Final Exam review - part 2

The large size of the Romantic orchestra resulted in the need for a ___________.

• conductor

• keyboardist

• violinist

• manager

A Lied is an art song for solo voice and piano sung in ________.

• French

• Latin

• Italian

• German

Stephen Foster helped to build a powerful musical industry in the __________ in the nineteenth century, even though he earned very little from sales of his sheet music.

• Republic of Ireland

• United States

• United Kingdom

• Canadian provinces

Which of the following was NOT a way that composers of programmatic music portrayed nationalistic sentiments in nineteenth-century music?

• evoking the country's landscape

• basing the work on regional folklore

• utilizing ritornello form

• celebrating a national hero

By the Romantic era, music had moved from the palace to the ____________.

• church

• public square

• battlefield

• concert hall

What piece by Hector Berlioz revolutionized the programmatic symphony in the nineteenth-century?

• Die Waulkrie

• Symphonie Fantastique

• Symphony in G

• Eroica

Wagner's cycle of four music dramas is called:

• Lohengrin

• Tristan and Isolde

• The Ring of the Nibelung

• Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Italian comic opera is called ________:

• opera seria

• opéra comique

• opera buffa

• Singspiel

Tchaikovsky's fanciful ballet about a child's Christmas gift and dreams of exotic people and places is:

• Swan Lake

• Sleeping Beauty

• Pathétique

• The Nutcracker

Impressionism in music is best exemplified by the works of:

• Claude Debussy

• Gustav Mahler

• Hector Berlioz

• Frédéric Chopin