Bel Canto

Verismo Opera

Nationalism

Nationalism

Art songs/Lieder

Woman Composer

Program Music

Absolute music

Ballet

Piano virtuoso

Art songs/Lieder

Bel Canto Opera

Bel Canto opera was famous in

Dvorak immigrated to which country?

The Mighty Five (handful) is from

Chopin grew up in

Bayreuth is part of

Wrote a symphony for 1000 performers

When was Frederic Chopin born?

Where did Frederic Chopin spend the first half of his life?

What was the likely cause of Frederic Chopin's death?

At what age did Frederic Chopin join the Warsaw Music Conservatory?

Who gave high praise to Frederic Chopin's performance in 1831?

What did George Sand, Chopin's lover, wear that was considered unconventional for women at the time?

What did Chopin ask Franz Liszt to do regarding one of his compositions?

In which year did the November uprising occur in Poland?

What did Chopin's final report card from the conservatory in 1829 say about him?

What did Chopin plan to do with his physical heart after his death?

Where was Franz Liszt born?

What was the profession of Franz Liszt's father?

At what age did Franz Liszt start learning the piano?

Which language could Franz Liszt not speak despite being born in Hungary?

Who was Franz Liszt's piano teacher in Vienna?

In which city was Franz Liszt known as 'Little Liszt'?

What was the style of Franz Liszt's early compositions influenced by?

What did Franz Liszt want to become before pursuing a career in music?

What event led to Franz Liszt writing a funeral march?

At what age did Franz Liszt's father pass away?

This composer’s most famous operas today are The Barber of Seville and William Tell.

The Italian term for “beautiful singing” is:

The terms “prima donna” and “diva” both refer to the heroine of the opera and are thus interchangeable.

What is meant by the Italian term “Risorgimento”?

Which style of opera did Verdi compose?

During his lifetime, he was the most popular opera composer in Europe and even today his operas are performed more than those by any other composer.

Becoming wealthy in his later years, this composer retired to his country estate, only writing operas when the subject was personally interesting or the monetary remuneration was of staggering proportions. He based his final two operas on Shakespearean dramas; when he died he was a respected national institution.

Identify the correct answer for “recitativo accompagnato.”

Which two characters have the leading roles in Verdi’s opera La traviata?

What is a lied?

I didn't write Italian Opera

I wasn't a piano virtuoso

I didn't live in France

I am not part of the Mighty Handful

I came to America

I enjoyed writing opera about mythology

My Symphony was fantastique

The recitative in my opera is accompagnato

I like the Idee Fixe so much that I use Leitmotifs in my opera

I am not programatic

My opera is verismo

My total art work is a gesamkunstwerk

The New World Symphony's famous 2nd movement featured this instrument

I wrote the Barber of Seville (which is a prequel to The Marriage of Figaro)

The Romantic Era was from

I wrote La Traviata!

I wrote Tristan and Isolde

I wrote ballet, which means not having to develop themes!

The piano had to be physically revolutionized to fit my abilities

I wrote lieder and music criticism

I wrote the Erlkonig

I was Polish, though my name is not

I had a patroness (as long as we didn't meet)

What is the typical subject matter of realistic opera?

Realistic operas generally have a happy ending.

This composer spent his short life entirely in Paris. The premiere of his masterpiece was a flop because Parisian audiences thought the subject matter too degrading, though now it is considered the world’s most popular opera.

Which realistic opera is set in Spain, but sung in French?

Identify the frustrated lover, and ultimately murderer, of Carmen.

Which statement regarding the Habanera is wrong?

What is the term for the Italian form of realistic opera?

He achieved his first triumph at the age of thirty-five with Manon Lescaut; further successes followed in rapid succession, but after he became famous and wealthy, he grew a bit complacent, composing less frequently and his last opera was left unfinished at his death from throat cancer.

Which opera is an example of verismo?

This composer created an operatic tradition that was distinct to Germany, and he exerted enormous influence on the musical style of other composers during the end of the nineteenth century.

Exiled from Germany and its opera houses, he lived in Switzerland for twelve years, where he began work on his massive Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung). Publishers were initially reluctant to support the Ring cycle, so he interrupted work on it to compose more manageable dramas such as Tristan und Isolde (1865) and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, 1868).

The Bayreuth Festival features works by this composer:

Which term did Wagner use to describe compositions for the stage?

This term, literally meaning “total art work,” describes the unification of all the arts (poetry, music, acting, set design, etc.) for a single dramatic purpose.

This operatic term describes a melodic gesture associated with a person, object, or idea.

Which character sings the Liebestod?

Which statement is not a facet of program music?

Which genre of composition consists of three, four, or five movements that together tell or depict a succession of specific events drawn from some extra-musical work or story?

Which composition is an example of the program symphony?

Which genre typically precedes an opera or a play and consists of a single movement that encapsulates the essence of the drama?

Identify the genre of program music that consists of a single movement that gives expression to the emotions and events associated with a story, play, political event, or personal experience.

Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet, Musorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain, and Strauss’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra are all examples of the:

Which instrument is a low-sounding oboe?

Which brass instrument is similar in sound and shape to the trumpet?

The idée fixe is associated with what object or idea?

Which composition features the celesta?

What was the typical size of the late nineteenth-century orchestra?

As a boy, he studied the music of Bach, Haydn, and Beethoven, and in order to use good instruments, he practiced daily in the showrooms of local piano stores. He earned money at night by playing on out-of-tune pianos in “stimulation bars.” Although his formal education never went past primary school, he was awarded honorary degrees from Cambridge University (1876) and Breslau University (1879).

This composer first came to the public’s attention in 1853, when Robert Schumann wrote an article praising him as heir to the tradition of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. After Robert was confined to a mental institution, he became Clara Schumann’s confidant, yet while this friendship and respect deepened into love, their relationship did not result in marriage.

What is the term for instrumental music that is free of a text or any preexisting program?

Which composition is an example of absolute music?

Which composer brought the orchestral Lied to maturity?

He began his career as an orchestral conductor in provincial towns, but gradually worked into larger and more important musical centers, eventually leading the Vienna Court Opera and the Vienna Philharmonic for ten tumultuous concert seasons.

He left Vienna to conduct the Metropolitan Opera and the New York Philharmonic, but after doctors diagnosed a heart condition, he returned to Vienna in 1911, where he died of heart failure.