Music Appreciation

who was a widely loved nationalist opera composer ? Giuseppe verdi What is NOT a well-known Verdi opera ? Carmen richard Wagner's first operatic success was a grand opera entitled Rienzi in addition to composing music, who was an important writer ? wagner in the ring cycle, who is the father of gods ? Wotan who was NOT a composer of Italian opera in the late Romantic era ? Georges Bizet who is NOT an opera by Giacomo Puccini ? Pagliacci Puccini's what ends tragically ? Madame Butterfly The two principa centers of nineteenth-century ballet were ? France and Russia Peter Tchaikovsky was famous for his ? ballets Tchaikovsky's fanciful ballet about a child's Christmas gift and dreams of exortic people and places is called ? The nutcracker. What is the movement that, along with post-romanticism, ushered in the twentieth-century ? Impressionism Who was a dynamic composer and conductor who seved as director of both Vienna Opera and the New York Philharmonic ? Gustav Mahler Gustav Mahler;s song of the Earth sets text by ? a chinese poet Impressionism was a style cultivated principally in ? Paris Impressionism in music is best exemplified by the works of ? Claude debussy The expressionist movement originated in ? Germany the melody in twelve-tone music is called ? a tone row the element that most decisively separated twentieth-century music from that of the past was ? harmony in what ways did the Non-Western arts infuence twentieth-century western arts ? - western artists sought the spontaneity of primitive art. - the abstraction of African sculpture influences Western painters. - Non-Western rhythms were adopted by Western composers. The program of Debussy's Prelude to "the Afternoon of the rFaun" evokes a pagan landscape of ? a mythological creature.