Music Chp 21

Front 1

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.

Back 1

subjective

Front 2

__________ 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

Back 2

Individualism

Front 3

(T/F) A fundamental goal of the Romantic style was the blending of painting, literature, and music.

Back 3

TRUE

Front 4

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

Back 4

romance

Front 5

Each of the following terms applies to the Romantic period except

Back 5

-mythical.
X mundane
-heroic
-supernatural

Front 6

(T/F) Many Romantics replaced God with nature, or saw God in nature.

Back 6

TRUE

Front 7

Nineteenth-century society was entirely changed by the __________ Revolution.

Back 7

Industrial

Front 8

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

Back 8

middle

Front 9

(T/F) No one produced "art for art's sake" during the Romantic period, when artists sought to please everyone's tastes.

Back 9

FALSE

Front 10

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

Back 10

Nationalism

Front 11

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

Back 11

-exotic cultures and distant places.
X the musical forms of the Classical style.
-supernatural tales and science fiction.
-an idealized, mystical view of nature.

Front 12

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.

Back 12

science

Front 13

Charles Darwin wrote the controversial book _____________ which was praised by those who loved nature but criticized by those who strongly believed in individualism.

Back 13

-Frankenstein
-Legend of Sleepy Hollow
-History of England
NONE OF THE ABOVE

Front 14

(T/F) Romantics allowed reason to control their emotions, and thus recovered from physical or mental disorders brought about, or aggravated, by their frustrated emotional states.

Back 14

FALSE

Front 15

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

Back 15

literature

Front 16

All of the following were characteristic of Romantic architecture except

Back 16

- little was produced that was new, interesting, or even attractive.
-builders were eclectic in their choice of styles, imitating rather than innovating.
X churches, which often symbolized a kind of rational faith during this period, were simple and Classical in style.
-opera houses exploited the more fantastic aspects of the Baroque.

Front 17

(T/F) During the Romantic period, public buildings often followed classical lines, more from a sense of convention than from any artistic conviction.

Back 17

TRUE

Front 18

Innovation in sculpture was rather dormant, although the nineteenth century produced the great sculptor

Back 18

Rodin

Front 19

Two Englishmen, Constable and Turner, were the greatest of all __________ painters, in accordance with their romantic love and reverence for nature.

Back 19

landscape

Front 20

(T/F) It was during the nineteenth century that music first became a lucrative business.

Back 20

TRUE

Front 21

All of the following were TRUE of the Romantic period except

Back 21

-music entrepreneurs, including P. T. Barnum, brought music to a wider-than-ever audience.
-virtuoso musicians, who were in great demand during this age which exalted the individual, finally had the services of managers.
- as the public became more musically aware, choral societies were organized.
X printed music was expensive and not widely available.

Front 22

(T/F) Romantic composers generally preferred long, lyrical melody lines to the motivic melodies associated with the Classical composers.

Back 22

TRUE

Front 23

The varied repetition of expressive melodies, often associated with extra-musical ideas, is called

Back 23

transformation

Front 24

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

Back 24

cyclic

Front 25

All of the following were characteristic of Romantic harmony except

Back 25

-the concept of tonal harmony was greatly expanded during the nineteenth century.
-chromaticism was used more freely, and increasingly dissonant chords provided colorful and dramatic effects.
X the orchestra decreased in size.
-for the first time, orchestration became an art in itself.

Front 26

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

Back 26

expression

Front 27

Nikolai Andreyevich Rimski-Korsakov and the following Russian composers were all associated with the nationalistic movement known as The Five except

Back 27

- Mili Balakirev.
- Alexander Borodin.
-Modest Mussorgsky.
X Peter Tchaikovsky.

Front 28

-multimovement form unified by recurrence of the same or similar melodic material in two or more movements

Back 28

cyclic form

Front 29

-late nineteenth-century artistic movement in which the consciousness of national characteristics led artists of manynationalities to turn from the dominance of German influence in the arts to reflect the cultural characteristics of their own and other countries

Back 29

nationalism