Romantic Period Final Review

An art song is a musical composition for what performing forces?

• violin and cello

• violin and piano

• Voice and piano
• a cappella choir

An orchestra toward the end of the romantic period might include close to ______ musicians.

• 40

• 100

• 24

• 60

While Wagner's Ring cycle features fantastical elements such as gods, giants, and magic, what is the opera really about?

• the colonization of Africa

• His family lineage

• The Renaissance

• 19th century society and culture

What is the term for instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene?

• opera

• program music

• nationalism

• exoticism

What romantic technique involves altering the character of a melody through changes in dynamics, orchestration, or rhythm?

• thematic transformation

• development

• melodic evolution

• rubato

Which musical form, often used in art songs, repeats the same music for each stanza of the poem?

• Repititious

• Sonata

• Through-composed form
• Strophic form

Wagner's preeminence was such that an opera house of his own design, solely for performances of his music dramas, was built where?

• Vienna State Opera

  Vienna, Austria

• La Scala

  Milan, Italy

• Bayreuth Festspielhaus Leipzig, Germany

• Bayreuth Festspielhaus Beyreuth, Germany

The German composers of art songs favored, among others, the lyric poetry of which writer?

• Heinrich Heine
• Victor Hugo

• Friedrich Schiller
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Schubert's songs number more than ______.

(give the highest number possible without going over)

• 500
• 700
• 800
• 600

Of all the inspirations for romantic art, none was more important than what subject?

• The Church

• Nature
• Art & Culture

• Greek Mythology