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67 Cards in this Set
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Who composed the music for the 3-Cornered Hat Ballet?
Manuel de Falla Bedrich Smetana Antonin Dvorak Isaac Albeniz |
Manuel de Falla
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What work did Antonin Dvorak compose?
Slavonic Dances My country Iberia The Three-Cornered Hat |
Slavonic Dances
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How many movements is in a Bolero?
1 2 3 4 |
1
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Gesamtkunstwerk's theory was that the most important element of the opera was the:
Drama comedy romantic serious |
Drama
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What isn't a style of French opera?
Bolero Grand opera Opera Comique Lyric Opera |
Bolero
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In 1835, Felix Mendelsson became a conductor of what orchestra?
Gewanhaus La mer Romantic French Brahms |
Gewanhaus
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Neo-classicism preferred absolute music to program music
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True
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Verismo is a style popular in Italy in the 1980s, which tried to bring naturalism into the lyric theatre.
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True
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Schoenberg changed from ultra romanticism to serialism and took two years off to develop the formal structure of serialism.
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True
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Edward Grieg's "In the Han of the Mountain King" is a piece in the play "Peer Gynt"
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True
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Impressionism is a style of composition which characteristically used the whole-tone scale.
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True
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Which scene is not hinted at in Smetana's "The Moldau"?
Two springs coming together to form a mighty river A peasant wedding scene A hunting scene A war |
A war
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Bel canto is Italian for "beautiful singing"
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True
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Richard Wagner's orchestras were always large productions.
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True
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Where was the right of spring initially performed?
Theatre des champs Baxter Theater Centre Clayes Performing Arts Center Carnegie Hall |
Theatre des Champs
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What is concert overture?
A single movement concert piece for orchestra composition that is frequently based upon a literacy program A delay in a concert A double movement concert piece for orchestra composition None of the above |
A single movement concert piece for orchestra composition that is frequently based upon a literacy program
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Why was Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 in E minor a great representation of America?
It was influenced by Native American folk music It was influenced by African folk music It was influenced by both African and Native American folk music It was influenced by techno music |
It was influenced by both African and Native American folk music
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What piece is Edvard Grieg famous for?
In the Hall of the Mountain King In the Hall of the Mountain Knights In the Hall of the Ocean King In the Hall of the Lion King |
In the Hall of the Mountain King
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Who composed Hebrides Overture?
Felix Mendelssohn Johannes Brahms Fanny Hensel Gacom Puccini |
Felix Mendelssohn
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Requiems are known as the Mass of the Dead.
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True
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What does Symphony no. 1 in D major, third movement contain?
Double Bass and round Triple bass and square Straight and uniform none of the above |
Double bass and round
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What is Guiseppe Verdi primarily known for?
Opera Cantatas Concertos All of the Above |
Opera
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Which of the following is true about Richard Wagner?
He hated the French Was an anti sematic He hated his home country in Germany He hated himself |
He was an anti sematic
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Who composed Prelude the Afternoon of a Faun Sleeping Beauty?
Debussy Berg Schoenberg Wagner |
Debussy
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Berg created the twelve tone technique
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Carl Orff was _______
German composer who composed Carmina Burana Italian composer French composer None of the above |
German composer who composed Carmina Burana
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Where did expressionism originate?
France Germany England America |
Germany
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What is a short constantly occurring musical phrase associated with a particular person, place, or idea?
Leitmotif Titornello Basso Continuo Melody |
Leitmotif
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When did Igor Stravirsky become an American citizen?
1950 1948 1945 1955 |
1945
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Who was Fanny Hansel published under?
Felix her younger brother Fanny Menderssohn Fanny Hensel Bach |
Felix her younger brother
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What defines Italian Opera?
The harmonies Opera in Italy and Italian language The violin and the harp The Italian language and costumes |
opera in Italy and Italian language
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What is Peter Tchaikovskys most popular work?
The sun and the moon The song on earth Reflection Classical |
Classical
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Who is the last recognized German symphonist?
Peter Tchaikovsky Felix Mednelssohn Gustav Mahler Manuee de Falla |
Gustav Mahler
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Who wrote Aida?
Bedrch Smetana Felix Mendelssohn Giuseppe Verdi Mozart |
Giuseppe Verdi
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Who composed Madama Butterfly?
Puccini Mozart Brahms Verdi |
Puccini
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Who is known as the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi?
Brahms Puccini Tchaikovksy Verdi |
Puccini
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Serialism is a musical pattern that repeats over and over for a significant amount of time.
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True
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What was Bedrich Smatana's first opera?
The Brandenburgers of Bohemia La Vestale Der Vampyr La Juive |
The Brandenburgers of Bohemia
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A nanny by the name of Lidi Dosa was Bela Bartok's inspiration for folk music.
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True
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What mathematical structure did Debussy use?
Homomorphisms Fibonacci Dewey Metric |
Fibonacci
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Festspielhaus is an opera house based in what country?
Germany United States Russia United Kingdom |
Germany
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Who wrote Rigoletto and what type of composition is it?
Verdi; opera Debussy; sonata Bartok; folk melody Mozart; Rondo |
Verdi; opera
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Symphony no. 9 is composed by Dvorak in cyclic form
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True
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Which work did Johannes Brahms write?
Ein Deutsches Rigoletto Four Seasons Polero |
Ein Deutsches
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What symphony did Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky dedicate to Nadezhda von Meck?
Symphony no. 9 in E minor Symphony no. 1 in D major Symphony no. 4 in F minor Romantic symphony |
Symphony no. 4 in F minor
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Choral music is specifically written for who?
Singers Instruments Piano players Dancers |
Singers
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Who wrote Symphony no. 4 in E minor?
Brahms Liszt Beethoven Mozart |
Brahms
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What was Guiseppe Verdi known for?
Sculptures Opera Symphonies Piano |
Opera
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How many acts are in the opera La Boheme?
1 3 4 0 |
4
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Richard Wagner composed Ring des Nibelungen.
True False |
True
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What were Diaghilev's ballets known as?
Folk melodies German opera Symphonies Ballet Russes |
Ballet Russes
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Who composed the Romeo and Juliet Overture?
Tchaikovsky Schubert Verdi Puccini |
Tchaikovsky
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Where did Johannes Brahms begin his piano playing as a youth?
Churches Taverns Schools Concerts |
Taverns
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What is the nickname for Symphony no. 9 in E minor for Dvorak?
Sky Bright From the New World Symphony Clouds Oh Earth, Goodbye |
From the New World Symphony
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Which of opera relates to the musical Red?
Turandot by Puccini Idomeneo by Mozart La Boheme by Puccini Madame Butterfly by Puccini |
La Boheme by Puccini
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Which is NOT Richard Wagner's major works?
Rienzi, 1842 Requiem Libera me, 1874 Tannhauser, 1845 Der fliegende Hollander, 1843 |
Requiem Libera me, 1874
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Who is a famous German opera composer?
George Frideric Handel Francesco Cavalli Claudio Monteverdi Jacopo Peri |
George Frideric Handel
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Who developed the concept of atonal music?
Richard Wagner Peter Illych Tchaikovsky Arnold Schoenberg Johannes Brahms |
Arnold Schoenberg
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Who wrote the Right of Spring?
Carl Orff Igor Stravinsky Clara Schumann Robert Schumann |
Igor Stravinksy
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Under what 'ism' was Ravel's music characterized?
Impressionism Expressionism Neoclassicism none of the above |
Impressionism
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Giuseppe Verdi created a retirement home for retired opera singers and musicians in Milan. What was it called?
Casa De Sol Casa di Riposo per Musicisti Casa Musica Casa de Campo |
Casa di Riposo per Musicisti
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Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, first movement, what is unusual about it?
It immediately starts off with the violin rather than following an orchestral preview of the first movement's major themes, as was typical in Classical era concertos It had dance performers It ends abruptly It did not have a conductor |
It immediately starts off with the violin rather than following an orchestral preview of the first movement's major themes, as was typical in Classical era concertos
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The Romantic Symphony usually expanded classical forms in some way, influenced by ______
Beethoven Luda Wagner Berlioz |
Beethoven
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Both Wagner and Berlioz were German composers.
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False
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Primitivism is a belief in the value of what is simple and unsophisticated, expressed as philosophy of life or through art or literature.
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True
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_______ is an opera whose structure is governed by considerations of dramatic effectiveness, rather than by the convention of having a series of formal arias.
Music drama Neo-classicism leitmotif Atonal |
Music drama
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Modest Musorgsky composed Pictures at an Exhibition based on paintings by _____
Pablo Picasso Victor Hartmann Vincent Van Gogh Leonardo da Vinci |
Viktor Hartmann
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