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Romantic Orchestral Music

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1. All of the following are characteristics of Romanticism except:

remoteness and boundlessness
fascination with the supernatural
a sense of order and symmetry
an interest in medieval myth

2. A romance in the literary sense is

a medieval tale about heroes written in a language descended from Latin
a Nordic myth about water spirits
a story of unfulfilled love
none of the above

3. Such Romantic composers as Schubert, Berlioz, and Brahms were most influenced in their symphonic writing by:

Haydn
Mozart
Stamitz
Beethoven

4. The Beethoven Symphony that seems most like a Romantic program symphony is

the Eroica
the Choral
the Pastoral
the Fifth

5. Berlioz Symphonie fantastique contains all of the following except:

the use of an evolving music motive throughout
a slow movement that evokes a pastoral scene
a quotation of the Dies Irae
four movements

6. The most "classical" of Romantic symphony composers is:

Schumann
Brahms
Schubert
Mendelssohn

7. Schubert wrote his Unfinished Symphony after Beethoven wrote his Ninth Symphony

False
True

8. Schubert's Unfinished Symphony contains a famous tune in G major that functions as its second theme. It is played by the

piccolo
trumpet
cello
trombone

9. Schubert's Great C Major Symphony is know for:

its "heavenly length"
passage with two horns
pianissimo trombones
all of the above

10. All of the following are images from Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony except:

sunny landscape
slow procession of pilgrims
peasants dancing the saltarello
quotation of Victimae paschali laudes

11. What Lutheran hymn does Mendelssohn quote in the Reformation Symphony?

Ein feste Burg
Christ lag in Todesbanden
Wie schoen leuchtet der Morgenstern
Danket dem Herrn

12. The four movements of Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony are played without pause

True
False

13. Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony uses all of the following techniques except:

imitations of bagpipes
pentatonic scales
quotation of the Scottish folk tune Annie Laurie
the rhythmic figure known as the Scottish snap

14. The Mendelssohn Violin Concerto states the main theme at the beginning without having it introduced first by the orchestra but its cadenza comes after the recapitulation as usual

True
False

15. Berlioz's Harold in Italy features the

violin
viola
flute
oboe

16. Berlioz's Romeo and Juliet is in seven movements, uses chorus, and resembles an unstaged opera.

True
False

17. Schumann's "symphony year" was:

1839
1840
1841
1842

18. All of the following are are characteristics of Liszt's symphonic poems except:

they were relatively short
the contains sections in varying tempi and character
the sometimes reflected literary ideas
the were in four movements

19. In the last half of the 19th century Brahms was considered to be:

conservative
radical

20. Brahms, like many late Romantic composers, exploits the major third relationship and shifts between parallel majors and minors.

True
False

21. The final movement of Brahms Fourth Symphony is a:

rondo
sonata allegro
passacaglia
gavotte

22. Tchaikovsky was considered by his contemporaries to be

cosmopolitan in approach
an ultra nationalist

23. In Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony the scherzo is replaced by a

minuet
waltz
rondo
none of the above

24. All of the following are characteristic of Dvorak's New World Symphony except:

the use of pentatonic scales
reference to New World folk music
all four movements placed without pause
use of a famous English horn solo