Gvsu Music 100 Quiz 3

Front 1

Late-19th century Italian opera
Known for its realistic portrayals and storylines.
What is the Italian term for this type of opera?

Back 1

Opera comique?

Front 2

How did music come to be labeled “Romantic”?

Back 2

Used by writers of literature in the nineteenth century and adopted by musicians

Front 3

Which is true of the relative status of music by the end of the nineteenth century?
A) Music was considered subway noise.

B) Music became less and less important as a separate art form because various art forms were combined.

C) Music was considered the ultimate art form.

D) Music was the least important of the arts.

Back 3

Music was considered the ultimate art form.

Front 4

Which harmonic technique makes liberal use of all 12 pitches in a musical scale?

Back 4

Chromaticism—harmonies that make use of all 12 notes within a musical octave
All Romantic composers utilized chromaticism to different extents
Wagner epitomizes chromaticism in 19th century
20th century takes it to a completely different level

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In nineteenth-century opera, the orchestra:
A) disappeared completely.

B) was reduced to a small group as opera houses became smaller.

C) became overpowering.

D) increased in importance, sometimes providing special effects and overshadowing the voices.

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D) increased in importance, sometimes providing special effects and overshadowing the voices.

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Which statement is false?
A) Romantic melodies were longer and less predictable than in earlier musical periods.

B) In Romantic music, harmony was enjoyed for its own sake and was used for emotional expression.

C) In Romantic music, rhythm was treated more freely than before.

D) Romantic harmonies were clearer and more diatonic, and they established a stronger sense of tonality than in earlier musical periods.

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D) Romantic harmonies were clearer and more diatonic, and they established a stronger sense of tonality than in earlier musical periods.

Front 7

As rebels against the social order, which composers associated themselves with revolutionary and libertarian politics?

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Beethoven and Bonaparte
Franz Liszt half-communist/half-religious
Giuseppe Verdi’s name used as acronym for Italian liberation movement
Richard Wagner expelled from Germany for inflammatory speeches

Front 8

Who introduced the symphonic poem to the world?

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Franz Liszt

Front 9

How many different “characters” do you hear in Erlkönig?
Who are they?
What happens at the end of the song?

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4
Father, son, Erlkonig, horse, narrator
Father arrives home to find son dead

Front 10

The Ring of the Nibelung is based on
A) a play by Shakespeare.

B) a popular Swedish soap opera.

C) a poem by Schopenhauer.

D) Germanic or Norse legends.

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D) Germanic or Norse legends.

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What is a “song cycle”?

Back 11

Group of songs with a common poetic theme or unifying story

Front 12

Which famous symphony of Hector Berlioz contains an idée fixe?

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Symphonie fantastique

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Who was the founder of German Romantic Opera?

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Carl Maria von Weber

Front 14

Who (not what) was the important new member to the orchestra in the 19th century?

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conductor

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What is the word for a musical theme, when it is used to represent a character, idea or event in an opera?

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Leitmotiv

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Who composed Erlkönig?

Back 16

Franz Schubert

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Erlkönig is an example of which musical genre?

Back 17

Art song

Front 18

bel canto, what is it?

Back 18

Glorifying the human voice

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Total Art Work (in German)
A) Gesundheit
B) Gegenüberliegend
C) Gesamtkunstwerk
D) Gegenwart

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C) Gesamtkunstwerk

Front 20

What is the title of Wagner’s first completed music drama? (It’s an example of the term above, and ends with Liebestod or Love Death)

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Tristan and Isolde

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Romantic treatment of form was:
A) inexcusable.

B) close to that of the Classical era.

C) free and spontaneous.

D) innovative but highly structured.

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C) free and spontaneous.

Front 22

What Wagner was particularly against in opera
A) special effects

B) good singing

C) Norse legends

D) arias

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D) Arias

Front 23

Why was Johannes Brahms sometimes considered a nostalgic composer?

Back 23

He put a modern voice to old ideas

Front 24

The final movement of Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 is the orchestral song Das himmlische Leben. Taken from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, it is meant to illustrate:

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Childs vision of heaven

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The Fantastic Symphony is
A) a propoganda piece.

B) a Baroque composition.

C) a Concert Overture.

D) a Program Symphony

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D) a Program Symphony.

Front 26

Romantic opera began to surface in what country?
When?

Back 26

Italy
1820

Front 27

Who is called the father of Italian Grand Opera?

Back 27

Verdi

Front 28

La Traviata
Composed by?
Set in?
An example of?

Back 28

Verdi
Paris
Italian Grand Opera

Front 29

In La Traviata, what is Violetta’s profession?

Back 29

Prostitution

Front 30

Name the four operas (musical dramas) which make up
Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung).

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Das Rheingold (The Rhine Gold)
Die Walküre (The Valkyrie)
Siegfried
Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods)