MUSIC 101 Romantic Period Exam

The course of Brahms's artistic and personal life was shaped by the influence of the composer - - In Vienna, Johannes Brahms - - In comparison to some earlier composers, Brahms's musical output may be considered small. This is explained in part by the fact that Brahms - - Music critics of the day pitted Brahms's fondness for traditional forms agains - - Brahms wrote masterpieces in many musical forms, but never any - - Brahms's works, though very personal in style, are rooted in the music of - - Brahms's musical trademarks included - - The original score for the theme of the fourth movement of Brahms's "Fourth Symphony" was a - - The fourth movement of Brahms's "Fourth Symphony" is a _______________, a baroque variation form - - Verdi studied music in ______________, the city of Italy's most important opera house, La Scala, is located - - Verdi's first great success, an opera with strong political overtones, was - - Critics were often scandalized by the subject matter of Verdi's operas because they - - Verdi's great comic masterpieces, written when he was seventy-nine, is - - The librettist Giuseppe Verid's operas "Otello" and "Falstaff" was - - Verdi's opera commissioned to commemorate the completion of the Suez canal is - - Giuseppe Verdi mainly composed his operas - - The soul of a Verdi opera is - - Verdi's later operas differ from his earlier ones in that they have - - The famous aria "La donna e mobile" is taken from Verdi's opera - - Music 101 Music 101 Music 101 Giacomo Puccini's first successful opera was - - Giacomo Puccini, in his operas - - An artistic trend of the 1890's, in which operas dealt with ordinary people and true-to-life situations, was known as - - The movement in opera known as "verismo" is best exemplified by - - Some of Puccini's operas feature exoticism, as in his use of melodic and rhythmic elements derived from Japanese and Chinese music in his operas - - In Puccini's "La Boheme", Rodolfo is a young - - Wagner's pre-eminence was such that an opera house of his own design was built in _______________, solely for performances of his music dramas - - Wagner envisioned the music drama as a "Gesamtkunstwerk", or "universal art work", in which - - The composer who had an overwhelming influence on the young Wagner was - - Richard Wagner's first successful opera was - - Richard Wagner's last opera was - - Wagner called his works "music dramas" rather than operas because - - A short musical idea associated with a person, object, or thought, used by Richard Wagner in his operas, is called - - Instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene, popular during the Romantic period is called - - Non-program music is also known as _________________ music - - A ________________ is a one-movement orchestral composition based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea. - - The composer who developed the symphonic poem was - - Music intended to be performed before and during a play to set the mood for scenes or highlight dramatic action is known as - - Today's movie scores may be regarded as examples of - - Music 101 Music 101 In 1830 the Paris Conservatory awarded Berlioz - - The writer whose works had the greatest impact on the young Berlioz was - - The "Fantastic Symphony" reflects Berlioz's - - Parisians were startled by Berlioz's "Fantastic Symphony" because of its - - In order to support his family, Berlioz turned to - - Outside France, Berlioz enjoyed a great career as a(n) - - As one of the first great ________________, Be