Programmatic Music Quiz

Which period of music heavily used programmatic music?

• Classical

• Baroque

• Renaissance

• Romantic

What is the premier technique of programmatic music?

• Harmony

• Rhythm

• Tone Painting

• Counterpoint

Who composed the famous tone poem 'Also sprach Zarathustra'?

• Ludwig van Beethoven

• Johann Sebastian Bach

• Richard Wagner

• Richard Strauss

Which composer's 1933 score to 'King Kong' changed the course of movie music history?

• Ennio Morricone

• Hans Zimmer

• John Williams

• Max Steiner

What is the term for music that's associated with a program story, poem, or other literary devices?

• Instrumental Music

• Classical Music

• Absolute Music

• Programmatic Music

Which composer wrote the symphony 'Fantastique' with a detailed program torn from a fanciful self-depiction of an unrequited love?

• Hector Berlioz

• Franz Liszt

• Ludwig van Beethoven

• Richard Strauss

What is the term for the literal depiction of words through music?

• Tone Painting

• Musical Imitation

• Text Depiction

• Text Expression

Which composer's opera 'Orfeo ed Euridice' features the entrance of Orfeo to the underworld with dramatic orchestration and tone painting?

• Giuseppe Verdi

• Christoph Willibald Gluck

• Richard Wagner

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Who was known for his dramatic portrayals of situations in his operas, including thunder and an earthquake?

• Christoph Willibald Gluck

• Ludwig van Beethoven

• Johann Sebastian Bach

• Jean-Philippe Rameau

Which composer created a new genre of work called the tone poem, which is a one-movement work that depicts a scenario usually from a story?

• Gustav Mahler

• Richard Wagner

• Franz Liszt

• Ludwig van Beethoven