Exam III MCQs for Music Appreciation | MUS 1751, Exams of Music

Download Exam III MCQs for Music Appreciation | MUS 1751 and more Exams Music in PDF only on Docsity! Exam 3 MUS 1751 Bubble in your name on scan tron. Write your name on the front. Last name first please!!!! Then write your name on the exam paper. Please fill out the answers on both documents. 1. Music without extra musical or programmatic references a. Program music b. Absolute music c. Art Music 2. Berlioz represents the idea of the “Beloved” by using a. idée fixe b. diminution c. leitmotif 3. Robert Schumann went to school to become a a. Musician b. doctor c. Lawyer 4. Franz Liszt was a famous virtuoso who played which instrument? a. violin b. guitar c. piano 5. A composer famous for writing short pieces called “Nocturnes” for the solo piano a. Chopin b. Liszt c. C. Schumann 6. In Beethoven’s 5th Symphony he used a Scherzo for the form of which movement? a. 4th b. 3rd c. 1st 7. The singer in Schubert’s Erlking has to use his voice to: a. express four different characters b. imitate birds c. to be heard in the back of the concert hall. 8. A melodic fragment used to build melodies and themes, as in the first four notes of Beethoven’s 5 th, is called: a) a riff b) a motive c) a germ cell 9. Which of the following was so good at playing the violin that people thought he was from the devil. a. Liszt b. Chopin c. Paganini 10. This composer established the format for the modern-day piano recital. a. Liszt b. Chopin c. Verdi 11 Widely regarded as Germany’s leading opera composer: a) Schubert b) Wagner c) Brahms 12. A leitmotif is a. a signature tune b. rubato c. double counterpoint 13. A Romantic period composer who did a great deal to promote other composers of the time by publishing the “New Journal of Music” a. Brahms b. R. Schumann c. Berlioz 14. A is a virtuosic instrumental piece that also serves as a technique exercise. a) nocturne b) lied c) concert etude 15. The composer who is considered to be the iconic image of “the musician as artist.” a. Liszt b. Mozart c. Beethoven 16. The real life person that was the inspiration for Symphonie Fantastique a. George Sand b. Aurore Dudevent c. Harriet Smithson 17. The Romantics considered life, and how they lived it, to be a. drama b. art c. opera 18. A composer who stopped composing because she felt it was not right for a woman to compose. a. R. Schumann b. C. Schumann c. Harriet Smithson 19. This composer fell in love with his piano teacher’s daughter. a. Chopin b. Beethoven c. R. Schumann 20. Composer referred to as the “Poet of the Piano” a. Beethoven b. Liszt c. Chopin 21. Who is considered Beethoven’s symphonic successor? a. Brahms b. R. Schumann c. Berlioz 22. The Concert Overture, the Symphonic Poem and Program Symphony are all examples of: a. piano pieces b. program music c. absolute music 23. Symphonie Fantastique by Berlioz has how many movements? a. four b. none c. five 24. Which of the follow was not a famous piano virtuoso. a. Liszt b. Chopin c. Paganini 25. In the Romantic period, in which city would you have been able to attend a Schubertiad? a. London b. Vienna c. Paris 26. Instrumental music’s literary and programmatic associations began to be more important in the _________________. a) Baroque era b) Classical era c) Romantic era 27. In Beethoven’s fifth symphony, what is unusual about the 3rd and 4th movements? a. nothing b. They are connected c. There is a haunting oboe solo 28. The Romantic period is characterized by the importance of which instrument? a. violin b. organ c. piano 29. The word Nocturne means: a. a special court dance b. For solo piano c. Night Music 30. Who is considered Beethoven’s symphonic successor? a. Brahms b. R. Schumann c. Berlioz 31 In Beethoven’s Pathetique Sonata he brings back the material from the slow introduction in both the development and the a) Coda b) Exposition c) recapitulation 32. “ La Traviata” is an example of: a. A German Music Drama b. Lied c. Bel canto opera 33. A Romantic period composer of Absolute Music. a. Brahms b. Liszt c. Berlioz.