Exam 3 Music Appreciation

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Some early Classical composers, who aimed at reforming serious opera, did all of the following except

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including many da capo arias because of their intense dramatic quality.

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Just like serious operas, comic operas were written in the local language of their original audiences.

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False

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All of the following are true about Mozart's operas except

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classical restraint and proportion are often abandoned.

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Just before he died, Mozart composed a __________, the Mass performed for funeral or memorial services.

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Requiem

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In The Marriage of Figaro one of the main characters is a nobleman who is outwitted and humiliated by his own servants.

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True

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When Haydn was criticized for writing religious music that was too "happy," he replied that he did not believe the Lord minded cheerful music.

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True

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After Bach and Handel, Protestant music declined because the music was supposed to be a functional part of the service rather than "art for art's sake

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True

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The opera buffa introduced the ensemble __________ to bring an act or an opera to a musically and dramatically exciting close.

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Finale

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Light in mood and concerned with everyday characters and events, __________ operas developed in several countries during the eighteenth century.

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Comic

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One of history's most tragic figures, __________, began his performing career as a child prodigy.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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The introductory orchestra piece of an opera is called the

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Overture

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had a short life that was marked by financial difficulties.

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Mozart

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Since Mozart's operas are characterized by plots that include a wide range of emotions, in his operas, Mozart abandoned the classical restraint characteristic of Viennese Classicism.

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False

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The Romantics were drawn to and fascinated by all of the following except

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the musical forms of the Classical style

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All of the following were characteristic of the nineteenth-century concerto except

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nineteenth-century composers continued to leave their cadenzas to the improvisation of the performer

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Many Romantics replaced God with nature, or saw God in nature

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True

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Nineteenth-century music was so closely married to __________ that consideration of one without the other is inconceivable

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Literature

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__________, a Russian composer who studied law as a young man, became a cosmopolitan composer more influenced by the West than by his native land.

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Peter Tchaikovsky

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__________ was an outstanding pianist and composer, as was her more famous brother.

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Fanny Mendelssohn

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Music can serve as a dynamic link to the past

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all of the above

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__________, who originally studied to become a doctor, later entered the Paris Conservatory and won the Prix de Rome, whereupon he left Paris for a year of study in Italy

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Hector Berlioz

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The following are all characteristics of ballads, except

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they have all been created in the last hundred years

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The music best known as "Wedding March" is from the incidental music for Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream" by

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Felix Mendelssohn

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Authentic performances intend to achieve all of the following expect to

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make music pieces sound more interesting that the composer intended

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During the Romantic period, art was largely supported by the __________ class, who were willing and generally able to pay for what they appreciated

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Middle

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__________ was one of the outstanding characteristics of the Romantic period, for Romantics were fascinated not only with their own psyches, but also with the most personal expressions of others.

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Individualism

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Romantic composers generally preferred long, lyrical melody lines to the motivic melodies associated with the Classical composers

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True

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During the early part of the nineteenth century, history was of great interest; later in the century, the public became more interested in __________ than history, as geology proved how brief the period of recorded history was in comparison with the time humans had lived on earth.

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Science

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The term romantic comes from __________, the word for a Medieval story or poem of heroic nature in one of the Latin-derived languages

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Romance

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It was during the nineteenth century that music first became a lucrative business.

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True

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When the same thematic material recurs in two or more movements of a multimovement composition, the work is

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cyclic

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When Mendelssohn was only twenty years old, he organized and conducted J. S. Bach's __________ in its first performance in a hundred years.

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St. Matthew Passion

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Nineteenth-century society was entirely changed by the __________ Revolution

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industrial

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All of the following composers continued to compose in the Classical symphonic form except

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Liszt

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Romantic music to be played during the performance of plays was called __________ music.

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Incidental

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All of the following were characteristic of Romantic harmony except

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the orchestra decreased in size.

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A one-movement orchestral work conceived as a kind of "poem without words" that was contributed to Franz Liszt and is a major innovation in the filed of Romantic orchestral music is called

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a symphonic poem

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__________, a Russian composer who studied law as a young man, became a cosmopolitan composer more influenced by the West than by his native land.

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Peter Tchaikovsky

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__________, who originally studied to become a doctor, later entered the Paris Conservatory and won the Prix de Rome, whereupon he left Paris for a year of study in Italy

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Hector Berlioz

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Each of the following was a feature of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique except

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the music closely follows the forms of the Classical symphony

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__________ was born in Hamburg, Germany, in the same year that Abraham Lincoln was born in Hardin, Kentucky, but had every advantage of education and experience his wealthy family could offer.

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Felix Mendelssohn

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The Romantics were more interested in __________ than in form, and most of them considered the Classical rules of formal design confining

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expression

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A fundamental goal of the Romantic style was the blending of painting, literature, and music.

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True

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The orchestral compositions built upon literary or other extra-musical ideas used by Romantics were called

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programs

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__________ became an important movement in the later part of the nineteenth century, as European countries sought to establish their political and stylistic identities.

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Nationalism

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Nineteenth-century writers, painters, and musicians were highly __________ in their approach to the arts, vividly expressing their most intimate and personal thoughts and experiences in the effort to assert their individual personalities

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subjective

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When Mendelssohn was only twenty years old, he organized and conducted J. S. Bach's __________ in its first performance in a hundred years.

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St. Matthew Passion

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Schumann's brief career was nonetheless varied, including all of the following achievements except

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he was a brilliant and well-known concert pianist until he had to be placed into an asylum.

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The most important composer of piano music in the Romantic period and style was

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Chopin

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The type of Romantic character pieces called Impromptus are

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introspective pieces of improvisative character

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Robert Schumann wrote several beautiful sets of art songs called

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song cycles

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__________ was an influential and gifted Romantic composer whose life was marred by depression and mental instability.

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Robert Schumann

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In Robert Schumann's songs, the piano part provides each of the following except

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vocal significance

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During the nineteenth century, concert pianists were in great demand.

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True

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Compared to the art songs of Schubert, the songs of Schumann are somewhat less emotional and more conservative.

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False

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Robert Schumann wrote in all of the following genres except

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Opera

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The piano part in Schubert's songs is more important than the piano part in Robert Schumann's songs

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False

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Chopin wrote all of the following stylized Polish dance pieces except

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Polkas

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__________ is better remembered today for his virtuosity as a violinist than as a composer.

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Paganini

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All of the following are important features of Chopin's style except

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short, motivic melodies designed for intense development

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The ideal solo Romantic instrument was the

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Piano

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Short, highly subjective piano compositions are called __________ pieces

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Character

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The type of Romantic character pieces called Ballades are

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narrative songs without words

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The type of Romantic character pieces called Études are

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"studies" or "excercises" that are appropriate for concert performance

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__________, the "poet of the piano," was born in Poland, but lived most of his life in Paris, France

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Frederic Chopin

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Franz Liszt was a superb showman, who sat on the stage so as to reveal his handsome profile to the audience rather than with his back to them, as was customary.

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True

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__________ was a child prodigy who was carefully trained as a pianist by Schumann's piano instructor and who established a highly successful career as a concert pianist and teacher at a prestigious conservatory of music.

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Clara Wieck

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A term for a romantic rhythmic technique that means "robbing" is

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Rubato

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__________ was born in Hungary, was a contemporary of Tchaikovsky, and toured Europe as a virtuoso pianist at age eleven

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Franz Liszt

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Romantic songs in a song cycle are related in all of these ways except through the use of

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chorus and orchestra

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The type of Romantic character pieces called Nocturnes are

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night pieces

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Robert Schumann discovered that the mating of __________ and music in the art song was his ideal mode of expression

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words

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The grand opera combined all of the following except

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spoken dialogue

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Festivals of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen are presented annually at a theater he designed in

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Bayreuth, Germany

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While opera buffa, Singspiel, and opera comique found favor in their respective homelands, Gilbert and Sullivan created a unique operetta for __________ audiences

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English

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In Wagner's ideal music drama

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All of these

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Verdi's style and music reflect all of the following except

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a belief that the text is more important than the music in an opera

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__________, an early nineteenth-century composer, wrote the opera Lucia de Lammermoor, which has a scene famous for bel canto singing

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Gaetano Donizetti

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Opera was seen as the ideal form of Romantic expression for many composers because

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it was the best way to integrate music, theater, and visual arts

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The finest Italian composer of the nineteenth century was

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Giuseppe Verdi

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Although the Romantic era was fascinated with mysticism, it was also essentially a secular period that did not produce a great deal of choral music for either Catholic or Protestant worship

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True

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Wagner's melodic style had each of the following characteristics except

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he included separate pieces, such as arias and ballets, in his operas

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Patter songs features

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all of these

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Wagner called all of his mature music dramas Gesamtkunstwerk [total artwork] because . . .

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he considered them a fusion of all the arts, visual, musical and poetic

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The leader of the Romantic movement to write verismo opera was

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Giacomo Puccini

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Some Italian composers of the late Romantic period portrayed realistic, everyday characters in their operas. This effect was called

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verismo

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In Wagner's dramatic works, the orchestra was of unprecedented significance, weaving melodic fragments and chords called __________ throughout the orchestral texture

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Leitmotifs

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Romantic composers often treated the chorus as an integral part of an instrumental ensemble rather than as a separate entity

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True

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The most important composer of German music theater in the late nineteenth century was

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Richard Wagner

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During the nineteenth century, periods of reform in serious opera encouraged the composition of light operas or

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operettas

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Berlioz wrote two gigantic works for chorus, soloists, and orchestra, a Requiem and a

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Te Deum.