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Romantic Orchestral Music
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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
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.
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.
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