A. music drama
96. Today’s movie scores may be regarded as examples of ______.
A. pure music
97. In 1830 Berlioz was awarded ______.
A. a graduate fellowship
98. The writer whose works had the greatest impact on the young Berlioz was ______.
A. Victor Hugo
99. The Fantastic Symphony reflects Berlioz’s ______.
A. intense nationalism
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100. The fourth movement of Berlioz’s Fantastic Symphony depicts a ______.
D. scene in the country
101. The liturgical melody quoted in the last movement of Berlioz’s Fantastic Symphony is the ______.
A. Ave Maria
102. Parisians were startled by Berlioz’s Fantastic Symphony because of its ______.
A. sensationally autobiographical program
103. Which of the following statements is not true?
A. Berlioz was an extraordinarily imaginative and innovative orchestrator.
104. In order to support his family, Schumann turned to ______.
A. medicine
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B. musical journalism
C. arranging concerts
D. teaching
105. Outside France, Berlioz enjoyed a great career as a(n) ______.
D. impresario
106. Berlioz was extraordinarily imaginative in treating the orchestra, creating ____________ never before heard.
D. forms
107. The contrasting episodes of Berlioz’s Fantastic Symphony are unified by the recurrence of a theme known as the ______.
A. subject
108. Which of the following instruments is not part of the orchestra for Symphonie fantastique?
D. Bells
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109. The citizen’s sense of national identity and patriotic feelings were intensified by ______.
A. romanticism, which glorified love for one’s national heritage
110. The folk music of Russia sounds different from that of western Europe because it is often based on ______.
D. hexatonic scales
111. Which of the following statements is not true?
A. During the nineteenth century, Europeans felt strongly that their homelands merited loyalty and self-sacrifice.
112. The strongest impact of musical nationalism was felt in ______.
A. Russia
113. Who laid the groundwork for a nationlist style in Russian music?
A. Mily Balakirev
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C. Mikhail Glinka
D. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
114. The opera that laid the groundwork for a Russian national style, A Life for the Tsar, was composed by ______.
A. Modest Mussorgsky
115. The founder of Czech national music was ______.
A. César Cui
116. Smetana grew up when Bohemia was under ____________ domination.
A. German
117. Even though Smetana was deaf at the time, he composed a musical work depicting Bohemia’s main river as it flows through
the countryside. The name of the river, and the musical composition, is the ______.
D. Thames
118. The German master _____________ recommended Dvorák’s music to his own publisher, resulting in a rapid spread of
Dvorák’s fame.
A. Joseph Haydn
119. Antonin Dvorák’s music was first promoted by ______.
A. Hector Berlioz
120. Dvorák “found a secure basis for a new national [American] musical school” in ______.
A. the music of New York
121. In 1892, Dvorák went to ___________, where he spent almost three years as director of the National
Conservatory of Music.
A. London
122. Antonin Dvorák’s Symphony No. 9 ______.
A. is his most famous work
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Learning Objective: Know characteristics of romantic music
Topic: Antonín Dvorák
Topic: symphony
Feedback: Dvorák wrote his New World Symphony (Symphony No. 9), during his first year in the United States. One of the best-
known of all symphonies, it glorifies the American and the Czech folk spirit.
123. In the first movement of the New World Symphony, Dvorák ______.
D. began the symphony with an allegro first theme
124. The popular character of the New World Symphony can be traced to the composer’s use of ___________ often found in folk
music.
A. syncopations
125. Which of the following statements is not true?
A. Tchaikovsky’s progress in music was so rapid that after graduating from the St. Petersburg Conservatory he became professor
of harmony at the new Moscow Conservatory.
126. Mussorgsky’s piano composition Pictures at an Exhibition is best known today in its brilliant orchestral arrangement by
______.
A. Edvard Grieg
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Topic: Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
Feedback: Today, Pictures at an Exhibition is best-known in its brilliant orchestral arrangement by the French composer Maurice
Ravel.
127. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky ______.
A. was a child prodigy, learning music at an early age
128. Nadezhda von Meck was ______.
A. one of Tchaikovsky’s lovers
129. Tchaikovsky participated as a conductor in a concert inaugurating ______.
D. the Leningrad Concert Hall
130. Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony ______.
A. is based on Romeo and Juliet
131. Which of the following statements is not true?
A. Bed ich Smetana was active in Prague as a composer, pianist, conductor, teacher, and tireless propagandist for Czech musical
nationalism.
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C. The Moldau is one of the six symphonic poems in Smetana’s cycle Má Vlast (My Country), a romantic representation of nature
and a display of Czech nationalism.
D. A peasant wedding is suggested in Smetana’s The Moldau by a rustic polka.
132. Which of the following was not a member of the Russian Five?
A. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
133. At its premiere in 1870, Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Overture was ______.
A. a tremendous success
1870.
134. Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet is ______.
A. a ballet based on Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet
135. The course of Brahms’s artistic and personal life was shaped by the influence of the composer(s) _______.
A. Antonin Dvorák
136. In Vienna, Johannes Brahms ______.
A. conducted a Viennese musical society
137. Music critics of the day pitted Brahms’s fondness for traditional forms against ______.
D. All answers are correct.
138. Which of the following was not composed by Tchaikovsky?
D. Symphony No. 6 (Pathétique)
139. Brahms wrote masterpieces in many musical forms, but never any ______.
A. art songs
140. Brahms’s works, though very personal in style, are rooted in the music of ______.
A. Joseph Haydn
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Learning Objective: Recognize and analyze characteristics of music in works by the romantic composer Brahms
Topic: Johannes Brahms
Feedback: Brahms studied and was inspired by the great masters of European music, including Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.
He conducted a Viennese musical society and introduced many forgotten works of Bach, Handel, and Mozart.
141. Brahms’s musical trademarks included ______.
A. bombastic flamboyance
142. Which of the following statements is not true?
D. As conductor of a Viennese musical society, Brahms introduced many forgotten works of Bach, Handel, and Mozart.
143. Georges Bizet composed _________, one of the most popular and frequently performed operas in the world.
D. Tosca
144. Which of the following statements is true about the opera, Carmen?
D. Bizet originally intended for there to be some spoken dialogue, but productions often replace the dialogue with recitative.