Loyola Marymount University

MUSC 102

Quiz #4 - Romantic period

1)Which of the following is NOT characteristic of romanticism in music and the other arts:            

1. 1. exoticism
   2. fantasy
   3. emotional restraint
   4. subjectivity

2. Romantic style flourished in music during the period .

a. 1600-1750

b. 1750-1820

c. 1820-1900

d. 1900-1950

3. The slight holding back or pressing forward of tempo in music is known as      .

1. 1. ritardando
   2. rubato
   3. accelerando
   4. fermata

4. An art song is a musical composition for .

1. 1. solo voice and piano
   2. solo voice and orchestra
   3. multiple voices
   4. all of the above

5. The word          is commonly used for a romantic art song with a German text.

1. 1. Lied
   2. leader
   3. chanson
   4. ballade

6. Schubert’s song Erlkonig is an example of   form.

1. 1. modified strophic
   2. strophic
   3. AABA
   4. through-composed or narrative

7. Schubert was still an adolescent when he composed Erlkonig, set to a poem by           .

1. 1. Schubert himself
   2. Heinrich Heine
   3. Clara Schumann
   4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

8. What song by Schubert (to which we listened in class) did he choose to use as the theme in a theme and variations movement for chamber quintet?      .

1. 1. “Heidenroslein” (“The hedge rose”)
   2. Die Winterreise (“The winter’s journey”)
   3. “Die Forelle” (“The trout”)
   4. “Chiarina” (“Clara”)

9. Clara Wieck Schumann was       .

1. 1. one of the leading concert pianists of the nineteenth century
   2. a child prodigy
   3. the wife of composer Robert Schumann
   4. all of the above

10. While in Paris, Chopin        .

1. earned a good living by teaching piano to the daughters of the rich

2. married the famous writer Aurore Dudevant
3. gave a great number of successful public concerts
4. all of the above

11. A slow, lyrical, intimate composition for piano, associated with evening and night time, is the              .

1. 1. etude
   2. mazurka
   3. waltz
   4. nocturne

12. A study piece, designed to help a performer master specific technical difficulties, is known as the     .

1. nocturne
2. etude
3. polonaise
4. Lied

13. Franz Liszt toured Europe as a virtuoso     .

1. pianist
2. conductor
3. cellist
4. violisnist

14. Liszt was inspired by the performance virtuosity of whom some observers thought to be possessed by the devil

1. Paganini
2. Chopin
3. Wagner
4. Borodin

15. Of the composers studied,    had the most privileged upbringing.

1. Mendelssohn
2. Schubert
3. Dvorak
4. Verdi

16. Robert Schumann’s life was cut short by .

1. Exhaustion brought on by the demands of editing the Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik
2. His duel with his father-in-law who opposed his marriage
3. Tuberculosis
4. Mental illness

17. Which of the following is not a major opera by Verdi?

1. La Traviata
2. Otello
3. Rigoletto
4.   La Boheme

18. Verismo opera, such as Tosca, is a type of opera associated with the career of           .

1. Puccini
2. Verdi
3. Mendelssohn

4. Schumann

19. Program music is       .

1. an music that depicts aspects of nature.
2. vocal music that tells a story
3. instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene
4. all of the above

20. Instrumental music written for its own sake, and for which the composer did not intend a program, is called

        .

1. absolute music
2. Lieder
3. continuous music
4. music for its own sake

21. A              is an instrumental composition in several movements based to some extent on a literary or pictorial.

1. nocturne
2. program symphony
3. polonaise
4. concert overture

22. A          is a one-movement orchestral composition i free form that is programmatic.

1. mazurka
2. program symphony
3. symphonic poem
4. song cycle

23. Composers expressed musical nationalism in their music by                .

1. using the rhythms of the dances of their homeland
2. using their national legends as subject matter
3. basing their music on the folksongs of their country
4. all of the above

24. Smetana’s piece to which we listened was titled      .

1. Romeo and Juliet
2. The Moldau
3. “Heidenroslein”
4. Siegfried

25. The fourth movement of Berlioz’s Fantastic Symphony (Symphonie Fantastique) is a             .

1. waltz
2. minuet
3. march

26. The contrasting episodes in Berlioz’s Fantastic Symphony (The Symphonie Fantastique are unified by the recurrence of a theme representing the beloved (in reality, Harriet Smithson) known as the     .

1. subject
2. maid’s theme
3. Leitmotif
4. idee fixe