Chapter 10 Flashcards
Central to the Romantic spirit are
d. The feelings of the individual.
The classicist preferred
c. Intellectuality and perfection of form.
A renewed interest in nature led to
b. Landscapes becoming a favorite theme.
The Romantic period largely occupies the
c. 19th Century.
In the musical arts, the Romantic spirit of musical individualism led to
b. Nationalism.
The focus on the individual, and individual expression led to
c. Biographies.
The French Academy
a. Opposed Romanticism.
Jean Jacques Rousseau expressed his philosophies in
d. The Social Contract.
Which of the following are true of the Classical spirit?
a. Intellectualism. e. Logical construction.
e. Logical construction.
The desire to project strong emotions in the arts led to
b. Violent and shocking subjects.
Which of the following are true of the Romantic spirit?
a. Soaring emotions.
b. Subjectivity.
d. Irrationality.
Music that tells a story is called
c. Program music.
A musician of the Romantic period who we, today, would regard as one of the masters, but during his lifetime never achieved worldly success, was
d. Schubert.
The Romantic tendency to combine different arts, such as painting and poetry, is exemplified by
d. Program music.
Romanticism was a revolt against
d. Convention and authority.
Jean Jacques Rousseau believed people were
b. Inherently good.
During the Romantic period, the primary patronage came from
b. The greater public.
Jean Jacques Rousseau’s guiding principle was
c. Be your natural self.
The use and interest in folk songs and folklore show a valuing of the
a. Peasantry.
Jean Jacques Rousseau said that people should be guided by
c. Their natural instincts.
The emphasis of the Romanticism is
b. The search for free expression and personal feelings.
During the Romantic period, the social status of artists
a. Could be a position of high honor if they were successful.
The motivating force in Romanticism was
c. The search for individual freedom.
This artist was best known as a portrait painter.
d. Benoist.
Portrait of a Negress.
d. Benoist.
The mood of this artist’s paintings is always gentle.
b. Corot.
This artist focused on moral issues.
b. Goya.
Art should comment on moral issues.
c. Goya.
His art depicted the rape, mutilation, and desecration of war.
f. Goya.
This artist created abstractions with loose brush strokes.
c. Turner.
The architecture that exemplifies Neo-Baroque is
a. The Paris Opera House.
This artist studied with the neo-classicist, David.
e. Benoist.
This artist was the leader of the Romantic movement in painting.
c. Delacroix.
The architecture that exemplifies the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution.
c. The Crystal Palace.
d. The Eiffel Tower.
This artist depicted the horrors of hell.
e. Delacroix.
His painting depicted humans against the sea.
a. Gericault.
His art anticipated that of the French Impressionists.
e. Turner.
Which previous artists inspired Romantic artists?
a. Rubens.
b. Rembrandt.
His art created the spirit of the object.
e. Turner.
The best word to describe the architecture of the Romantic period is
c. Revivalist.
The Raft of the Medusa.
b. Gericault.
Dante and Virgil in Hell.
a. Delacroix.
This artist favored landscapes and seascapes.
d. Turner.
This artist included 2 poets in his painting.
c. Delacroix.
Speed.
e. Turner.
Spanish Romantic painter.
f. Goya.
Landscapes dissolving in soft light, color, and line.
d. Corot.
His artwork was inspired an account of a sinking ship.
c. Gericault.
The architecture that exemplifies Gothic Revival is
c. The House of Parliament.
Which of the following are true of painting in the Romantic period?
c. Great individuality.
d. Unfettered.
e. Strong emotions.
f. Violence.
This artist was well-read, sensitive, and intelligent; and friends with many important literary and musical figures.
c. Delacroix.
This artwork represented all classes of people.
d. Liberty Leading the People.
This subject of this artist’s painting is an execution.
a. Goya.
This artist was called a barbarian and savage with a paintbrush.
e. Delacroix.
This artist arranged his visual elements like they did in the Baroque period.
b. Delacroix.
Hired survivors of a tragedy to serve as the models in his painting.
f. Gericault.
The Erlkonig is a composition using a poem by
a. Goethe.
The musical compositions in the Romantic period focused on
a. Dynamics.
c. Tone color.
d. Musical tension.
e. A plethora of keys.
The art of music itself deals with
d. Tones in the abstract.
Beethoven’s Middle period began with
b. The composition of his 3rd symphony.
The erlking is
b. The specter of death.
Schubert rivals Beethoven in
b. The Symphony in C Major.
Those who felt music should tell a story were the
c. Realists.
Romantic composers loved the human voice for which reasons?
a. Its personalized quality.
b. That it could sing words; be combined with poetry.
Through his whole life, Schubert was dogged by
d. Poverty.
Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony was dedicated to
a. Napolean.
The art that gave artists the greatest opportunity for individual freedom of expression was
a. Music.
The composition of so many art songs composed in the Romantic period was directly related to
d. The great wealth of 19th century German lyic poetry.
Those who insisted music could exist for its own sake were the
a. Idealists.
In the Romantic period, musicians responded to
a. The public opinion.
b. Their own personal impulses.
The favorite musical media for composers of the Romantic period were
a. The orchestra.
d. The human voice.
e. The piano.
To successfully perform the Erlkonig, the soloist must be able to
a. Portray four different characters.
Beethoven’s most individualized personal expression came through
a. The compositions of his Late period.
Romantic composers loved the orchestra for which reasons?
a. Its size.
c. Its color possibilities.
d. Its brilliance.
Romantic composers created harmonic tension with
a. Dissonances.
d. Chromaticism.
The melodies of the Eroica Symphony are known for
a. Their fragmentable quality.
The piano part in the Erlking could be be described as
a. Ceaseless and driving.
Romantic musicians were emancipated from
a. Aristocratic patronage.
c. The church.
The most Romantic of all the arts was
d. Music.
Beethoven had great performance skills as
a. A pianist. .
c. A violinist.
d. An organist.
The two types of art songs are (you will have to do outside research, because only one is identified in the text)
a. The through-composed.
b. The strophic.
The characteristics of Beethoven’s greatest music would place him best in
d. The Romantic period.
Schubert’s most important contribution to the music of the Romantic period was
c. The art song.
The art that can sustain exaggeration, irrationality, and sentimentality for the longest period of time in an aesthetically satisfying way is
d. Music.
Romantic composers wrote music with the hope that it would appeal to
c. The general musical public.
In the Early part of his career, Beethoven was known as
b. A pianist-composer.
Was privately wealthy.
b. Felix Mendelssohn.
Made substantial income through concertizing.
b. Frederic Chopin.
He is the poet of musical fantasy.
d. Frederic Chopin.
All of the melodies of his compositions in this collection used the notes ASCH (A, E-flat, C, and B).
a. Robert Schumann
His compositions use old forms, such as the fugue and passacaglia.
a. Johannes Brahms
His symphonies feature folk themes and texts from Romantic authors.
d. Gustav Mahler
His compositions for piano tend to be tender in quality.
i. Frederic Chopin.
His opera stories were “verismo”.
c. Giacomo Puccini.
He wrote an opera about young bohemians.
c. Puccini.
His operas include Aida, Otello, and Falstaff.
c. Verdi.
The piano parts of his Lieder are very independent.
f. Robert Schumann
Was a virtuoso pianist, admired by Liszt and Chopin.
a. Clara Schumann
Had an obsession with death.
e. Mahler.
His opera characters were ordinary people.
d. Puccini.
His operas epitomize tragedy and comedy.
b. Verdi.
The most famous popular opera ever is:
c. Carmen.
Was a master of contrapuntal writing.
Brahms
Her musical compositions are identical in style to those of her brother.
h. Fanny Mendelssohn.
His symphonies incorporate vocal elements.
g. Gustav Mahler
They composed in the second half of the 19th century.
e. Giacomo Puccini.
g. Giuseppe Verdi.
h. Gustav Mahler
i. Johannes Brahms
Was known chiefly for compositions of symphonic dimension.
Mahler
His piano compositions used small forms.
d. Robert Schumann
Was a conservatory director and musical journalist.
i. Robert Schumann
Wrote an operatic Requiem.
f. Giuseppe Verdi.
Composed almost exclusively for the piano.
c. Chopin.
He composed art songs using the poetry of Heine.
c. Robert Schumann.
His musical compositions (with the exception of the scherzos) are more Classical than Romantic.
i. Felix Mendelssohn.
His four symphonies are classic in form.
e. Johannes Brahms
