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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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Bloom's: Understand
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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Bloom's: Remember
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
