Multiple Choice Questions

An important Romantic composer founded The New Journal of Music, an influential musical periodical in which this same composer frequently published his own musical criticism and promoted the works of other musicians. His name is:
  • Liszt
  • Romantic composers worked with traditional forms but expanded them in innovative ways to meet their expressive needs.
  • Johann Strauss Jr.
  • Schumann
According to the text, art of the Romantic period valued emotional restraint and clarity of form.
  • True
  • False
This composer pictured above wrote The Blue Danube, arguably the most famous waltz of all time. His name is:
  • Liszt
  • Schumann
  • Johann Strauss Jr.
  • Romantic composers worked with traditional forms but expanded them in innovative ways to meet their expressive needs.
In broad terms, music and the other arts of the Romantic period...
  • Held reverence for the music of the masters
  • Gave full expression to a wide range of feelings, dreams, and the heroic human potential.
  • It expresses strong emotion through extreme loud and soft dynamics, wide pitch ranges, and a variety of timbres.
  • Rules and logic are less important that the free expression of human feelings. Humans can only "fully become" by exploring their inner feelings.
The following excerpt is from Chopin's Revolutionary Étude.[player :15]
  • True
  • False
The following piano sonata was composed by one of the first female virtuoso performers. Identify this composer.[player 2:35]
  • Brahms
  • Frédéric Chopin
  • Clara Wieck Schumann
  • False
During the Romantic period, choral music enjoyed its highest popularity since the Renaissance period.
  • True
  • False
Which of the following was not a member of the Five?
  • Eugene Delacroix
  • Excerpt C
  • Pyotr Tchaikovksy
  • Excerpt B
Which of the following statements best characterizes the "mood" of the Romantic period?
  • Excerpt C
  • Wagner
  • Eugene Delacroix
  • Rules and logic are less important that the free expression of human feelings. Humans can only "fully become" by exploring their inner feelings.
Which of the following was NOT known as a composer of choral music?
  • Chopin
  • Excerpt D
  • Wagner
  • Excerpt B
The composer pictured above is best known for taking older forms and styles and redefining them in modern ways. Antonín Dvorák was inspired by his Hungarian Dance No.What is this composer's name?[player 3:02]
  • Brahms
  • Romantic composers worked with traditional forms but expanded them in innovative ways to meet their expressive needs.
  • Schumann
  • Liszt
According to the text, which of the following are Post-Romantic composers?
  • Rachmaninoff and Holst
  • Held reverence for the music of the masters
  • False
  • Mazurka
The following difficult piece for the violin was written by one of the few musicians of the time who could play it. Identify this composer.[player 1:55]
  • Frédéric Chopin
  • Wagner
  • Paganini
  • Clara Wieck Schumann
Which one of the following is not a general characteristic of Romantic music:
  • Rachmaninoff and Holst
  • Jean Sibelius
  • Held reverence for the music of the masters
  • Compositions were based on logic and controlled feelings.
According to the text, which of the following is NOT considered a form of program music?
  • Mazurka
  • False
  • Held reverence for the music of the masters
  • Excerpt C
The following choral work, based on the German Bible, was written by:[player 7:09]
  • Clara Wieck Schumann
  • Brahms
  • Paganini
  • Chopin
From the following composers, select the one that best understood the intrinsic nature and potential of the piano as an expressive instrument:
  • Excerpt D
  • Paganini
  • Frédéric Chopin
  • Richard Wagner
Who was NOT a nationalist composer?
  • Liszt
  • Russian music
  • Johann Strauss Jr.
  • Brahms
The Five was a group of nationalist composers who sought to incorporate elements of ______________ in their work.
  • Russian music
  • Johann Strauss Jr.
  • Romantic composers worked with traditional forms but expanded them in innovative ways to meet their expressive needs.
  • True
Which one of these composers was considered a national hero in his homeland?
  • Arnold Schoenberg
  • William Walton
  • Jean Sibelius
  • Erik Satie
Which of the following excerpts features frequently changing tempos?[player :40]
  • Chopin
  • Excerpt D
  • Excerpt C
  • Excerpt B
Which of the following composers, upon arriving in Paris in 1831, quickly became closely associated with the most prominent intellectuals, artists, musicians, political activists, and financiers of his day, thus launching his career?
  • Chopin
  • Frédéric Chopin
  • Eugene Delacroix
  • Excerpt D
Which of the following excerpts is most likely a composition by Paganini?[player :24]
  • Chopin
  • Excerpt C
  • Excerpt B
  • Excerpt D
Which of the following is an example of increasing tempo (accelerando), and the increasing excitement that goes with it?[player :52]
  • Excerpt C
  • Excerpt D
  • Wagner
  • Chopin
The melody in this composition is representative of Romantic music because it:[player :34]
  • Is long, flowing, and lyrical
  • Dynamics range from extreme soft to very loud
  • Clara Wieck Schumann
  • Rachmaninoff and Holst
The following selection is from Berlioz's Symphony Fantastique.[player :48]
  • True
  • False
Which of the following statements best describes musical form in the Romantic period?
  • Schumann
  • Romantic composers worked with traditional forms but expanded them in innovative ways to meet their expressive needs.
  • Liszt
  • Johann Strauss Jr.
The name of the composer pictured above, who wrote more than 600 art songs (lieder), is:
  • Liszt
  • Schumann
  • Franz Schubert
  • Brahms
The dynamics of this excerpt indicate that it was composed in the Romantic period because:[player :24]
  • Is long, flowing, and lyrical
  • Dynamics range from extreme soft to very loud
  • Compositions were based on logic and controlled feelings.
  • Chopin
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