shaped by the influence of the composer |
Robert Schumann and his wife Clara |
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Brahms wrote masterpieces in many musical forms, but never any |
Operas |
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Brahms’s works, though very personal in style, are rooted in the music of |
All answers are correct |
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Brahms’s musical trademarks included |
The use of two notes against three |
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Verdi studied music in ___, the city where Italy’s most important opera house, La Scalia, is located |
Milan |
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Verdi’s first great success, an opera with strong political overtones, was |
Nabucco |
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Critics were often scandalized by the subject matter of verdi’s operas because they |
Seemed to condone rape, suicide, and free love |
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Which of the following operas is not by Verdi |
Turandot |
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Giuseppe Verdi mainly composed his operas |
To entertain the mass public |
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Which of the following statements is not true |
Verdi composed primarily for the Italian musical elite, those who would best appreciate his talents |
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The soul of a Verdi opera is |
Expressive vocal melody |
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Verdi’s later operas differ from his earlier ones in that they have |
All answers are correct |
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Rigoletto, the title role in Giuseppe Verdi’s opera, is all of the following except |
The romantic lover |
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The famous aria La donne e mobile is taken from Verdi’s opera |
Rigoletto |
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Giacomo Puccini’s first successful opera was |
Manon Lescaut |
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Which of the following operas was not composed by Giacomo Puccini |
Falstaff |
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An artistic trend of the 1890s, in which operas dealt with ordinary people and true to life situations, was known as |
Verismo |
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The movement in opera known as verismo is best exemplified by |
Giacomo Puccini |
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Some of Puccini’s operas feature exoticism, as in his use of melodic and rhythmic elements derived from Japanese and Chinese music in his operas |
Madame Butterfly and Turandot |
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Giacomo Puccini’s opera La Boheme, Rodolfo is a young |
Poet |
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Mimi and Rodolfo meet for the first time in La Boheme because she has come to his door to ask for a |
Light for her candle |
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Who sings the aria che gelida manina (what a little cold hand) in la boheme |
Rodolfo |
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Wagner’s preeminence was such that an opera house of his own design was built in ____ solely for performances of his music dramas |
Bayreuth, Germany |
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Wagner had an opera house built to his own specifications in |
Bayreuth |
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The composer who had an overwhelming influence on young wagner was |
Ludwig van Beethoven |
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Wagner was a virtuoso on the |
None of these is correct |
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Wagner was appointed conductor of the Dresden opera mainly because of the success of his first opera |
Rienzi |
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During Wagner’s time in Paris, he |
Was unable to get an opera performed and was reduced to musical hackwork |
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Which of the following operas was not composed by Richard Wagner |
Fidelio |
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The librettos to the ring of nibelung were written by |
Richard Wagner |
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Richard Wagner’s last opera was |
Parsifal |
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A short musical idea associated with a person, object, or thought, used by Richard Wagner in his operas, is called |
Leitmotif |
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The orchestration in Wagner’s operas is |
Full and colorful |
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Valhalla, in Wagner’s ring cycle, is |
Wotan’s cycle |
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Siegmund, in Wagner’s opera Die Walkure, is |
Wotan’s son by mortal woman |
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At the end of the first act of Wagner’s opera die walkure |
All answers are correct |
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While Wagner’s ring cycle features fantastical elements such as gods, giants, and magic, the opera is really about |
Nineteenth-century society and culture |
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