Chapter 11 Flashcards
Realism Painters
Courbet, Daumier, Eakins, Thompson, Homer
Realism Musicians
Berlioz, Wagner, Liszt, Strauss
Romanticism focused attention on
c. Human feelings and sentiment.
Max Schmitt in a Single Scull
a. Represents painting of an almost photographic realism
The weariness of war was chronicled by
c. Thompson
The composer who used the leitmotif in his operas.
c. Wagner.
The techniques and arrangement of the elements in The Gulf Stream communicate
c. The magnitude of the ocean.
The composer who created the synthesized medium of artistic expression.
d. Wagner.
Realism was within which period?
c. Romantic.
An ordinary burial was the subject of an artwork by
a. Courbet
The realism of Thompson’s The Remnants of an Army is
d. Physical and psychological.
A short musical fragment with a specific nonmusical association (e.g., a sword) is
b. A Lietmotif.
The composer who made harmonies richer and more dissonant was
a. Richard Strauss.
Burial at Ornans was about the death of
b. An ordinary, insignificant person
19th Century Realism and Nationalism focused on
b. Feelings about specific problems and events.
The composer who was a phenomenal pianist.
a. Liszt.
The poverty of the working class was depicted by
b. Daumier.
Till Eulenspiegel.
a. A composition about a famous prankster.
Eakings The Agnew Clinic is similar to a painting by
a. Rembrandt.
The composer who wrote operas, but disliked the term was
d. Richard Wagner.
Music with an accompanying literary description is
c. Program music.
A musical melody or fragment with an extra-musical association that keeps coming back, but may be changed each time it re-occurs.
b. Idee fixe.
The Third Class Carriage
c. Shows the inequity between the lower classes and the upper classes.
Most of Daumier’s art depicts
d. Lower-class, hard-working people.
Musicians of 19th Century Realism and Nationalism had a desire to
d. Depict features of specific ethnic groups.
Music with an associative title is
a. Descriptive music.
The focus of Eakin’s The Agnew Clinic is
b. The drama of instruction.
The composer who used the idee fixe.
d. Berlioz.
The Gulf Stream unifies two favorite subjects of the painter:
b. Humans against the sea. d. Black people.
The sea was a favorite subject of
a. Homer.
One of the first artists to use the term “Realism” was
b. Courbet
A musical melody or fragment that had a specific non-musical association is a
c. Leitmotif.
Realism concerned itself with
d. Real problems and concerns of real people.
A composer who wrote music depicting a famous prankster.
c. Strauss
The aim of Realism was
c. To arouse an emotional response about often mundane objects or events.
The group that considered itself the true representatives of Russian Nationalistic music was
b. The Russian Five.
Smetana’s The Moldau is an example of
d. Program Music.
The opera in which the Russian people are the central heroic characters is
c. Boris Gudonov.
Nationalism in the arts is
d. The application of individualism on a national scale.
Nationalism is
d. An attitude.
The most “Russian” of all of the Russian nationalistic music is
a. Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov.
The most original genius of the Russian Five was
a. Mussorgsky.
The composer who promoted Czech nationalism was
a. Smetana.
Before the motivating force of Nationalism, folklore had been repressed because
d. It was connected to the common people.
A legitimate subject for nationalistic art was
a. Anything that would inspire pride and patriotism.
The country whose nationalistic pride caused a major war was
a. Germany.
The most popular medium for descriptive music was
b. The orchestra.
The nationalistic art that has the broadest appeal outside the country of origin is
Music
Countries with the greatest degree of nationalism in art were often
c. The smaller countries.
The composer who wrote Boris Gudonov was
Mussorgsky
Nationalistic artists used materials
c. Indigenous to a particular country.
The leader who birthed German Nationalism was
Bismark
In the middle of the 19th century, music in the countries of eastern Europe was intensely Nationalistic because of
b. The imposition of Germanic culture.
Polish nationalistic music is identifiable
d. By the use of the polonaise and mazurka.
The Russian composer who was considered too German was
Tchaikovsky
The largest nationalistic groups that felt politically or culturally dominated were
d. The Slavic people.
The musical counterpart of visual Realism was
d. Program (or Descriptive) music.
Smetana was, in many respects, a disciple of
d. German composers.
The composer who wrote The Moldau was
a. Smetena.
The first composer who wrote Russian Nationalistic music was
Glinka
By the beginning of the 19th century, the country that provided practically all of the performing musicians, music teachers, and music was
b. Germany.
Countries with the greatest degree of nationalism in art were often
b. Those dominated by others.
