5 Written Questions

1. march to the scaffold
2. incidental music
3. is the shortest of his four symphonies
   is characterized by thematic connections among its four movements
   contains striking contrasts between major and minor
4. concert overture
5. African-American spirituals

5 Matching Questions

1. In the 1830s, Paris was
2. The first American concert pianist to gain international recognition was
3. Instrumental music that is written for its own sake, and for which the composer does not provide a program, is called
4. The composer whose career was a model for many romantic composers was
5. Parisians were startled by Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony because of its

1. a sensationally autobiographical program
   amazingly novel orchestration
   vivid description of the weird and diabolical
2. b Louis Moreau Gottschalk
3. c Ludwig van Beethoven
4. d absolute music
5. e a center of romanticism
   the artistic capital of Europe
   the home of Victor Hugo, Honore de Balzac, and Heinrich Heine

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. had a charismatic personality
   was an innovative composer
   was a stupendous performer
   1. Liszt's piano works are characterized by
   2. Most of Chopin's pieces
   3. In the 1830s, Paris was
   4. Liszt typified the romantic movement because he
2. Bedrich Smetana
   1. Chopin was
   2. Wagner's last opera was
   3. The founder of the Czech national music was
   4. The composer who developed the symphonic poem was
3. rarely
   1. Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet is a(n)
   2. Johannes Brahm's Symphony No.3 in F Major
   3. Wagner had an opera house built to his own specifications in
   4. Dvorak _________ quoted actual folk tunes in his compostions.
4. Dies irae
   1. In the first movement of the Concerto for Violin, the cadenza
   2. The liturgical melody quoted in the last movement of the Fantastic Symphony is the
   3. The composer who developed the symphonic poem was
   4. The first American concert pianist to gain international recognition was
5. polonaises/mazurkas
   1. Nonprogram music is also known as _________ music.
   2. Smetana's most popular opera is _________.
   3. Smetana grew up when Bohemia was under _________ domination.
   4. Chopin expressed his love of Poland by composing ______________ and _____________.

5 True/False Questions

1. It is interesting to note that an American orchestra, the __________, is one of the two orchestras that are the third-oldest in the world. → Austrian

   True        False

2. Chopin was → a wealthy benefactress who provided Tchaikovsky with an annuity

   True        False

3. Liszt created the __________, a one-movement orchestral composition based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea. → symphonic poem

   True        False

4. During his teens and twenties, Liszt lived in → Paris

   True        False

5. In 1892, Dvorak went to ______________, where he spent almost three years as director of the National Conservatory of Music. → New York

   True        False