MUS 110: Music for Public Spaces

1. ________________________ - a large work (or genre) for orchestra, generally in four movements.

• Symphony

• Concerto

• Sonata

• Opera

2. ____________________________ - a performing group, made up of the different families of instruments

• Orchestra

• Choir

• Band

• Quartet

5. Beethoven was a composer in the __________________ era but served as a bridge into the Romantic period.

• Classical

• Baroque

• Modern

• Renaissance

Beethoven composed ______ symphonies.

• 9

• 7

• 5

• 12

Beethoven’s 5th Symphony has a 4-note motive that unifies all four of the movements. It was described by Beethoven as “________________________________________.”

• fate knocking at the door

• a call to arms

• the sound of destiny

• a song of hope

________________________ music is instrumental music with literary or pictorial associations. Vivaldi composed this type of music in the Baroque period, but it really became an important type of instrumental music in the Romantic Period.

• Program

• Absolute

• Chamber

• Folk

________________________ music is a type of instrumental music without literary or pictorial elements. Romantics preferred program music over this type of music.

• Absolute

• Folk

• Jazz

• Electronic

________________________ was a French composer who was influenced by the works of Beethoven and Shakespeare and was the first great composer of Romanticism in France.

• Hector Berlioz

• Claude Debussy

• Camille Saint-Saëns

• Maurice Ravel

Symphonie Fantastique was composed by Berlioz. It has ______ movements.

• five

• three

• four

• six

Each of the movements in Symphonie Fatstique takes the listeners through the story of Berlioz' infatuation with ________________________.

• Harriet Smithson

• Clara Schumann

• George Sand

• Camille Saint-Saëns