MUSC 1010 Final Exam questions well
answered graded A+ 2025/2026
Chapter 16 - correct answer ✔✔
What are the themes of "Romanticism" that are central to both Romantic literature and
Romantic music? - correct answer ✔✔The Cult of Individual Feeling, Romanticism, and Revolt,
Artistic Barriers, Music and the Supernatural, Shakespeare
What was concert life like by the 19th century? P. 219 - correct answer ✔✔Concert hall
together with the opera house came to dominate the presentation of music
Were halls built to accommodate symphony concerts an expression of civic pride? 219 - correct
answer ✔✔yes
What are the style features of Romantic music? 220 - correct answer ✔✔Melodic lines ranged
more widely, melodies became more irregular in rhythm and phrase structure
what happens to tone color in the Romantic period? - correct answer ✔✔Viennese Classical
composers treated tone color with considerable subtlety
What happens to form in the Romantic period? - correct answer ✔✔Orchestras were expanded
and reached the present standard makeup
What is "Program Music"? - correct answer ✔✔Instrumental music written and associated with
a poem or a story
,What is the principle of thematic unity? - correct answer ✔✔The general principle developed by
Romantic composers was that of thematic unity.
chapter 17 - correct answer ✔✔
What is a Lied? - correct answer ✔✔A German song, a special genre of Romantic songs with a
piano
What composer is well-known for composing Lieder? - correct answer ✔✔Franz Schuber, wrote
close to 700 songs
Be able to identify Erlkonig by listening to it. What is the story about? - correct answer ✔✔A
father rides furiously through the night with a child who is presumably running a high fever, for
he claims to see and hear a malevolent demon. The Erlking first beckons the child, then cajoles
him, then threatens and assaults him. The father—uncomprehending, even impatient—tries to
quiet the boy, but by the time they reach home, the boy is dead.
What is a song cycle? - correct answer ✔✔group of songs associated with a common poetic
theme or an actual story
Know about Franz Schubert - correct answer ✔✔was a schoolteacher but gave up to devote to
music
part of Schubertians- young artists, writers, musicians and music lovers
his great symphonies, sonatas, and chamber music were overshadowed
What did Schubert compose? - correct answer ✔✔song cycles: Die schöne Müllerin,
Winterreise, and Schwanengesang
leaders: "The Erlking," "Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel," "Hedgerose," "Death and the
Maiden," "The Trout
, symphonies: the Unfinished—Schubert completed only two movements and sketches for a
scherzo—and the Great Symphony in C Major
Know About Robert Schumann - correct answer ✔✔started studying piano at age 6
started the career as piano virtuoso, had to give it up after injuring his fingers
great flair for literature
founded a magazine at 23 called Die Neue Zeitschrift für Musik
Schumann's piano works "character pieces," often with imaginative titles, arranged in loosely
organized sets, with titles such as Butterflies, Scenes from Childhood, and Carnaval.
turned to larger works: concertos, symphonies, chamber music, choral music, and one opera
What did Schumann compose? - correct answer ✔✔miniatures for piano: Scenes from
Childhood, Album for the Young, Papillons (Butterflies), and Carnaval
lieder and song cycles: woman's life and love, dichterliebe
Piano Fantasy (a free sonata); Piano Concerto and a concerto for cello; four symphonies
An opera, Genoveva; incidental music to Byron's Manfred and Goethe's Faust; choral works
Define Modified Strophic form. - correct answer ✔✔modest changes are introduced in the
successive stanzas of a strophic form
A A A'
Who is Clara Wieck Schumann? - correct answer ✔✔widely known as a prodigy
married Robert Schumann, she established herself as one of Europe's leading pianists
became a major force in late 19th-century music
What instrument did she play? What did she compose? - correct answer ✔✔piano, miniatures
for piano: Romances and Soirées musicales (Musical Evenings); songs
piano concerto and trio for piano, violin, and cello
answered graded A+ 2025/2026
Chapter 16 - correct answer ✔✔
What are the themes of "Romanticism" that are central to both Romantic literature and
Romantic music? - correct answer ✔✔The Cult of Individual Feeling, Romanticism, and Revolt,
Artistic Barriers, Music and the Supernatural, Shakespeare
What was concert life like by the 19th century? P. 219 - correct answer ✔✔Concert hall
together with the opera house came to dominate the presentation of music
Were halls built to accommodate symphony concerts an expression of civic pride? 219 - correct
answer ✔✔yes
What are the style features of Romantic music? 220 - correct answer ✔✔Melodic lines ranged
more widely, melodies became more irregular in rhythm and phrase structure
what happens to tone color in the Romantic period? - correct answer ✔✔Viennese Classical
composers treated tone color with considerable subtlety
What happens to form in the Romantic period? - correct answer ✔✔Orchestras were expanded
and reached the present standard makeup
What is "Program Music"? - correct answer ✔✔Instrumental music written and associated with
a poem or a story
,What is the principle of thematic unity? - correct answer ✔✔The general principle developed by
Romantic composers was that of thematic unity.
chapter 17 - correct answer ✔✔
What is a Lied? - correct answer ✔✔A German song, a special genre of Romantic songs with a
piano
What composer is well-known for composing Lieder? - correct answer ✔✔Franz Schuber, wrote
close to 700 songs
Be able to identify Erlkonig by listening to it. What is the story about? - correct answer ✔✔A
father rides furiously through the night with a child who is presumably running a high fever, for
he claims to see and hear a malevolent demon. The Erlking first beckons the child, then cajoles
him, then threatens and assaults him. The father—uncomprehending, even impatient—tries to
quiet the boy, but by the time they reach home, the boy is dead.
What is a song cycle? - correct answer ✔✔group of songs associated with a common poetic
theme or an actual story
Know about Franz Schubert - correct answer ✔✔was a schoolteacher but gave up to devote to
music
part of Schubertians- young artists, writers, musicians and music lovers
his great symphonies, sonatas, and chamber music were overshadowed
What did Schubert compose? - correct answer ✔✔song cycles: Die schöne Müllerin,
Winterreise, and Schwanengesang
leaders: "The Erlking," "Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel," "Hedgerose," "Death and the
Maiden," "The Trout
, symphonies: the Unfinished—Schubert completed only two movements and sketches for a
scherzo—and the Great Symphony in C Major
Know About Robert Schumann - correct answer ✔✔started studying piano at age 6
started the career as piano virtuoso, had to give it up after injuring his fingers
great flair for literature
founded a magazine at 23 called Die Neue Zeitschrift für Musik
Schumann's piano works "character pieces," often with imaginative titles, arranged in loosely
organized sets, with titles such as Butterflies, Scenes from Childhood, and Carnaval.
turned to larger works: concertos, symphonies, chamber music, choral music, and one opera
What did Schumann compose? - correct answer ✔✔miniatures for piano: Scenes from
Childhood, Album for the Young, Papillons (Butterflies), and Carnaval
lieder and song cycles: woman's life and love, dichterliebe
Piano Fantasy (a free sonata); Piano Concerto and a concerto for cello; four symphonies
An opera, Genoveva; incidental music to Byron's Manfred and Goethe's Faust; choral works
Define Modified Strophic form. - correct answer ✔✔modest changes are introduced in the
successive stanzas of a strophic form
A A A'
Who is Clara Wieck Schumann? - correct answer ✔✔widely known as a prodigy
married Robert Schumann, she established herself as one of Europe's leading pianists
became a major force in late 19th-century music
What instrument did she play? What did she compose? - correct answer ✔✔piano, miniatures
for piano: Romances and Soirées musicales (Musical Evenings); songs
piano concerto and trio for piano, violin, and cello
