Music Composer And Their History Practice Quiz! Trivia
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- 1.The composer whose career was a model for many romantic composers was
- A.
Mozart
- B.
Bach
- C.
Beethoven
- 2.When music conservatories were founded, women
- A.
Were admitted only as vocalists or pianists
- B.
Were at first accepted only as students of performance, but by the late 1800's could study musical composition
- C.
Were not admitted
- 3.Schubert's songs number more than
- A.
50
- B.
100
- C.
600
- 4.Schumann's works are
- A.
Intensely autobiographical
- B.
Usually linked with descriptive titles, texts, or programs
- C.
Essentially lyrical in nature
- D.
All of the above
- 5.Clara Wieck was
- A.
the daughter of Schumann's piano teacher
- B.
A virtuoso pianist
- C.
Schumann's wife
- D.
All of the above
- 6.As a writer and critic, Schumann
- A.
Founded and edited the "New Journal of Music"
- B.
Discovered and made famous some of the leading composers of his day
- C.
Wrote appreciative review of young "radical" composers like Chopin and Berlioz
- D.
All of the above
- 7.In the 1830s when Chopin lived in Paris, it was
- A.
A center of romanticism
- B.
The artistic capital of Europe
- C.
The home of Victor Hugo, Honore de Balzac, and Heinrich Heine
- D.
All of the above
- 8.Chopin was
- A.
An extroverted virtuoso
- B.
Robust and flamboyant
- C.
Shy and reserved
- 9.Liszt typified the romantic movement because he
- A.
Had a charismatic personality
- B.
Was a stupendous performer
- C.
Was an innovative composer
- D.
All of the above
- 10.Liszt created the _____________________, a one-movement orchestral composition based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea.
- A.
Opera
- B.
Symphonic poem
- C.
Piano concerto
- 11.Mendelssohn is known as the man who rekindled an interest in the music of
- A.
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
- B.
Johann Sebastian Bach
- C.
George Frideric Handel
- 12.Parisians were startled by Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony because of its
- A.
Sensationally autobiographical program
- B.
Amazingly novel orchestration
- C.
Vivid description of the weird and diabolical
- D.
All of the above
- 13.Nadezhda von Meck was
- A.
One of Tchaikovsky's lovers
- B.
A wealthy benefactress who provided Tchaikovsky with an annuity
- C.
Tchaikovsky's wife
- 14.At its premiere in 1870, Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Overture was
- A.
A tremendous success
- B.
A dismal failure
- C.
Performed by a large orchestra, with chorus and cannon
- 15.Critics were often scandalized by the subject matter of Verdi's operas because they
- A.
Commemorated the Suez canal, which was not even in Europe
- B.
Were based on Shakespearean plays
- C.
Seemed to condone rape, suicide, and free love
- 16.Verdi's great comic masterpiece, written when he was seventy-nine, is
- A.
Il Trovatore
- B.
Otello
- C.
Falstaff
- 17.Verdi studied music in _____________, the city where Italy's most important opera house, La Scala, is located.
- A.
New York City
- B.
Venice
- C.
Milan
- 18.Verdi mainly composed his operas
- A.
To entertain a mass public
- B.
For the Italian musical elite
- C.
To glorify the singers
- 19.Puccini's opera has lasting appeal because
- A.
He had a marvelous sense of theater
- B.
His melodies have short, memorable phrases and are intensely emotional
- C.
He minimized the difference between aria and recitative, thus created a continuous flow of music
- D.
All of the above
- 20.An artistic trend of the 1890s, in which operas dealt with ordinary people and true-to-life situations, was known as
- A.
Cavalleria rusticana
- B.
Verismo
- C.
Exoticism
- 21.Wagner called his works "music dramas" rather than operas because
- A.
There is a continuous musical flow within each act
- B.
There are no breaks where applause can interrupt
- C.
The vocal line is inspired by the rhythms and pitches of the German text
- D.
All of the above
- 22.A short musical idea associated with a person, object, or thought, used by Wagner in his operas, is called
- A.
Leitmotif
- B.
Lied
- C.
Unending melody
- 23.Wagner had an opera house built to his own specifications in
- A.
Weimar
- B.
Miami
- C.
Bayreuth
- 24.The deliberate intent to draw creative inspiration from the composer's own homeland is known as
- A.
Exoticism
- B.
Nationalism
- C.
Verismo
- 25.The typical orchestra of the late romantic period numbered about ___________ musicians.
- A.
15
- B.
40
- C.
100
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