Romantic period Flashcards
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Schubert’s primary source of income came from his…
A. position as music director to a noble court
B. touring as a virtuoso performer
C. performing as church organist
D. musical compositions
musical compositions
Rigoletto, the title role in Giuseppe Verdi’s opera, is all of the following except…
A. a hunchback
B. a court jester to the Duke of Mantua
C. the father of Gilda
D. the romantic lover
the romantic lover
The German composers of art songs favored, among others, the lyric poetry of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and ______.
A. Heinrich Heine
B. Victor Hugo
C. William Wordsworth
D. Walt Whitman
Heinrich Heine
Verdi’s great comic masterpiece, written when he was seventy-nine, is….
A. II Trovatore
B. Otelia
C. Falstaff
D. Ai’‘da
Falstaff
Franz Schubert wrote compositions in every musical genre except…
A. string quartets
B. piano concertos
C. symphonies
D. operas
piano concertos
The movement in opera known as verismo is best exemplified by…
A. Claudio Monteverdi
B. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
C. Giacomo Puccini
D. Richard Wagner
Giacomo Puccini
Liszt created the ______, a one-movement orchestral composition based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea.
A. concert overture
B. symphonic poem
C. piano concerto
D. sonata
symphonic poem
A romantic composer who earned his living as a touring virtuoso was…
A. Robert Schumann
B. Franz Liszt
C. Frederic Chopin
D. Hector Berlioz
Franz Liszt
Mendelssohn is known as the man who rekindled an interest in the music of…
A. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
B. Johann Sebastian Bach
C. George Frideric Handel
D. Franz Shubert
Johann Sebastian Bach
Th Erlking, in Schubert’s song of that name, is a romantic personification of…
A. ghosts
B. death
C. nature
D. a galloping horse
death
Instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene, popular during the romantic period, is called…
A. absolute music
B. opera
C. program music
D. symphony
program music
Chopin expressed his love of Poland by composing polonaises and…
A. polkas
B. folk songs
C. waltzes
D. mazurkas
mazurkas
A leading pianist of the nineteenth century, Clara Schumann…
A. never composed any music
B. did some composing, but considered herself primarily a performer
C. composed many works throughout her long life
D. performed only the music of her husband Robert
did some composing, but considered herself primarily a performer
A short musical idea associated with a person, object, or thought, used by Richard Wagner in his Operas, is called…
A. leitmotif
B. lied
C. unending melody
D. Speech-song
leitmotif
Romanticism, as a stylistic period in western art music, encompassed the years…
A. 1450-1600
B. 1600-1750
C. 1750-1820
D. 1820-1900
1820-1900
An art song is a musical composition for…
A. solo voice and piano
B. solo voice and orchestra
C. multiple voices
D. all of the above
solo voice and piano
Richard Wagner’s last opera was…
A. Gotterdiimmerung (I’he Twilight of the Gods)
B. Tannhiiuser
C. Rienzi
D. Parsifal
Parsifal
Clara Wieck was…
A. the daughter of Schumann’s piano teacher
B. a virtuoso pianist
C. Schumann’s wife
D. all of the above
all of the above
The leading nationalist composer in the United States around the middle of the nineteenth century was…
A. Charles Ives
B. Harry T. Burleigh
C. Louis Moreau Gottschalk
D. Jean Sibelius
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Verdi mainly composed his operas…
A. for the Italian musical elite
B. to glorify the singers
C. to promote Italian unification
D. to entertain a mass public
to entertain a mass public
Franz Schubert wrote a number of symphonies and chamber works that are comparable in power and emotional intensity to those of his idol…
A. Beethoven
B. Berlioz
C. Mozart
D. Haydn
Beethoven
The composer who developed the symphonic poem was…
A. Franz Liszt
B. Ludwig van Beethoven
C. Franz Schubert
D. Richard Strauss
Franz Liszt
