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Match each composition with its composer. Then check your responses with the Answer Key.
| a. Hector Berlioz | 1. Fantastic Symphony |
| b. Johannes Brahms | 2. Rigoletto |
| c. Frederic Chopin | 3. Madame Butterfly |
| d. Franz Liszt | 4. Swan Lake |
| e. Felix Mendelssohn | 5. La Boheme |
| f. Modest Mussorgsky | 6. The Ring of the Nibelung |
| g. Giacomo Puccini | 7. The Erlking |
| h. Franz Schubert | 8. Romeo and Juliet Overture |
| i. Clara Schumann | 9. Romeo and Juliet Symphony |
| j. Robert Schumann | 10. Carnaval (Carnival) |
| k. Bedrich Smetana | 11. The Moldau |
| l. Peter Tchaikovsky | 12. German Requiem |
| m. Giuseppe Verdi | 13. The Sleeping Beauty |
| n. Richard Wagner | 14. Romance in G Minor for Violin and Piano |
| 15. Boris Godunov | |
| 16. Transcendental Etude No. 10 | |
| 17. Die Walkure | |
| 18. Etude in C Minor (Revolutionary) | |
| 19. A Midsummer Night's Dream | |
| 20. The Nutcracker |
Multiple-choice: Choose the answer that best completes each item.
21. Instrumental music endowed with literary or pictorial associations, popular during the romantic period, is called
a. absolute music
b. opera
c. program music
d. symphony
22. The deliberate intent to draw creative inspiration from the composer's own homeland is known as
a. exoticism
b. nationalism
c. verismo
d. individualism
23. The typical orchestra of the late romantic period numbered about ________musicians.
a. 15
b. 24
c. 40
d. 100
24. Music intended to be performed before or during a play, to set the mood for scenes or highlight dramatic action, is known as
a. play music
b. incidental music
c. absolute music
d. music drama
25. Instrumental music which is written for its own sake, and for which the composer does not provide a program, is called
a. absolute music
b. program music
c. music for its own sake
d. opera
26. Drawing creative inspiration from cultures of lands foreign to the composer is known as
a. exoticism
b. nationalism
c. program music
d. verismo
27. Approximately, the romantic period encompassed the years
a. 1450-1600
b. 1600-1750
c. 1750-1820
d. 1820-1900
28. All the following composers are associated with the romantic period except
a. Giuseppe Verdi
b. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
c. Robert Schumann
d. Frederic Chopin
29. Which of the following is not a characteristic of romanticism?
a. nationalism
b. emotional restraint
c. individualism
d. supernaturalism
30. The movement in opera known as verismo is best exemplified by
a. Claudio Monteverdi
b. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
c. Giacomo Puccini
d. Richard Wagner
Matching: Match each term with its definition:
| a. etude | 31. song form in which new music is written for each stanza |
| b. leitmotif | 32. study piece, designed to help a performer master specific technical difficulties |
| c. lied | 33. song form in which the music is repeated for each stanza |
| d. nocturne | 34. short musical idea associated with a person, object, or thought, used by Wagner |
| e. polonaise | 35. romantic art song with a German text |
| f. program symphony | 36. slow, intimate composition for piano, associated with night time |
| g. rubato | 37. instrumental composition in several movements based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea |
| h. strophic | 38. dance in triple meter that originated as a stately procession for the Polish nobility |
| i. symphonic poem | 39. one-movement orchestral composition based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea |
| j. through-composed | 40. slight holding back or pressing forward of tempo |
1-a; 2-m; 3-g; 4-l; 5-g; 6-n; 7-h; 8-l; 9-a; 10-j; 11-k; 12-b; 13-l; 14-i; 15-f; 16-d; 17-n; 18-c; 19-e; 20-l; 21-c; 22-b; 23-d; 24-b; 25-a; 26-a; 27-d; 28-b; 29-b; 30-c; 31-j; 32-a; 33-h; 34-b; 35-c; 36-d; 37-f; 38-e; 39-i; 40-g.