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Music after 1870: Part 1

You can answer the questions in any order. This script will give you a hint if you are wrong.

1. Hugo Wolf (1860-1903) is best known for his :

songs
opera
chamber music
symphonies

2. Wolf was strongly influenced by Wagner:

True
False

3. All of the following were strongly influenced by Wagner except

Strauss
Tchaikovsky
Wolf
Mahler

4. Mahler's chief occupation was as a:

composer
conductor
violinist
singer

5. All of the following statements about Mahler symphonies are true except:

His orchestras are very large and contain a wide variety of instruments.
Some of his symphonies contain choral parts.
Some of his symphonies are somewhat programmatic.
His style is strongly influenced by Richard Strauss.

6. Mahler's symphonies are traditional in that they begin and end in the same key.

True
False

7. Mahler's work for solo voices and orchestra that sets translations of Chinese poems is:

Das Lied von der Erde
Kindertotenlieder
Das Knaben Wunderhorn
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen

8. Richard Strauss is known for all of the following except:

opera
tone poems
lieder
symphonies

9. Tone poems usually fall into two categories. They are either generally philosophical or descriptive. All of the following have a specific descriptive program except:

Also sprach Zarathustra
Ein Heldenleben
Don Juan
Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks

10. Till Eulenspiegel is a kind of rondo and Don Quixote is a type of theme and variations.

True
False

11. Which of the following Strauss operas is reminiscent of the operas of Mozart?

Salome
Elektra
Der Rosenkavalier

12. The 19th century saw a dramatic rise in nationalism in music. It was caused by all of the following except:

a desire to compete with the Austro-German tradition
a renewed interest in native folk song
a turning away from the Classic symphony and concerto
an obsession with order and symmetry

13. The father of the nationalist movement in Russia and the composer of A Life for the Tsar is:

Rimsky-Korsakov
Balakirev
Glinka
Tchaikovsky

14. The literary figure whose stories were used in operas by Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky is:

Tolstoy
Turgenev
Chekov
Pushkin

15. All of the members of the Mighty Five were trained either at the Moscow Conservatory or the St. Petersburg Conservatory.

True
False

16. All of the following were characteristic of the music of Mussorgsky except:

his operas used stories from history
chorus scenes were important
love interest drove the plot
basses are prominently featured

17. Folksongs inspired some of the melodies in Boris Godunov.

True
False

18. Boris Godunov could be characterized as what kind of opera?

opera seria
realist opera
fantasy opera
verismo opera

19. Rimsky-Korsakov was famous for his programmatic writing. All of the following are examples except:

Capriccio espagnol
Sheherazade
Russian Easter Overture
Night on Bald Mountain

20. The Mystic Chord is associated with which Russian composer:

Rachmaninoff
Glazunov
Kabalevsky
Skryabin

21. All of the following were important Czech nationalist composers except:

Bartok
Smetana
Janacek
Dvorak

22. Glinka is to Russia as___________is to Spain:

Albeniz
Falla
Pedrell
Granados