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WorksheetsRomantic Era I
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 16mins
When did the Romantic Era take place?
1750-1825
1820-1900
1600-1750
1400-1600
Which Classical composer really pushed the boundaries of Classical form and helped usher in the Romantic Era?
Mozart
Haydn
Beethoven
Scarlatti
During the Romantic Era, shorter pieces of music (generally one movement) that had some programmatic elements were referred to as:
Character Pieces
Sonatas
Symphonies
Lieder
German poetry set to music is called:
Lied
Song
Singspiel
Character Piece
A collection of poems by the same poet all set to music is called:
Song Cycle
Multi-movement Cycle
Lieder
Song Group
This composer wrote over 600 German Art Songs.
Franz Schubert
Robert Schumann
Mozart
Beethoven
Art Songs exercised the practice of text painting, which is:
using the music to describe what's happening in the poem.
using another art medium to depict the poem.
using poetry as the libretto for an opera.
using poems to inspire other art forms.
This composer also wrote German Art Songs. His approach to writing made the piano and voice equally expressive partners. Many of his songs had detailed piano intros, interludes, or codas.
Franz Schubert
Robert Schumann
Franz Liszt
Frederic Chopin
This Hungarian composer was a famous virtuoso pianist who wrote showy music for himself to perform on tour. Some people regard him as one of the first real "rock stars" of music history.
Franz Schubert
Franz Liszt
Robert Schumann
Maurice Gottschalk
This composer moved from Warsaw, Poland to Paris, France where he me other famous composers of the Romantic Era. His music had a Polish flavor to it. Most people are familiar with his Nocturnes and Piano Etudes.
Franz Liszt
Frederic Chopin
Franz Schubert
Robert Schumann
A Nocturne is a piece of music that is supposed to represent the calm emotions of...
The Spring
The Night
The Day
Church music
The word Etude means:
Study
Attitude
Art Song
Night Music
More and more common people were able to afford musical instruments because:
Jobs were better.
The Industrial Revolution helped lower production costs of instruments.
The Industrial Revolution made people want to spend more time on music rather than work.
People cared about music more than the other arts during the Romantic Era.
Franz Liszt wrote a collection of one-movement symphonic pieces that depicted different stories/images/scenes. These symphonic works are called:
Programmatic Symphonies
Symphonic Poems
Symphonic Lieder
Pictorial Symphonies
Which of the following were orchestral pieces that Franz Liszt wrote? (Select all that apply)
"Hamlet"
"Zeus"
"Mazeppa"
"Poland"
The focus of the Romantic Era was...
Evoking love
Evoking extreme emotions
Reinventing sacred music
an emphasis on humorous pieces
