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- The citizen's sense of national identify and patriotic feelings were intensified by
- Romanticism, which glorified love for one's national heritage, common bonds of language, culture, and history, military resistance to Napoleon.
- Which of the following statements is not true?
- The strongest inpact of musical nationalism was felt in Italy, France, Germany, and Austria.
- Liberetti that fanned the public's hatred for its Austrian overlords were deliberately chosen by the composer
- Giuseppe Verdi
- The strongest impact of musical nationalism was felt in
- Russia, the Scandinavian countries, Poland and Bohemia
- Which of the following countries did not produce important composers whose music had a national flavor?
- Norway
- The folk music of Russia sounds different from that of western Europe because it is often based on
- Ancient church modes
- The "father of Russian music" is
- Mikhail Glinka
- The opera that laid the ground work for a Russian national style, A Life for the Tsar, was xomposed by
- MIkhail Glinka
- The most original, and probably the greatest of
- Modest Mussorgsky
- Which of the following is not a composition by Modest Mussorgsky
- A life of the Tsar
- Mussorgsky's piano composition Pictures at an Exhibition is best known today in its brilliant orchestral arrangement by
- Maurice Ravel
- Which of the following statements is not true
- Puccini composed long highly ornamented melodies that are difficult to rember and perform well
- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Began to study music theory ayt the age of twenty one
- Nadezhda von Meck was
- A wealthy benefactress who provided Tchaikovsky with an annuity
- In 1891 Tchaikovsky was invited to the United States to conduct four concerts inaugurating
- Carnegie Hall, New York
- Tchaikovsky participated as a conductor in a concert inaugurating
- Carnegie Hall in New York
- Tchaikovsky's Sicth Symphony
- Ends with a slow, despairing finale
- Which of the following was not composed by Tchaikovsky
- Russian Easter Overture
- Which of the following is not a ballet by Tchaikovsky
- Coppelia
- At its premiere in 1870, Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Overture was
- a dismal failure
- Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Overture is
- A concert overture consisting of a slow introduction and a fast movement in sonata form
- Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet is an
- Concert overture
- Badich Smetana
- was the founder of Czech national music
- The founder of Czech national music was
- Bedih Smetana
- Smetana grew up when Bohemia was under _ domination
- Austrian
- As a result of foreign domination, the official language in Prague schools in Semtana's youth was
- Germany
- Smetana's most popular opera is
- The Bartered Bride
- Bedich Smetana's most fomous opera is
- The Bartered Bride
- Even though Smetana was deaf at the time, he composed a musical work depicting Bohemia's main river as it flows through the countryside. The name of the river, and the musical composition, is the
- Moldau
- The German master _ recommended Dvoak's music to his own publisher, resulting in a rapid spread of Dvoak's fame
- Johannes Brahms
- Antonin Dvoak's music was first promoted by
- Joannes Brahms
- Dovak "Found a secure bassis for a new national American Musical School" in
- African American Spirituals
- Antonin Dvoak _ Quoted actual folk tunes
- rarely
- In 1892 Dvoak went to _, where he spent almost three years as director of the Noational Conservatory of Music
- New York
- Antonin Dvoak's Symphony no. 9
- is his most famous work, is subtitled from the new world, glorifies both the czech and the American folk spirit
- In the first movement of the new world symphony, Dvoak
- composed a theme that resembles swing low, sweet chariot
- The popular character ot the new world symphony can be traced to the composer's use of _ often found in folk music
- Syncopation, pentatonic scales, modal scales
- In the second movement of dvoak new world symp. the nostalgic quality of the melody of the famous largo movement is heightened by the timber of the
- english horn
- The course of Brahms's artistic and personal life was shaped bye the influence ot the composer
- Robert Schumann and his wife Clara
- In vienna Johannes Brahms
- Conducted a viennese musical society, edited baroque and classical compositions, collected music manuscripts
- Music critics of the day pitted Brahms's foundness for traditional forms against
- Wagner's innovative music dramas
- Brahms wrote masterpieces in many musical forms, but never any
- Operas
- Brahms's work, though very personal in style, are rooted in the music of
- Joseph Hydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven
- Brahms's musical trademarks included
- the use of two note against three
- The original source for the theme of the foorth movement of Brahms's Fourth Symphony was a
- cantata by J.S. Bach
- The fourth movement of Brahms's Fourth Symphany is a _, a baroque variation form.
- passacaglia
- The most important opera house in Italy is
- La Scala, Milan
- La Scala, Italy's most important opera house is located in
- Milan
- Verdi studied music in _, the city where Italy's most important opera house, La Scala, is located
- Milan
- Verdi's first great success, an opera with strong political overtones, was
- Nabucco
- Critics were often scandalized by the subject matter of Verdi's operas because they
- seemed to condome rape, suicide, and free love
- Verdi's great comic masterpiece, written when he was seventy nine is
- Falstaff
- Remarkably, at the age of seventy nine, Verdi completed his comic masterpiee
- Falstaff
- The liberettist of Giuseppe Verdi's operas Otello
- Arrigo Boit
- Veri's opera commissioned to commemorate the completion of the Suez cannal is
- Aida
- Which of the following operas is not by Verdi
- Cavalleria rusticana
- Biuseppe Verdi mainly composed his poeras
- to entertain a mass public
- The slul of a Verdi opera is
- Expressive vocal melody
- Verdi's latest operas differ from his earlier ones in that they have
- less difference between aria and receiative, greater musical continuity, more imaginative orchestrations
- Rigoletto, the title role in Giuseppe Verdi's opera is all of the following except
- The romantic lover
- Rigoletto, the title character in Verdi's opera is
- a hunchback, court jester to the duke of Mantua, the father of Gilda
- The famous aria La donna e mobile is taken from verdi's opera
- rigoletto
- giacamo puccini's forst sucessful opera was
- manon lescaut
- giacomp puccini's operas have lasting appeal because
- he had a marvelous sense of theather, his melodies have short memorable phrases and are intinsely emotional, he mimimized the difference between aria and recitative, thus creating a continuous flow of music
- Which of the following operas wer not composed by gaicomo puccini
- I Pagliacci
- Which of the following poeras was not composed by Puccini
- Aida
- Giacomo puccini, in his operas
- achieved unity and continuity by using the same material in different acts, used the orchestra to reinfource the vocal melody and suggest mood, composed melodies that have short memorable phrases and are intensely emotional
- An artistic trend of the 1890's in which oreras delt with ordinary people and true to life situations was known as
- verismo
- The movement in opera known as verismo is best exemplified by
- giacomo puccini
- which of the following operas is not considered an ex of verismo
- turandot
- Some ofPuccini's poeras feature exoticism, as in his use of melodic and rhythemic elements derived from Japanese and Chinese music in his operas
- Madame Butterfly and Turadot
- Puccini used melodic and rhythemic elements derived from Asian music in his operas
- Madame Butterfly and Turadot
- Giacomo Puccini's opera La Boheme takes place in
- Paris
- In puccini's La Boheme, Rodolfo is a young
- poet
- Mimi and Rodolfo meet for the first time in La Boheme because she has come to his door to ask for a
- light for her candle
- Who sings the aria che gleida manina in La Boheme
- Rodolfo
- At the end of act I of puccini's opera la boheme, rodolfo and mimi
- go to the cafe together in love
- wagner's preeminence was such that an opera house of his own desigh was built in _, solely for performance of his music dramas
- Bayreuth, Bavaria
- Wagner had an opera house built to his own specifications in
- Bayreuth
- Wagner envisioned the music drama as a gestmtkunstwerk, or universial art work, in which
- all the above
- the composer who had an overwhelming influence on the young wagner was
- ludwig van bethoven
- Wagner was appointed conductor of the Dresden opera mainly because of the success of his first opera
- rienzi
- Richard wagner's first successful opera was
- rienzi
- Which of the followin goperas was not composed by richard wagner
- fidelio
- the liberetto to the ring of the nibelung were written by
- wagner himself
- richard wagner's last opera was
- parsifal
- wagner called his works music dramas rather than operas because
- all of the above
- a short musical idea associated with a person object or though used by richard wagner in his operas is called
- leitmotif
- Richard wagner spins as orchestral web out of recurrent musical themes called
- legitmotifs
- Valhalla, in wagner's ring cycle, is
- the castle of the gods
- which of the following statements concerning
- sieglinde is a valkyrie, one of the daughtersof wotan
- siegmund, in wagner's opera die walkure, is
- all the above
- at the end of the first act of wagner's opera die walkure
- all the above
- which of the following statemenst is not true
- having spent the major portion of his life conducting operas, it is not suprising that his output is mainly in that genre
- Mahler began his professional musical life as a
- conductor of the musical comedies
- by supervising every aspect of its performances mahler brought the _ to the new heights of excellence
- vienna opera
- by personally supervising the acting, costumes, scenery and music of every performance, Mahler brought the _ to new heights of excellence
- Vienna opera
- When he was twenty, gustav mahler began his conducting career directing_at a summer resort
- musical comedies
- By the age of twenty eight, Mahler was director of the
- Budapest opera
- The major portion of Mahler's creative output
- Symphonies
- Mahler's experiences in New York were not happy because
- all of the above
- Which of the following works was not compsed by Gustav Mahler
- Die Winterreise
- Mahler's Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen is a
- Song cycle
- Mahler depicts an alienated wanderer in his song
- Song of a wayfarer