Unit 4 test Flashcards
What is Mendelssohn’s best-known multi-volume work for solo piano?
Songs Without Words
Frederic Chopin was most active in which two decades:
1830s and 1840s
The gondola song has historical ties to which European city?
Venice
A short expressive piece for solo piano based on a single musical idea that conveys a particular mood is referred to as:
character piece
Which of the following is a Polish folk dance in triple meter:
mazurka
A broad division among Romantic composers can be identified by two divergent approaches to which important aspect of music?
form
In Chopin’s Preludes we identified a number of compositional techniques. Which one of the following is NOT one of those techniques?
The invention of a new form.
Which statement about the Romantic style is NOT accurate?
Formal clarity is a hallmark of the Romantic style.
Some of Mendelssohn’s piano pieces are characterized principally by a four-voice homophonic texture, which is a particular type of piece, referred to as:
choral song
Which composer has been called “the poet of the piano”?
Frederic Chopin
Which composer was one of the co-founders of Neue Zeitschrift für Musik?
Robert Schumann
Which movement of the F.A.E. Sonata was written by Johannes Brahms?
Scherzo
Among Franco Zeffirelli’s many artistic contributions is which of the following?
He was among the first to blend opera with the art of cinema.
Op. 118, No. 6 in E-flat minor is a turbulent piece titled?
Intermezzo
Which composer was the first to create a complete program symphony?
Hector Berlioz
Including the material covered in both Lesson 13 and Discussion Board #5, which two composers have we noted for their use of thematic transformation?
Johannes Brahms and Hector Berlioz
Op. 118 comes late in Johannes Brahms’ life. It is written for which instrument(s)?
solo piano
Which one of the “Scenes from Childhood” clearly represents the gentle “Eusebius” side of the composer’s personality?
Träumerie
Which is one of Robert Schumann’s most popular works for the solo piano?
Scenes from Childhood
Which two composers are especially known for their contributions to the development of the German art song, Leid.
Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann
The sensuality of both worldly and artistic experience was a guiding aesthetic of the Symbolist movement.
True
Which one of these titles is among the most popular tenor arias?
Nessun dorma
What is the title of the neoclassical piece that Stravinsky wrote for the solo viola or solo violin?
Elegie
Igor Stravinsky is one of the greatest and most influential composers of the twentieth century known for which famous piece that is sometimes referred to as “primitivist?”
Rite of Spring
Which is the title of one of Debussy’s most popular preludes for the solo piano?
La Fille aux Chevaux de Lin
Parallel motion is a technique employed by which great composer?
Claude Debussy
Who was one of the greatest and most influential composers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, whose work has been labeled “Impressionist?”
Claude Debussy
Which of the following is not a technique used by Stravinsky in his most famous ballet?
functional harmony
What is a pentatonic scale?
five-note scale
Who is the composer of Syrinx?
Claude Debussy
