Russia's most cherished composer, who was most influential in setting the accepted stereotype for ballet:

  Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

  Richard Wagner

  Francisco Tárrega

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

(a)  

One of the few child prodigies of the Romantic, most recognized for his rediscovery of J. S. Bach's music & his own 'Wedding March':

  Franz Liszt

  Richard Wagner

  Felix Mendelssohn

  Francisco Tárrega

(a)  

A private gathering in the home where guests entertained each other:

  nocturne

  incidental music

  interlude

  salon

(a)  

The story line of a ballet:

  scenario

  libretto

  melodrama

  music drama

(a)  

Band music received unprecedented popularity & evolved into performing organizations outside the military because of marches by:

  Johann Strauss Jr.

  Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  John Philip Sousa

(a)  

Many of Berlioz’s contemporaries criticized his music as being:

  too simple

  too political

  too loud

  too complex

(a)  

Which of the following is true of Romantic orchestral works:

  composers began writing fewer symphonies as they became longer & more complex

  all of these

  orchestra became larger

  more emphasis on brass & percussion

(a)  

Hungarian piano virtuoso hailed as the greatest showman of the age, also credited as inventor of the tone poem:

  Franz Liszt

  Franz Schubert

  Frédéric Chopin

  Clara Schumann

 

(a)  

A philosophy that promotes intuitive thinking based on spiritualism, over empirical thinking based on materialism:

  humanism

  classicism

  existentialism

  transcendentalism

(a)  

Which of these would not be considered an aspect of Romanticism:

  a rejection of classicism

  less mingling with aristocrats

  greater integration of instrumental music with extra-musical ideas

  more music performances in middle class homes

(a)  

Song structure in which every verse of the text is sung to the same musical tune:

  song cycle

  through-composed

  patter song

  strophic form

(a)  

Name given to five composers of Russian nationality, credited with using as their inspiration Russian church music and Russian folk tunes, thus developing their own nationalistic style:

  none of these

  nationalism

  mighty handful

  celesta

(a)  

Term describing the movement in the mid 19th century in which composers felt compelled to infuse features into their music, so that it would declare its connection to their homeland:

  existentialism

  transcendentalism

  nationalism

  incidental music

(a)  

Music that is intended to accompany a dramatic performance, such as a play:

  music drama

  absolute music

  program music

  incidental music

(a)  

Musical expansion of a theme achieved by varying its melodic outline, its harmony, or its rhythm

  leitmotif

  program music

  thematic transformation

  tone poem

(a)  

A one-movement orchestral genre that develops a poetic idea, suggests a scene, or creates a mood:

  interlude

  tone poem

  absolute music

  music drama

(a)  

Less serious form of opera made up of spoken dialog, songs and dances, typically written to have a popular appeal to the audience of it's day:

  music drama

  Broadway musical

  tone poem

  operetta

(a)  

A recurring motif in a composition (usually an opera) which represents a specific person, idea, or emotion:

  music drama

  melodrama

  leitmotif

  thematic transformation

(a)  

Term applied to Richard Wagner's operas and other such composition that combine music, scenery, text, costume, etc., to create a whole, cohesive imaginary world:

  leitmotif

  operetta

  grand opera

  music drama

(a)  

Comic song in opera characterized by fast tempo with a rapid succession of rhythmic patterns that each have a syllable of text to be sung by the singer. The text is often filled with difficult, tongue-twisting lyrics that are very entertaining to listen to:

  tone poem

  patter song

  song cycle

  art song

(a)  

A style of singing that emphasizes the beauty of sound; specifically, an elegant Italian vocal style characterized by florid melodic lines delivered by voices of great agility, smoothness, and purity of tone:

  verismo

  patter song

  art song

  bel canto

(a)  

Compositions with extra-musical content that directs the attention of the listener to a literary or pictoral association:

  none of these

  incidental music

  absolute music

  program music

(a)  

Music that has no literary, dramatic, or pictorial program, is expressively self-sufficient and intelligible without the aid of a text or a program:

  absolute music

  incidental music

  program music

  all of these

(a)  

term meaning "realism", especially operas that have to do with unpleasant realities of life:

  operetta

  verismo

  grand opera

  melodrama

(a)  

A theatrical representation of a story by means of dances accompanied by music:

  ballet

  paired dances

  waltz

  dance suite

(a)  

A style of opera containing huge choruses, serious plots, elaborate dance episodes, ornate costumes, and spectacular scenery:

  grand opera

  music drama

  verismo

  operetta

(a)  

A group of songs that share a common theme or central idea and which have been designed to be presented as a cohesive unit:

  patter song

  art song

  stanza

  song cycle

(a)  

A composition, usually a serenade, to be played at night in the open air:

  interlude

  etude

  nocturne

  ayre

(a)  

A performance given by a soloist or a small ensemble:

  recital

  concert

  rubato

  rhapsody

(a)  

Involves the performer tastefully stretching, slowing, or hurrying the tempo as she/he sees fit, thus imparting flexibility and emotion to the performance:

  verismo

  risorgimento

  virtuoso

  rubato

(a)  

One who is extremely skilled at performing upon a certain instrument:

  child prodigy

  castrato

  verismo

  virtuoso

(a)  

Short, descriptive compositions usually for piano:

  nocturne

  character piece

  celesta

  incidental music

(a)  

A song of serious artistic purpose, usually performed by solo voice with piano accompaniment:

  art song

  patter song

  recital

  music drama

(a)  

Movement of Italian nationalism that culminated in the establishment of a unified Italy under one crown:

  intermezzo

  risorgimento

  verismo

  rubato

(a)  

Composer whose 'music dramas' radically changed opera & unusual harmonies lead to an eventual breakdown of 300 years of tonality:

  Giuseppe Verdi

  Georges Bizet

  Richard Wagner

  Gioachino Rossini

(a)  

The use of music to enhance the drama of a staged scene:

  music drama

  leitmotif

  melodrama

  bel canto

(a)  

Where did Wagner draw inspiration for his ‘Ring Cycle’?

  Greek & Roman mythology

  all of these

  Tolkien’s ‘Lord of the Rings’

  Norse & German mythology

(a)  

A successful, famous female opera singer:

  diva

  bel canto

  operetta

  divo

(a)  

The only one of the great composers to specialize in writing for only the piano:

  Robert Schumann

  Frédéric Chopin

  Franz Liszt

  Franz Schubert

(a)  

The first symphony by a female to be performed by a major orchestra was composed by:

  Amy Beach

  Fanny Mendelssohn

  Louise Farrenc

  Clara Schumann

(a)  

Italian virtuoso who so radically changed performance on the violin it spawned rumors he must have been trained by the devil:

  Niccolò Paganini

  Franz Liszt

  Frédéric Chopin

  Franz Schubert

(a)  

Considered the greatest songwriter of all time:

  Franz Liszt

  Robert Schumann

  Franz Schubert

  Richard Wagner

(a)  

Brilliant and demanding solo pieces written for virtuosic professionals:

  character pieces

  concert overtures

  concert etudes

  patter songs

(a)  

The embodiment of Romantic ideals who founded 'The New Journal for Music' to promote progressive music:

  Franz Schubert

  Robert Schumann

  Franz Liszt

  Richard Wagner

(a)  

A song that tells a story:

  song cycle

  character piece

  art song

  ballad

(a)  

Cultural development during the Romantic Era was largely centered in:

  New York

  Paris

  Vienna

  Moscow

 

(a)  

Philosophical movement centering on individual experience and the belief that the individual must assume ultimate responsibility for acts of free will:

  nationalism

  humanism

  existentialism

  transcendentalism

(a)  

The Twentieth Century is known as the:

  Age of Extremes

  Age of Consent

  Age of Progress

  Age of Excess

(a)  

Modernist rejection of tradition to experiment or push accepted boundaries:

  avant-garde

  conceptualism

  futurism

  dadaism

(a)  

Artistic movement originating in Italy expressing aspects of technology, industry, and objects of an modern society:

  dadaism

  modernism

  futurism

  conceptualism

(a)  

Artistic movement that rejected traditional aesthetics of beauty:

  impressionism

  conceptualism

  dadaism

  futurism

(a)  

A modernist belief that the idea behind the work is more important than the finished object itself:

  dadaism

  futurism

  expressionism

  conceptualism

(a)  

Subjective movement focused more on psychological truth and inner emotion rather than beauty and external reality:

  conceptualism

  dadaism

  impressionism

  expressionism

(a)  

Music organized without the traditional use of a central key which treats all chromatic pitches equally:

  avant-garde

  atonality

  modallity

  modernism

(a)  

The first African American to have one of his compositions performed by a major orchestra:

  Huddie 'Leadbelly' Ledbetter

  Charles 'Buddy' Bolden

  William Grant Still

  Edward 'Duke' Ellington

(a)  

The musician credited with beginning the 'blues' as we recognize it:

  Huddie 'Leadbelly' Ledbetter

  William Grant Still

  Edward 'Duke' Ellington

  Charles 'Buddy' Bolden

(a)  

The musician credited with establishing jazz as we recognize it:

  Huddie 'Leadbelly' Ledbetter

  William Grant Still

  Charles 'Buddy' Bolden

  Edward 'Duke' Ellington

(a)  

Generally considered to be the greatest American jazz composer ever:

  Charles 'Buddy' Bolden

  Huddie 'Leadbelly' Ledbetter

  Edward 'Duke' Ellington

  William Grant Still

(a)  

The Twentieth Century is an era of unprecedented:

  all of these

  change

  globalization

  revolt

(a)  

The technology to record sound was pioneered by Edison in:

  1914

  1920

  1877

  1945

(a)  

A concept used to justify freedom from the restraints of traditional harmony:

  emancipation of the dissonance

  conceptualism

  exoticism

  avant-garde

(a)  

The first radio broadcasts of music began when?

  1877

  1914

  1920

  1945

(a)  

The musician credited with creating the 12-tone compositional technique:

  William Grant Still

  Igor Stravinsky

  Richard Wagner

  Arnold Schoenberg

(a)  

The 'Big Bang' of country music happened in what year?

  1927

  1877

  1945

  1914

(a)  

A genre of music in which the rhythms, melodies, or instrumentation are designed to evoke the atmosphere of far-off lands or ancient times:

  ethnomusicology

  exoticism

  neoclassicism

  expressionism

(a)  

A branch of music study that involves the study of music of world cultures both of the past and of the present with an emphasis on cultural and racial influences and affects:

  ethnomusicology

  nationalism

  world music

  exoticism

(a)  

20th century compositions that imitate rhythms, melodies, techniques and character of non-western, tribal, or even prehistoric cultures:

  ethnomusicology

  aleatory music

  world music

  primitivism

(a)  

An effect comprised of a dissonant group of notes that are very close together:

  dodecaphonic

  polytonality

  tone cluster

  atonality

(a)  

A vocal style in which the melody is spoken at approximate pitches rather than sung on exact pitches:

  blues

  sprechstimme

  serialism

  recitative

(a)  

American form of folk music; based on a simple, repetitive, poetic-musical structure:

  blues

  ragtime

  swing

  jazz

(a)  

Spontaneous performance of music without previous preparation or any written notes:

  improvisation

  composition

  arranging

  transcribing

(a)  

Style of 1930's jazz characterized by "big band" instrumentation, greater emphasis on featured soloists, and a dance-like 'groove':

  ragtime

  bebop

  blues

  swing

(a)  

Music in which the composer introduces elements of chance or unpredictability with regard to either the composition or its performance:

  electronic music

  bebop

  aleatory music

  improvisation

(a)  

The use of two or more keys simultaneously:

  syncopation

  polyrhythmic

  polytonality

  atonality

(a)  

A term describing the 20th century practice of recording natural or artificial sounds and treating them electronically to produce music:

  bebop

  synthesizer

  theremin

  musique concréte

(a)  

Stage performances using popular music of the time to augment the story. It is similar to European operetta in that it contains spoken dialogue, a dramatic story line, ensembles, and dance:

  ethnomusicology

  exoticism

  music drama

  musical

(a)  

A short, lively, loud, militaristic composition usually written for brass instruments and timpani:

  march

  ragtime

  bebop

  fanfare

(a)  

Term applied to music of the late 20th century which reduced the range of compositional materials through hypnotic repetition and static harmony:

  minimalism

  electronic music

  primitivism

  microtones

(a)  

An interval smaller than the western half-step:

  microtone

  exoticism

  ethnomusicology

  minimalism

(a)  

Which of these is not a characteristic of postmodernist music?

  a liberation of 'sound'

  increased use of electronic media

  tonality and simplicity as a reaction against growing complexity

  declining use of the 12-tone method

 

(a)  

Direct use of material from another source:

  plagiarism

  mixed media

  quotation

  sound mass

(a)  

Postmodernist expansion of the 12-tone technique to include a fixed-ordering over all aspects of sound (frequency as well as duration, dynamics & timbre):

  serialism

  aleatory music

  mixed media

  extended techniques

(a)  

Artistic movement that unlike the name suggests, directly imitates music of any earlier eras:

  world music

  neo-romanticism

  musique concréte

  neoclassicism

(a)  

Compositional technique minimizing the importance of individual pitches in preference for texture, timbre, and dynamics to obscure the boundary between sound and noise:

  extended techniques

  sound mass

  mixed media

  aleatoric music

(a)  

A movement associated with music after World War II combining traditional and modern elements:

  postmodernism

  neo-romanticism

  neoclassicism

  minimalism

(a)  

Unconventional, unorthodox, or non-traditional methods employed to obtain unusual sounds on traditional instruments:

  sound mass

  avant-garde

  mixed media

  extended techniques

(a)  

The composer credited with establishing American nationalism:

  John Cage

  Leonard Bernstein

  Aaron Copland

  Henry Cowell

(a)  

Performances that not only include audio elements, but visual elements or any number of different simultaneously occurring art forms:

  sound mass

  aleatoric music

  world music

  mixed media

(a)