Music Test 4

Front 1

Beethoven's life spanned the boundary of the ____________ and ____________ Eras.

Back 1

classical
romantic

Front 2

Beethoven was born in _________, Germany.

Back 2

Bonn

Front 3

Beethoven's father was an alcoholic.

Back 3

true

Front 4

Beethoven expanded the number of acts in an opera and added more elaborate sets.

Back 4

false

Front 5

Beethoven's first symphony started in the wrong key.

Back 5

true

Front 6

Beethoven's on-coming _______ caused him to contemplate suicide.

Back 6

disease

Front 7

What did Beethoven wear around his neck in order to record conversations with others?

Back 7

ear trumpet and a notebook

Front 8

Beethoven studied briefly with ______, but the lessons did not go well.

Back 8

Hayden

Front 9

What was the great tragedy of Beethoven's life?

Back 9

going deaf

Front 10

At the time of his death, Beethoven was living in_________.

Back 10

Vienna

Front 11

Beethoven has a wife and 14 children.

Back 11

false

Front 12

Beethoven was outgoing and sociable.

Back 12

false

Front 13

During his "heroic years" Beethoven became wealthy.

Back 13

true

Front 14

What is the most striking thing about the compositions from Beethoven's "heroic" phase?

Back 14

the length

Front 15

Beethoven waged a war to gain custody of Karl, his ________________.

Back 15

nephew

Front 16

Beethoven broke with the conventions of the times by having a choir ________ and a soloist in the first movement of his Ninth Symphony.

Back 16

choir

Front 17

Who's music is played, written about, and recorded more frequently than the music of any other composer in the world?

Back 17

Beethoven

Front 18

The text for the last movement of the Ninth Symphony is a poem, "Ode to Joy", written by the German poet, _______________.

Back 18

Schiller

Front 19

Beethoven's last three years were dedicated solely to ______________.

Back 19

string quartets

Front 20

How many symphonies did Beethoven compose?

Back 20

9

Front 21

During the latter part of Beethoven's life, ___________ began to appear.

Back 21

music journalism

Front 22

Beethoven's music contained a deep expression of personal feeling.

Back 22

true

Front 23

As a musical style, did Romanticism have a wide range if works by composers in many genres.

Back 23

true

Front 24

Politically, the most important event for the nineteenth century was the ______________.

Back 24

French Revolution

Front 25

By the last part of the century, most middle-class homes had what instrument in the parlor?

Back 25

piano

Front 26

By 1830, the standard range of the piano was _______ octaves.

Back 26

7

Front 27

New instruments such as the ______ and the ___________ were invented during the Romantic Era.

Back 27

tube
saxophone

Front 28

Modulation is the movement between and among _____________.

Back 28

keys

Front 29

What is term for music that has no meaning outside of the meaning of the music itself?

Back 29

absolute music

Front 30

What is instrumental music that is associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene?

Back 30

program music

Front 31

Were Opera and Symphonies the least extensive genres with not many of them being written during the Romantic era?

Back 31

false

Front 32

Romantic writers and thinkers were fascinated by the notion of______________.

Back 32

the individual

Front 33

What legendary violinist inspired Schumann, Chopin, Liszt and other to become virtuoso performers.

Back 33

Paganini

Front 34

Woman fainted and people mobbed the stage when the piano virtuoso _________ would perform.

Back 34

Franz Liszt

Front 35

Were there many women who became famous as composers and performers during the nineteenth century?

Back 35

true

Front 36

Were Romantic songs designed to be sung in large concert halls?

Back 36

false

Front 37

Through-composed songs are ____________.

Back 37

those in which the music is different for each stanza.

Front 38

Name two women who were among he most important in the history of the nineteenth century music.

Back 38

Fanny Mendelssohn
Clara Schumann

Front 39

Schubert's father wanted him to become a ________________.

Back 39

schoolmaster

Front 40

Romantic songs are solo songs for ___________ and __________.

Back 40

specific word painting
general atmosphere

Front 41

Schubert wrote over ______ art songs and used much text painting in his accompaniments.

Back 41

600

Front 42

Did Mendelssohn wrote the oratorio, ______________ and caused a renewed interest in the music of the Baroque Era with his performance of "St. Matthew's Passion" by __________.

Back 42

Elijah & St. Paul
Bach

Front 43

Did Mendelssohn have poor and humble beginnings?

Back 43

false

Front 44

Berlioz'a "Symphonie Fantastique" is one of he earliest examples of ____________.

Back 44

Romantic program music

Front 45

Mendelssohn's closest friend and confidante was

Back 45

Fanny, his sister

Front 46

Are Chopin's symphonies frequently performed today as a great examples of the symphonic genre?

Back 46

true

Front 47

A nocturne is _________________.

Back 47

moody, introspective pieces

Front 48

An etude is ________.

Back 48

a study piece

Front 49

Did Brahms marry Clara Schumann after her husband, Robert Schumann died?

Back 49

false

Front 50

Did the composers that followed Beethoven attempt to mach the force and depth of his music?

Back 50

true