FINAL- TEST 2 Flashcards
In Schubert’s Elfking, the obsessive triplet rhythm of the piano accompaniment represents:
the galloping of the horse.
Which of the following composers was NOT a master of the Viennese school?
Chopin
Beethoven suffered from perhaps the most traumatic of all maladies for a musician. What was it?
deafness
Schubert was born in:
Vienna.
In Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, what is the idée fixe?
the basic theme of the symphony, heard in every movement
How did Classical artists differ from their Romantic counterparts?
Classical artists emphasized clarity and beauty of form.
Wagner’s cycle of four music dramas is called:
The Ring of the Nibelung.
How many movements make up a typical Haydn symphony?
four
Which of the following was NOT characteristic of Impressionist music?
strong accents on the first beat of each measure
Which of the following Russian composers was famous for his ballets?
Tchaikovsky
How many movements are in a Classical concerto?
three
Impressionism in music is best exemplified by the works of:
Claude Debussy.
Brahms is often described as a(n) ________ because of his use of the forms established by the Classical masters.
traditionalist
The leading composer of Italian opera in the late-Romantic era was:
Puccini
A rondo is most typically found in the ________ movement of a Classical multimovement cycle.
last
Chopin spent his early years in:
Poland.
Which of the following compositions is LEAST likely to be an example of program music?
String Quartet in B-flat Major
Which group of instruments was the nucleus of the Classical orchestra?
strings
Which of the following was NOT a leading composer of Italian opera?
Bizet
Which composer both maintained and disrupted the balance of the Classical style?
Beethoven
The nickname “father of the symphony” was earned by:
Haydn.
What is the form of the second movement of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5?
theme and variations
A musical setting of the Mass for the Dead is called:
a Requiem.
Impressionism: Sun Rising, the painting that sparked the Impressionist art movement, was created by:
Claude Monet
The “Ode to Joy” is the finale of Beethoven’s:
Symphony No. 9.
A typical feature of a concerto is a free solo passage without orchestral accompaniment called the:
cadenza.
How many symphonies did Beethoven write?
9
Wagner’s total artwork, in which all the arts—music, poetry, drama, visual spectacle—are fused together, is called:
the Gesamtkunstwerk.
The late-Romantic Italian opera tradition was characterized by a movement toward realism, called:
verismo.
The Dies irae is:
a chant from the Mass for the Dead.
Which of the following composed The Barber of Seville and William Tell?
Rossini
Which of the following best describes the form of the first movement of Mozart’s Eine kleine Nachtmusik?
sonata-allegro
Chopin spent most of his productive life in:
Paris.
Which nineteenth-century composer’s entire output centered around the piano?
Chopin
Which composer rebelled against the patronage system and struggled to achieve financial independence?
Mozart
Music composed without literary or pictorial meanings is called:
absolute music.
Which of the following does NOT characterize Romantic music?
reserved emotions
A group of Lieder unified by a narrative thread or by a descriptive or expressive theme is called a(n):
song cycle.
Of which genre is Fauré is considered to be a master?
song
Which of the following was a noted woman composer of the Romantic era?
Clara Schumann
The Classical period in music ranged from approximately:
1750 to 1825.
Oratorios primarily drew their stories from:
the Bible.
How many movements are in Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique?
five
Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique is an example of a:
program symphony.
What trend inspired composers to write music evoking scenes or sounds of far-off lands?
exoticism
The librettist for Wagner’s music dramas was:
Wagner himself.
How did comic opera differ from opera seria?
It was sung in the vernacular
It presented down-to-earth plots.
It featured ensemble as well as solo singing.
The Dies irae text from the Requiem Mass describes:
Judgment Day.
Mozart died while writing his:
Requiem
The German term for the art song is:
Lied.
Which of the following was a widely beloved nationalist opera composer?
Verdi
The first movement of a symphony is usually in ________ form.
sonata-allegro
Which of the following inspired Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique?
the actress Harriet Smithson
In the Classical multimovement cycle, the third movement is usually in ________ form.
minuet and trio
The most important keyboard instrument of the Romantic period was the:
piano.
Which movement of a symphony is traditionally the slowest?
the second movement
