Multiple Choice Questions

The composer who developed the symphonic poem was
  • Bedřich Smetana.
  • William Shakespeare.
  • Robert Schumann and his wife Clara.
  • Franz Liszt.
The writer whose works had the greatest impact on the young Berlioz was
  • Robert Schumann and his wife Clara.
  • Beethoven
  • William Shakespeare.
  • Giacomo Puccini.
Which of the following is not characteristic of romanticism?
  • thematic transformation.
  • An emphasis on balance and clarity of structures
  • seemed to condone rape, suicide, and free love.
  • pianist
The founder of Czech national music was
  • William Shakespeare.
  • to entertain a mass public.
  • Milan
  • Bedřich Smetana.
At its premiere in 1870, Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Overture was
  • Emotional restraint
  • Niccolò Paganini.
  • Richard Wagner
  • a dismal failure.
The movement in opera known as verismo is best exemplified by
  • Giacomo Puccini.
  • William Shakespeare.
  • Franz Liszt.
  • All answers are correct.
Liszt's piano works are characterized by
  • All answers are correct.
  • the use of two notes against three.
  • solo voice and piano.
  • African American spirituals.
Chopin expressed his love of Poland by composing polonaises and
  • mazurkas
  • to entertain a mass public.
  • symphonic poem
  • operas.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • a wealthy benefactress who provided Tchaikovsky with an annuity.
  • to entertain a mass public.
  • began to study music theory at the age of twenty-one.
  • nationalism
While Wagner's Ring cycle features fantastical elements such as gods, giants, and magic, the opera is really about
  • to entertain a mass public.
  • was unable to get an opera performed and was reduced to musical hackwork.
  • nineteenth-century society and culture.
  • symphonic poem
Altering the character of a melody by changes in dynamics, orchestration, or rhythm is a romantic technique known as
  • All answers are correct.
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • thematic transformation.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach.
Mendelssohn is known as the man who rekindled an interest in the music of
  • Richard Wagner
  • Johann Sebastian Bach.
  • All answers are correct.
  • solo voice and piano.
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.
  • African American spirituals.
  • Emotional restraint
  • thematic transformation.
Schubert's primary source of income came from his
  • Emotional restraint
  • Richard Wagner
  • All answers are correct.
  • musical compositions.
The deliberate intent to draw creative inspiration from the composer's own homeland is known as
  • polonaise
  • Richard Wagner
  • pianist
  • nationalism
Clara Wieck was
  • African American spirituals.
  • None of these are correct.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach.
  • All answers are correct.
In 1892, Dvořák went to ________, where he spent almost three years as director of the National Conservatory of Music.
  • New York
  • nocturne.
  • program music.
  • exoticism.
Brahms's musical trademarks included
  • the use of two notes against three.
  • All answers are correct.
  • instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene.
  • musical compositions.
As a youth, Franz Liszt was influenced by the performances of
  • Richard Wagner
  • solo voice and piano.
  • Niccolò Paganini.
  • a dismal failure.
Instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene, popular during the romantic period, is called
  • Richard Wagner
  • program music.
  • polonaise
  • Bayreuth, Germany
Nonprogram music is also known as ________ music.
  • polonaise
  • tone colors
  • absolute
  • Nabucco
The soul of a Verdi opera is
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • expressive vocal melody.
  • None of these are correct.
  • All answers are correct.
Mendelssohn wrote in all musical forms except
  • Johann Sebastian Bach.
  • to entertain a mass public.
  • operas.
  • symphonic poem
Verdi's first great success, an opera with strong political overtones, was
  • Johann Sebastian Bach.
  • New York
  • Nabucco
  • nocturne.
Wagner was a virtuoso on the
  • None of these are correct.
  • expressive vocal melody.
  • the use of two notes against three.
  • All answers are correct.
The citizen's sense of national identity and patriotic feelings were intensified by
  • All answers are correct.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach.
  • African American spirituals.
  • solo voice and piano.
Brahms's works, though very personal in style, are rooted in the music of
  • Johann Sebastian Bach.
  • solo voice and piano.
  • All answers are correct.
  • African American spirituals.
Parisians were startled by Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony because of its
  • African American spirituals.
  • All answers are correct.
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • a dismal failure.
The librettos to The Ring of the Nibelung were written by
  • a dismal failure.
  • Richard Wagner
  • All answers are correct.
  • Niccolò Paganini.
Music criticism was a source of income for both Hector Berlioz and
  • Robert Schumann.
  • Richard Wagner
  • a dismal failure.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach.
Drawing creative inspiration from cultures of lands foreign to the composer is known as
  • pianist
  • exoticism.
  • Emotional restraint
  • tone colors
The Fantastic Symphony reflects Berlioz's
  • African American spirituals.
  • solo voice and piano.
  • All answers are correct.
  • love for the actress Harriet Smithson.
Berlioz was extraordinarily imaginative in treating the orchestra, creating ________ never before heard.
  • leitmotif
  • tone colors
  • nocturne.
  • New York
Liszt created the ________, a one-movement orchestral composition based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea.
  • symphonic poem
  • mazurkas
  • operas
  • to entertain a mass public.
Schubert
  • love for the actress Harriet Smithson.
  • the use of two notes against three.
  • was the first great master of the romantic art song.
  • seemed to condone rape, suicide, and free love.
Giuseppe Verdi mainly composed his operas
  • All answers are correct.
  • to entertain a mass public.
  • love for the actress Harriet Smithson.
  • nineteenth-century society and culture.
Until the age of thirty-six, Franz Liszt toured Europe as a virtuoso
  • exoticism.
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • pianist
  • a dismal failure.
The orchestra in the romantic period
  • Bedřich Smetana.
  • All answers are correct.
  • Robert Schumann and his wife Clara.
  • was larger and more varied in tone color than the classical orchestra.
Program music is
  • the use of two notes against three.
  • love for the actress Harriet Smithson.
  • instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene.
  • absolute
Critics were often scandalized by the subject matter of Verdi's operas because they
  • All answers are correct.
  • tone colors
  • seemed to condone rape, suicide, and free love.
  • exoticism.
Which of the following was not a member of the Russian five?
  • thematic transformation.
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • Niccolò Paganini.
  • An emphasis on balance and clarity of structures
A slow, lyrical, intimate composition for piano, associated with evening and nighttime, is the
  • nocturne.
  • tone colors
  • leitmotif
  • exoticism.
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