Quiz 4

Question 1

Who is the “father” of Italian Grand Opera?

Answer 1

Giuseppe Verdi

Question 2

leading motive signature theme for each character in the story; move we associate with the character

Answer 2

Leitmotiv

Question 3

Opera related to real things in life

Answer 3

Verismo (realism)

Question 4

What genre is related with verismo?

Answer 4

Lyric Opera

Question 5

What are examples of verismo?

Answer 5

Carmen, Madama Butterfly

Question 6

Who used past forms instead of experimentation?

Answer 6

Johannes Brahms

Question 7

How did Mahler make a living?

Answer 7

Conductor

Question 8

What is meant by a nationalist composer?

Answer 8

Wrote music in their own language, rejected dominance in Italian and German instrumental music, independence

Question 9

How many symphonies did Brahms write?

Answer 9

4

Question 10

instrumental music composed purely as music, and not intended to represent or illustrate something else.

Answer 10

Absolute Music

Question 11

a song written to be sung in recital, typically with piano accompaniment and often set to a poem

Answer 11

Art song

Question 12

How did Mahler change art songs?

Answer 12

Used an orchestra instead of piano accompaniment

Question 13

What are the 3 national schools of opera?

Answer 13

France, Germany, Italy

Question 14

Who were the central figures in German Opera?

Answer 14

Carl Maria von Weber, Richard Wagner

Question 15

Who is the character in the Nibelung?

Answer 15

Alberich

Question 16

What are the 4 parts of the Nibelung?

Answer 16

Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung

Question 17

Song structure in which the same music is repeated with every stanza (strophe) of the poem, hymns,carols and as well as folk music & popular songs

Answer 17

Strophic

Question 18

proceeds from beginning to end without repetitions of whole sections; music follows storyline, vocal form in which there is new music for each stanza.

Answer 18

Through Composed

Question 19

What is the longest opera during the Romantic Period?

Answer 19

Der Ring des Nibelungen

Question 20

Who wrote Symphony No. 4 in e minor, op. 98 4th movement

Answer 20

Johannes Brahms

Question 21

What is the form of Symphony No. 4 in e minor, op. 98

Answer 21

Variations form

Question 22

Who composed Transcendental Études No. 10 in F minor

Answer 22

Franz Liszt

Question 23

Who composed Otello?

Answer 23

Giuseppe Verdi

Question 24

Who composed Symphony No. 2 in C minor 4th movement

Answer 24

Gustav Mahler

Question 25

Who composed Un bel di from Madama Butterfly?

Answer 25

Giacomo Puccini