Music Class Study Guide

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Chapter Number: P05

Question: Romantic composers rarely used dynamic markings and other expressive comments in

their scores to communicate their intentions to musicians. T/F

Question: Nationalistic feelings inspired composers to incorporate folk songs and dances fromtheir native lands into their works. T/F

Question: Symphonies by Romantic composers are shorter than those of the Classical era. T/F

Question: Robert Schuman was a composer as well as a: _________________.

Question: Which of the following is NOT typical of Romantic music?

Question: Which is NOT a new instrument added to the Romantic orchestra?

Chapter Number: 27

Question: Romantic Lieder texts often speak of love and/or nature. T/F

Question: Robert Schumann met his wife Clara:

Question: A Poet's Love is one of Schumann's best-known:

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

sections is called:

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

Question: A song form in which the same melody is repeated for each stanza, often heard in

popular music, is known as:

Question: Robert Schumann lived a long and productive life. T/F

Question: Schubert wrote approximately_____ songs.

Question: The piano was declining in popularity at the time of the Romantic Lied. T/F

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

T/F

Question: A group of Lieder unified by a descriptive or narrative theme is known as a:

Question: Robert Schumann was a renowned music critic and conductor. T/F


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Chapter Number: 28

Question: The piano became a popular instrument for amateur musicians in the nineteenth

century. T/F

Question: Chopin paid homage to his Eastern European ancestry by composing:

Question: Frdric Chopin spent most of his productive career in:

Question: Which is the best definition of "tempo rubato"?

Question: The short lyric piano work might be considered the instrumental equivalent to the

nineteenth-century song. T/F

Chapter Number: 29

Question: Music publication in early America was largely comprised of what kind of music?

Question: Stephen Fosters music is inspired by the time he spent living in the American South.

T/F

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

T/F

Chapter Number: 30

Question: Which type of program best describes Smetanas The Moldau?

Question: Which of the following is a type of program music written to accompany plays?

Question: Composers expressed their nationalism through music by basing their compositions

on:

Question: What does the loud chord immediately after the statement of the ide fixe at the end of

the fourth movement in Berliozs Symphonie fantastique represent?

Question: Berliozs innovations include his orchestration effects. T/F

Question: Griegs Peer Gynt was the result of a collaborative work with which playwright?

Question: Which term describes a one-movement work for orchestra with a literary program?

Question: Which category of program music best describes Peer Gynt?


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Question: Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique exemplifies the type of program music known as:

Question: The main theme, heard transformed in each movement of the Symphonie fantastique,

is called:

Question: Music lacking any literary or pictorial association is called:

Question: Instrumental music that has some literary or pictorial association is called:

Question: The chief difference between a symphonic poem and a program symphony is:

Question: Which category of program music best describes The Moldau?

Question: Which term describes a one-movement work possibly written to introduce a larger

work, but played independently?

Chapter Number: 31

Question: The first movement of a Romantic symphony is usually the most dramatic and features

the use of sonata-allegro form. T/F

Question: Unlike the symphonic poem, the symphony is often absolute music, without a

program. T/F

Question: The Romantic symphony required a larger orchestra than that of the Classical masters.

T/F

Question: The third movement of the nineteenth-century symphony is most likely in:

Question: The Romantic symphony cycle typically has three movements. T/F

Chapter Number: 32

Question: Wagner had a theater built at Bayreuth specifically for the performance of his operas.

T/F

Question: What did Wagner call his operas?

Question: Light German opera featuring spoken dialogue is called:

Question: Many Romantic composers looked to faraway lands or cultures for their opera plots.

T/F


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Chapter Number: 33

Question: Tchaikovsky was a famous_______ composer.

Question: Tchaikovsky introduced the celesta, a bell-like instrument, in the Dance of the Sugar

Plum Fairy. T/F

Question: Puccinis opera Madame Butterfly is considered exotic due to its setting and plot. T/F

Question: The opera Madame Butterfly is set in:

Question: In the second act of Tchaikovsy's ballet The Nutcracker:

Question: Nadezhda von Meck's relationship with Tchaikovsky was that of:

Question: Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker are three famous ballets by

Tchaikovsky. T/F

Exam #5

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CD 3

Schubert Erlking art

song 1-8

Robert Schumann A Poets Love- In the lovely month of May art

song 9-10

Chopin Mazurka in B-flat minor, op. 24, no. 4 piano piece

11-16

Berlioz Symphonie fantastique program

symphony

movement 4, March to the

Scaffold 17-22

Smetana Ma Vlast (My Country) - The Moldau symphonicpoem 23-30

Grieg Peer Gynt,Suite 1, op. 46 incidental music

Morning

Mood 31-33

In the Hall of the Mountain

King 34-36


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Brahms Symphony No. 3 in F major,op. 90 symphony

movement

3 37-39

Verdi Rigoletto, Act 3

opera

Aria: La donna e

mobile 40-41

Quartet: Un di, se ben

rammentomi 42-45

Wagner Die Walkre, Act 3

opera

Ride of the

Valkyries 46-51

Verdi Requiem requiem

Diesirae 52-53

Requiem

aeternam 54

Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker ballet

Dance of the Sugar Plum

Fairy 55-57

Trepak 58-60

Puccini Madame Butterfly opera

Aria: Un beldi 61-62

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