MUSIC QUIZ #5

Question 1

What were some romantic choral works that were intended for the concert hall rather than church?

Answer 1

Mass, Requiem Mass, oratorio

Question 2

When was Johannes Brahms born and where? (One of the 3 B’s of classical music)

Answer 2

-1833-1897
-born in Hamburg (Germany)
-moved to Vienna and stayed there

Question 3

“A German Requiem”
-Who’s most famous work and when was it made?
-words are from what?

Answer 3

-Brahms most famous choral work
-1865-1868
-words are from the old and new testaments of the Bible, in German

Question 4

The ballet began when and where?
It’s central to what?

Answer 4

-began in Renaissance era with the rise of it in the 18th century
-began in France so international language=French
-central to fancy festivals and entertainment at courts

Question 5

Compare and contrast opera and ballet

Answer 5

Opera–> practice alone
Ballet–> practice in a class

Opera–> text in libretto
Ballet–> story is scenario/libretto principal

Opera–>lead role
Ballet–>principal

Opera–>secondary role
Ballet–> soloist

Opera–>chorus
Ballet–>corps de ballet (usually all women) (like chorus in an opera)

Opera: aria (plot stops)
Ballet: variation (plot stops)

Opera: duet (plot stops)
Ballet: pas de deux (plot stops)

Question 6

When was Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky born and where? He was the first major composer to write works for what?

Answer 6

-1840-1893
-Russian composer
-first major composer of the 19th century to write important works for ballet

Question 7

Who was Countess Nadezhda von Meck, and who did she help? How?

Answer 7

-wealthy admirer, supported Tchaikovsky for 14 years and exchanged many letters with him
-agreed to never meet in person
-her support essentially made it possible for Tchaikovsky to become famous

Question 8

When and where was Marius Petipa from? And where did he settle?

Answer 8

-1818-1910
-leading figure in Russian ballet
-settled in St. Petersburg
-created dances for more than 100 works
-invented structure of classic pas de deux
-collaborated with Tchaikovsky

Question 9

When was The Nutcracker made, and by who? Who choreographed it, and how many dances are there?

Answer 9

-1892
-Tchaikovsky’s work
-choreographed by Petipa
-2 dances (dance of the sugar plum fairy, and trepak)

Question 10

What’s impressionism

Answer 10

-a movement among certain FRENCH PAINTERS beginning in the 1860’s
-capture freshness of first impressions and changing appearances of subjects in different lighting

Question 11

Who were important impressionists?

Answer 11

-Claude Monet
-Edgar Degas
-Augusre Renoir

Question 12

What is symbolism?

Answer 12

-parallel development in POETRY that influenced French composers
-suggestion based through symbol

Question 13

Who were important symbolists?

Answer 13

Stephane Mallarme, and Paul Verlaine

Question 14

When was Prelude to “The Afternoon of a Faun made, and by who?

Answer 14

-1894
-Claude Debussy
-best known orchestral work

Question 15

In the late 1800’s when there were some composers that broke traditions what did their music feature?

Answer 15

-Subtle harmonic relationships
-Chromatic, whole-tone, and non–Western scales
-New tone combinations
-Dissonance as a goal in itself, no need to “resolve”
-Subtle orchestral colors

Question 16

When and where was Claude Debussy born?

Answer 16

-1862-1918
-transitional figure between Romantic period and the twentieth century
-born in France

Question 17

What were the 3 national music styles?

Answer 17

-German
-Italian
-Czech

Question 18

When and where was Antonin Dvorak born?

Answer 18

-1841-1904
-born in Bohemia (czech)

Question 19

When and where was Harry T. Burleigh born?

Answer 19

-1866-1949
-born in Pennsylvania

Question 20

What are spirituals?

Answer 20

-songs created by enslaved Africans in the U.S, created a sense of community
-deeply heartfelt, and emotional
-religious in nature, traditional folklike sacred songs
-have double meanings, coded messages

Question 21

Who were Fidk Jubilee Singers?

Answer 21

-an ensemble of African American students studying at and raising funds for fisk university
-Performed sacred european choral masterworks and arrangements of spirituals
-Fisk Quartet made recordings in the 1920’s and 30s

Question 22

When and where was Samuel Coleridge-Taylor born?

Answer 22

-1875-1912
-Born in London (British)

Question 23

When was Deep River composed? By who? What does it reference?

Answer 23

-1904
-Samuel Coleridge Taylor
references a safe house, cross over into campground (escaping)
-most famous of piano arrangements of spirituals
-free and through-composed form

Question 24

What was Brahms output?

Answer 24

-4 symphonies, 4 concertos, and contributions to chamber, piano, and choral music; Lieder

Question 25

Who did Brahms praise, and what was he dedicated to?

Answer 25

-praised Beethoven -dedicated for absolute music

Question 26

What is "A German Requiem" and who's death was it inspired by?

Answer 26

-not a mass or liturgical -inspired by death of Robert Schumann and Brahms mother

Question 27

How many movements are in "A German Requiem?"

Answer 27

-7 movements

Question 28

Tchaikovsky graduated from law school at what age? He worked several years as a what? When did he enroll in St. Petersburg Conservatory? What did he do after graduation; where at?

Answer 28

-graduated from law school at 19, worked several years as a civil servant -enrolled in the brand-new St. Petersburg Conservatory (1862) -After graduation--> taught at Moscow Conservatory for over a decade

Question 29

Did Tchaikovsky live a happy life? Why or why not?

Answer 29

-frustrated--> teaching left him little time to compose, but couldn't leave -Successful career but personal life was in disarray (homosexual)

Question 30

What was Tchaikovsky's output?

Answer 30

- 8 operas, 3 ballets--> Swan Lake (1876), The Sleeping Beauty (1889), and The Nutcracker (1892)

Question 31

Petipa created dances for how many works? What did he invent the structure of?

Answer 31

-created dances for more than 100 works -invented structure of classic pas de deux

Question 32

Who did Petipa collaborate with?

Answer 32

-Tchaikovsky

Question 33

Who was Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun inspired by? Who was it choregraphed by?

Answer 33

-inspired by Stephane Mallarme's work -choreographed by Russian dancer Vaslav Nijinsky--> Debussy not happy that poem was turned into ballet, but it made the poem better known

Question 34

Debussy was what kind of composer?

Answer 34

-impressionist composer

Question 35

When did Debussy enter Paris Conservatory? What shocked the professors?

Answer 35

-entered Paris Conservatory at 11--> bizarre harmonies that shocked professors

Question 36

What was Debussy's accomplishment? What made him famous?

Answer 36

-Won Prix de Rome at age 22 -Symbolist opera Pelleas and Melisande (1902) made him famous

Question 37

What does Debussy's music illustrate?

Answer 37

-music illustrates dreamlike mood of poem rather than actual events

Question 38

What was Debussy's output?

Answer 38

- orchestral, dramatic, chamber, choral, piano music; art songs

Question 39

Dvorak played what early in his life, and where?

Answer 39

-played viola in the Czech National Theater early in life

Question 40

Dvorak became what of the National Conservatory of Music in New York? When?

Answer 40

Director in 1891

Question 41

Dvorak originally believed what? What changed his mind?

Answer 41

-originally believed that the national music of America should be German in style→ changed his mind after hearing African American composition students

Question 42

Harry T. Burleigh was what kind of famous singer? Where did he study?

Answer 42

-famous baritone singer who studied at the National Conservatory of Music in New York

Question 43

Harry T. Burleigh was the first black composer to develop what?

Answer 43

-characteristically “American”- sounding instrumental music

Question 44

Harry T. Burleigh sang what? Who did he introduce to black American music?

Answer 44

-sang old spirituals -introduced Dvorak to black American music

Question 45

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor studied what and where?

Answer 45

-studied violin and composition at the Royal Conservatory

Question 46

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor composed what? Who were they connected to?

Answer 46

-In 1905 he composed piano elaborations on spirituals connected to the fisk ensemble