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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Which of the following best describes the role of women in nineteenth-century music? | The piano provided women with a socially acceptable performance outlet. |
| Which does NOT characterize Romantic music? | reserved emotions |
| The democratic character of the Romantic movement is illustrated by: | sympathy for the oppressed. interest in folk culture. faith in humankind and its destiny. all of the above |
| The poem Elfking was written by Heinrich Heine. | The poem Elfking was written by Heinrich Heine. |
| The song form that combines features of strophic and through-composed forms is called modified strophic. | The song form that combines features of strophic and through-composed forms is called modified strophic. |
| Schumann was a carefree spirit with a happy disposition who lived a long, productive life as a composer. | Schumann was a carefree spirit with a happy disposition who lived a long, productive life as a composer. |
| Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's output is dominated by: | Lieder and piano music. |
| As in the eighteenth century, nineteenth-century virtuoso pianists were almost always prominent composers as well. | False |
| The mazurka is a Hungarian folk dance. | False |
| Hymns from eighteenth-century America survived only through oral traditions. | True |
| Berlioz was one of the boldest musical innovators of the nineteenth century. | True |
| "The Mighty Five" were composers from: | Russia. |
| Who composed the opera The Bartered Bride? | Smetana |
| Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King from Peer Gynt is unified by a recurring: | theme. |
| Concertos in the nineteenth century often emphasized virtuosity. | True |
| The typical Romantic symphony has four movements. | True |
| Of the following, which does NOT describe symphony composition in the Romantic era? | Composers wrote more symphonies than their Classical counterparts. |
| The Harlem Renaissance was an early twentieth-century movement that promoted the creative efforts of African Americans. | True |
| In addition to composing music, Wagner was an important: | writer |
| What composer created the music drama? | Wagner |
| What was Verdi's last opera, completed at age eighty? | Falstaff |
| Wagner pushed major-minor tonality to extreme limits with his style of chromatic harmony. | True |
| Cio-Cio-San, in Puccini's Madame Butterfly, worked as a geisha prior to her marriage. | True |
| The solo voice begging for deliverance in the Libera me: Requiem aeternam section of Verdi's Requiem is: | a soprano. |
| Tchaikovsky suffered from depression and guilt over his homosexuality. | True |
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