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145. The Habañera and the Toreador Song are two famous arias from which opera?

D. La Bohème

146. Verdi studied music in _________, the city where Italy’s most important opera house, La Scala, is located.

A. Rome

147. Verdi’s first great success, an opera with strong political overtones, was _______.

A. Oberto

148. Critics were often scandalized by the subject matter of Verdi’s operas because they ______.

A. symbolized a free and unified Italy

149. Which of the following operas is not by Verdi?

A. La Traviata

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Feedback: La Traviata, Il Trovatore, and Otello are all operas by Verdi. Turandot is by Giacomo Puccini.

150. Giuseppe Verdi mainly composed his operas ______.

A. for the Italian musical elite

151. Which of the following statements is not true?

A. Giuseppe Verdi, the most popular of all opera composers, was born to a poor family in a tiny Italian village.

152. The soul of a Verdi opera is ______.

A. extensive thematic development

153. Verdi’s great comic masterpiece, written when he was seventy-nine, is ______.

A. Il Travatore

154. Verdi’s later operas differ from his earlier ones in that they have ______.

A. less difference between aria and recitative

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Learning Objective: Recognize and analyze characteristics of music in works by the romantic composer Verdi

Topic: Giuseppe Verdi

Topic: Opera

Feedback: Verdi’s style became more varied and unconventional as he grew older. Verdi’s later works have greater musical

continuity, less difference between aria and recitative, and more imaginative orchestration and richer accompaniments.

155. Rigoletto, the title role in Giuseppe Verdi’s opera, is all of the following except ______.

A. a hunchback

156. The famous aria La donna è mobile is taken from Verdi’s opera ______.

D. Il Trovatore

157. Giacomo Puccini’s first successful opera was ______.

A. Madame Butterfly

158. Which of the following operas was not composed by Giacomo Puccini?

A. Madame Butterfly

159. An artistic trend of the 1890s, in which operas dealt with ordinary people and true-to-life situations, was known as ______.

A. opera seria

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B. verismo

C. exoticism

D. Cavalleria rusticana

160. The movement in opera known as verismo is best exemplified by ______.

A. Claudio Monteverdi

161. Some of Puccini’s operas feature exoticism, as in his use of melodic and rhythmic elements derived from Japanese and

Chinese music in his operas ______.

A. Turandot and Manon Lescaut

162. Giacomo Puccini’s opera La Bohème takes place in ______.

A. Seville

163. Giacomo Puccini, in his operas, ______.

A. achieved unity and continuity by using the same material in different acts

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164. In Puccini’s La Bohème, Rodolfo is a young ______.

A. painter

165. Mimi and Rodolfo meet for the first time in La Bohème because she has come to his door to ask for a ______.

D. cup of sugar

166. Who sings the aria Che gelida manina (How cold your little hand is) in La Bohème?

A. Mimi

167. Wagner’s preeminence was such that an opera house of his own design was built in _________________, solely for

performances of his music dramas.

A. Paris, France

168. ______ was a fanatical supporter of Wagner and helped rescue his career in the 1860s.

A. Franz Liszt

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B. Napoleon III

C. Czar Alexander II

D. King Ludwig of Bavaria

169. The composer who had an overwhelming influence on the young Wagner was ______.

A. Johann Sebastian Bach

170. Wagner was a virtuoso on the ______.

A. piano

171. Which of the following statements is not true?

D. Wagner used leitmotifs, or short musical ideas associated with a person, object, or thought, to unify his greatly extended music

dramas.

172. Wagner was appointed conductor of the Dresden opera mainly because of the success of his first opera ______.

A. The Ring of the Nibelung

173. During Wagner’s time in Paris, what did he do?

A. Conducted the famous premiere of his opera, Rienzi

174. Which of the following operas was not composed by Richard Wagner?

A. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

175. The librettos to The Ring of the Nibelung were written by ______.

A. Arrigo Boito

176. Richard Wagner’s last opera was ______.

A. Die Götterdämmerung

177. A short musical idea associated with a person, object, or thought, used by Richard Wagner in his operas, is called ______.

D. speech-song

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Learning Objective: Recognize and analyze characteristics of music in works by the romantic composer Wagner

Topic: Opera

Feedback: Wagner made extensive use of leitmotifs, short musical ideas associated with a person, an object, or a thought in the

drama. Every time the listener hears a certain leitmotif, it is because that person, object, or thought is present in the scene.

178. The orchestration in Wagner’s operas is _______.

A. light and simple

179. Valhalla, in Wagner’s Ring cycle, is ______.

A. a city in New York State

180. Siegmund, in Wagner’s opera Die Walküre, is ______.

A. Sieglinde’s brother, then wife

181. What happens at the end of the first act of Wagner’s opera Die Walküre?

A. Sieglinde recognizes the stranger as her brother and renames him Siegmund.

182. While Wagner’s Ring cycle features fantastical elements such as gods, giants, and magic, the opera is really about ______.

A. the Renaissance

183. Mahler began his professional musical life as a ______.

184. By supervising every aspect of its performances, Mahler brought the ____________ to new heights of excellence.

D. Budapest Philharmonic

185. By the age of twenty-eight, Mahler was director of the ______.

A. Vienna Opera

186. The major portion of Mahler’s creative output consists of ______.

D. chamber music

187. Mahler’s experiences in New York were not happy because _______.

A. he aroused the dislike of many of his players

188. Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer) is a ______.

D. dramatic opera

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Topic: Bedich Smetana 4

Topic: Concerto 5

Topic: Felix Mendelssohn 10

Topic: Frédéric Chopin 5

Topic: Franz Liszt 12

Topic: Franz Schubert 14

Topic: Georges Bizet 3

Topic: Giacomo Puccini 8

Topic: Giuseppe Verdi 11

Topic: Gustav Mahler 6

Topic: Hector Berlioz 13

Topic: Instrument families 5

Topic: Johannes Brahms 9

Topic: Melody 2

Topic: Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky 1

Topic: Nationalism 10

Topic: Opera 29

Topic: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky 10

Topic: Program music 19

Topic: Rhythm 2

Topic: Richard Wagner 15

Topic: Robert Schumann 11

Topic: Romantic music 17

Topic: Song cycle 1

Topic: symphony 4