4th Quarter Quiz in Music: Romantic Era Vocal Music Part 1

It became an important source of musical expressions

• Symphony

• Passagio

• Opera

• String Quartets

He was born on the 31st of January 1797 in Himmelpfortgrund, Austria and is considered the last of the classical composers and one of the first romantic

ones.

• Giuseppe Verdi

• Giacomo Puccini

• Wilhelm Richard Wagner

• Franz Peter Schubert

He studied in Busseto and later went to

Milan where his first opera “Oberto” was

performed in La Scala, the most

important opera house at the time.

• Giuseppe Verdi

• Giacomo Puccini

• Wilhelm Richard Wagner

• Franz Peter Schubert

He was an advocate of a new form of

opera which he called “music

drama” where musical and dramatic

elements were fused together.

• Giuseppe Verdi

• Giacomo Puccini

• Wilhelm Richard Wagner

• Franz Peter Schubert

He belonged to a group of composers who stressed realism, therefore, he drew material from everyday life, rejecting heroic themes from mythology and history.

• Giuseppe Verdi

• Giacomo Puccini

• Wilhelm Richard Wagner

• Franz Peter Schubert

His most famous opera is “Carmen”.

• Georges Bizet

• Giacomo Puccini

• Wilhelm Richard Wagner

• Franz Peter Schubert

The book that the composer and librettist put together is

called a _________

• Score

• Libretto

• Aria

• Acts

An air or solo singing part that the public will remember best when leaving the opera house.

• Passagio

• Recitative

• Aria

• Score

It is the main division of an opera

• Acts

• Scene

• Recitative

• Aria

Known as the the texts of an opera.

• Score

• Recitative

• Aria

• Libretto