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Which of the following statements is not true?
A. The "emancipation of the dissonance" does not prevent composers from differentiating between chords of greater or lesser tension.
B. By the early twentieth century, the traditional distinction between consonance and dissonance was abandoned in much music.
C. The general principle that determines whether a chord is stable or not remains the same in the twentieth century as it did in the nineteenth.
D. Up to about 1900, all chords except the three-tone triad were considered dissonant.
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In music, the early twentieth century was a time of ______.
A. revolt and change
B. the continuation of old forms
C. stagnation
D. disinterest
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Which of the following is not true about Inura? A. It was composed by Astor Piazzolla. B. The vocal text is in the language of Yoruba/Brazilian Portuguese. C. It was composed in 2009 for DanceBrazil. D. It is written for mixed chorus, strings, and percussion.
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Which of the following is not a movement in City Scape? A. Short Ride in a Fast Machine B. SkyLine C. river sings a song to trees D. Peachtree Street
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In the words of the composer, City Scape is a metropolitan sound picture written in orchestral tones that was inspired by the city of ______. A. Atlanta B. Philadelphia C. Kansas City D. Orlando
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Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer) is a ______. A. song cycle B. programmatic symphony C. set of piano pieces D. dramatic opera
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Mahler's experiences in New York were not happy because _______.
A. he aroused the dislike of many of his players
B. he was unable to get along with the socialites who supported the New York Philharmonic orchestra
C. his own works were received coolly
D. All answers are correct.
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The major portion of Mahler's creative output consists of ______.
A. symphonies
B. operas
C. concertos
D. chamber music
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By the age of twenty-eight, Mahler was director of the ______. A. Vienna Opera B. Budapest Opera C. Vienna Conservatory D. New York Philharmonic
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By supervising every aspect of its performances, Mahler brought the ____________ to new heights of excellence. A. Vienna Opera B. Vienna Conservatory C. Vienna Ballet D. Budapest Philharmonic
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Mahler began his professional musical life as a ______. A. concert pianist in Budapest B. conductor of musical comedies C. director of the Vienna Opera D. director of a military band
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While Wagner's Ring cycle features fantastical elements such as gods, giants, and magic, the opera is really about ______. A. the Renaissance B. nineteenth-century society and culture C. his family lineage D. the colonization of Africa
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What happens at the end of the first act of Wagner's opera Die Walkre?
A. Sieglinde recognizes the stranger as her brother and renames him Siegmund.
B. Siegmund draws the magical sword Notung from the tree.
C. Siegmund embraces Sieglinde with passionate fervor.
D. All answers are correct.
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Siegmund, in Wagner's opera Die Walkre, is ______.
A. Sieglinde's brother, then wife
B. Wotan's son by a mortal woman
C. Siegfried's father
D. All answers are correct.
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Valhalla, in Wagner's Ring cycle, is ______. A. a city in New York State B. Wotan's castle C. the home of Siegfried D. the magic ring
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The orchestration in Wagner's operas is _______. A. light and simple B. full and colorful C. subservient to the singers D. limited to only the string section
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A short musical idea associated with a person, object, or thought, used by Richard Wagner in his operas, is called ______.
A. leitmotif
B. lied
C. unending melody
D. speech-song
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Richard Wagner's last opera was ______.
A. Die Gtterdmmerung
B. Tannhuser
C. Rienzi
D. Parsifal
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The librettos to The Ring of the Nibelung were written by ______. A. Arrigo Boito B. Richard Wagner C. King Ludwig of Bavaria D. Hans von Blow
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Which of the following operas was not composed by Richard Wagner? A. Die Meistersinger von Nrnberg B. Tristan and Isolde C. Fidelio D. Parsifal
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During Wagner's time in Paris, what did he do? A. Conducted the famous premiere of his opera, Rienzi B. Was unable to get an opera performed and was reduced to musical hackwork C. Finished his masterpiece, Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung) D. Built an opera house according to his specifications
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Wagner was appointed conductor of the Dresden opera mainly because of the success of his first opera ______.
A. The Ring of the Nibelung
B. Die Gtterdmmerung
C. Parsifal
D. Rienzi
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171. Which of the following statements is not true? A. As a young man, Wagner spent many years studying music theory and developing a virtuosic piano technique. B. During the last decades of the nineteenth century, Wagner's operas and artistic philosophy influenced not only musicians, but poets, painters, and playwrights as well. C. Wagner revolutionized opera by shifting the focus from the voice to the orchestra and treating the orchestra symphonically. D. Wagner used leitmotifs, or short musical ideas associated with a person, object, or thought, to unify his greatly extended music dramas.
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Wagner was a virtuoso on the ______.
A. piano
B. violin
C. clarinet
D. None of these are correct.
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The composer who had an overwhelming influence on the young Wagner was ______. A. Johann Sebastian Bach B. Ludwig van Beethoven C. Johannes Brahms D. Hector Berlioz
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______ was a fanatical supporter of Wagner and helped rescue his career in the 1860s.
A. Franz Liszt
B. Napoleon III
C. Czar Alexander II
D. King Ludwig of Bavaria
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Wagner's preeminence was such that an opera house of his own design was built in _________________, solely for performances of his music dramas.
A. Paris, France
B. Geneva, Switzerland
C. Leipzig, Germany
D. Bayreuth, Germany
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Who sings the aria Che gelida manina (How cold your little hand is) in La Bohme? A. Mimi B. Schaunard C. Rodolfo D. Marcello
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Mimi and Rodolfo meet for the first time in La Bohme because she has come to his door to ask for a ______. A. light for her candle B. drink of wine C. dinner date D. cup of sugar
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In Puccini's La Bohme, Rodolfo is a young ______. A. painter B. poet C. philosopher D. musician
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Giacomo Puccini, in his operas, ______.
A. achieved unity and continuity by using the same material in different acts
B. used the orchestra to reinforce the vocal melody and to suggest mood
C. composed melodies that have short memorable phrases and are intensely emotional
D. All answers are correct.
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Giacomo Puccini's opera La Bohme takes place in ______.
A. Seville
B. Milan
C. Rome
D. Paris
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Some of Puccini's operas feature exoticism, as in his use of melodic and rhythmic elements derived from Japanese and Chinese music in his operas ______. A. Turandot and Manon Lescaut B. La Bohme and Madame Butterfly C. Madame Butterfly and Turandot D. Tosca and Turandot
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The movement in opera known as verismo is best exemplified by ______. A. Claudio Monteverdi B. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart C. Giacomo Puccini D. Richard Wagner
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An artistic trend of the 1890s, in which operas dealt with ordinary people and true-to-life situations, was known as ______. A. opera seria B. verismo C. exoticism D. Cavalleria rusticana
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Which of the following operas was not composed by Giacomo Puccini?
A. Madame Butterfly
B. Tosca
C. Turandot
D. Falstaff
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Giacomo Puccini's first successful opera was ______. A. Madame Butterfly B. La Bohme C. Manon Lescaut D. Turandot
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The famous aria La donna mobile is taken from Verdi's opera ______. A. Rigoletto B. Ada C. Falstaff D. Il Trovatore
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Rigoletto, the title role in Giuseppe Verdi's opera, is all of the following except ______.
A. a hunchback
B. a court jester to the Duke of Mantua
C. the father of Gilda
D. the romantic lover
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Verdi's later operas differ from his earlier ones in that they have ______.
A. less difference between aria and recitative
B. greater musical continuity
C. more imaginative orchestrations
D. All answers are correct.
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Verdi's great comic masterpiece, written when he was seventy-nine, is ______. A. Il Travatore B. Otello C. Falstaff D. Ada
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The soul of a Verdi opera is ______. A. extensive thematic development B. expressive vocal melody C. the situation comedy D. atmospheric orchestral parts
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151. Which of the following statements is not true? A. Giuseppe Verdi, the most popular of all opera composers, was born to a poor family in a tiny Italian village. B. The soul of a Verdi opera is its expressive vocal melody. C. Verdi composed primarily for the Italian musical elite, those who would best appreciate his talents. D. In the course of his long life, Verdi's style became less conventional, more subtle and flexible, with more imaginative orchestrations and richer accompaniments.
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Giuseppe Verdi mainly composed his operas ______.
A. for the Italian musical elite
B. to glorify the singers
C. for his fellow composers
D. to entertain a mass public
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Which of the following operas is not by Verdi? A. La Traviata B. Turandot C. Il Trovatore D. Otello
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Critics were often scandalized by the subject matter of Verdi's operas because they ______.
A. symbolized a free and unified Italy
B. commemorated the Suez canal, which was not even in Europe
C. were based on Shakespearean plays
D. seemed to condone rape, suicide, and free love
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Verdi's first great success, an opera with strong political overtones, was _______. A. Oberto B. Ada C. Nabucco D. La Traviata
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Verdi studied music in _________, the city where Italy's most important opera house, La Scala, is located.
A. Rome
B. Florence
C. Venice
D. Milan
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The Habaera and the Toreador Song are two famous arias from which opera? A. Carmen B. Die Walkure (The Valkyrie) C. Rigoletto D. La Bohme
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144. Which of the following statements is true about the opera, Carmen? A. All the answers are correct. B. Although it is now wildly popular, the original production was unsuccessful. C. Critics objected to the sexual behavior and brutal murder of the main character. D. Bizet originally intended for there to be some spoken dialogue, but productions often replace the dialogue with recitative.
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Georges Bizet composed _________, one of the most popular and frequently performed operas in the world. A. Carmen B. Oberto C. Don Giovanni D. Tosca
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142. Which of the following statements is not true? A. One of Brahms's musical trademarks is his exotic orchestration. B. When he was thirteen, Brahms studied piano, music theory, and composition during the day, and played dance music for prostitutes and their clients in waterfront bars at night. C. Brahms was a romantic who breathed new life into classical forms. D. As conductor of a Viennese musical society, Brahms introduced many forgotten works of Bach, Handel, and Mozart.
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Brahms's musical trademarks included ______. A. bombastic flamboyance B. the use of two notes against three C. the use of da capo arias D. All answers are correct.
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Brahms's works, though very personal in style, are rooted in the music of ______.
A. Joseph Haydn
B. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
C. Ludwig van Beethoven
D. All answers are correct.
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Brahms wrote masterpieces in many musical forms, but never any ______. A. art songs B. operas C. choral works D. chamber music
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Which of the following was not composed by Tchaikovsky? A. Romeo and Juliet B. Pictures at an Exhibition C. Swan Lake D. Symphony No. 6 (Pathtique)
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Music critics of the day pitted Brahms's fondness for traditional forms against ______. A. the nationalism of Dvork B. Wagner's innovative music dramas C. Liszt's personal freedom and thematic transformation D. All answers are correct.
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In Vienna, Johannes Brahms ______.
A. conducted a Viennese musical society
B. edited baroque and classical compositions
C. collected music manuscripts
D. All answers are correct.
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The course of Brahms's artistic and personal life was shaped by the influence of the composer(s) _______. A. Antonin Dvork B. Robert Schumann and his wife Clara C. Franz Liszt D. Richard Wagner and Hector Berlioz
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Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet is ______.
A. a ballet based on Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet
B. a medley of popular melodies taken from his opera of that name
C. an early programmatic symphony inspired by the characters in Shakespeare's play
D. a concert overture consisting of a slow introduction and a fast movement in sonata form
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At its premiere in 1870, Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Overture was ______. A. a tremendous success B. a dismal failure C. performed by a chamber orchestra, with continuo D. enthusiastically applauded by the tsar
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Which of the following was not a member of the Russian Five?
A. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
B. Modest Mussorgsky
C. Csar Cu
D. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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131. Which of the following statements is not true? A. Bed ich Smetana was active in Prague as a composer, pianist, conductor, teacher, and tireless propagandist for Czech musical nationalism. B. Smetana passed the last few years of his life teaching and conducting in Prague. C. The Moldau is one of the six symphonic poems in Smetana's cycle M Vlast (My Country), a romantic representation of nature and a display of Czech nationalism. D. A peasant wedding is suggested in Smetana's The Moldau by a rustic polka.
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Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony ______.
A. is based on Romeo and Juliet
B. was left unfinished by the composer
C. has five movements
D. ends with a slow, despairing finale
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Tchaikovsky participated as a conductor in a concert inaugurating ______. A. Carnegie Hall in New York B. the Leipzig Gewandhaus C. the Bolshoi Opera in Moscow D. the Leningrad Concert Hall
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Nadezhda von Meck was ______. A. one of Tchaikovsky's lovers B. a wealthy benefactress who provided Tchaikovsky with an annuity C. Tchaikovsky's wife D. the inspiration for his Romeo and Juliet
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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky ______.
A. was a child prodigy, learning music at an early age
B. preferred his government position to music
C. studied music theory and violin as a teenager
D. began to study music theory at the age of twenty-one
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Mussorgsky's piano composition Pictures at an Exhibition is best known today in its brilliant orchestral arrangement by ______. A. Edvard Grieg B. Maurice Ravel C. Mikhail Glinka D. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
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125. Which of the following statements is not true? A. Tchaikovsky's progress in music was so rapid that after graduating from the St. Petersburg Conservatory he became professor of harmony at the new Moscow Conservatory. B. Tchaikovsky was a happily-married family man with a cheerful, self-confident outlook. C. Tchaikovsky, while not a member of the "Russian Five," considered himself Russian, in the fullest sense of the word. D. Tchaikovsky, with elements of French, Italian, and German music as well as Russian folk songs, fused national and international elements to produce intensely subjective and passionate music.
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The popular character of the New World Symphony can be traced to the composer's use of ___________ often found in folk music.
A. syncopations
B. pentatonic scales
C. modal scales
D. All of these
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In the first movement of the New World Symphony, Dvork ______. A. used the form of the scherzo B. quoted the black spiritual Swing Low, Sweet Chariot C. composed a theme that resembles Swing Low, Sweet Chariot D. began the symphony with an allegro first theme
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Antonin Dvork's Symphony No. 9 ______.
A. is his most famous work
B. is subtitled From the New World
C. glorifies both the Czech and the American folk spirit
D. All answers are correct.
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In 1892, Dvork went to ___________, where he spent almost three years as director of the National
Conservatory of Music.
A. London
B. Prague
C. New York
D. Leipzig
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Dvork "found a secure basis for a new national [American] musical school" in ______. A. the music of New York B. African American spirituals C. western art music as taught at the National Conservatory of Music D. the traditional folk music of European immigrants
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Antonin Dvork's music was first promoted by ______. A. Hector Berlioz B. Richard Wagner C. Johannes Brahms D. Franz Liszt
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The German master _____________ recommended Dvork's music to his own publisher, resulting in a rapid spread of Dvork's fame.
A. Joseph Haydn
B. Richard Wagner
C. Franz Liszt
D. Johannes Brahms
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Even though Smetana was deaf at the time, he composed a musical work depicting Bohemia's main river as it flows through the countryside. The name of the river, and the musical composition, is the ______. A. Moldau B. Seine C. Danube D. Thames
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Smetana grew up when Bohemia was under ____________ domination. A. German B. Austrian C. Polish D. Russian
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The founder of Czech national music was ______.
A. Csar Cui
B. Antonin Dvork
C. Bed ich Smetana
D. Boris Godunov
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The opera that laid the groundwork for a Russian national style, A Life for the Tsar, was composed by ______.
A. Modest Mussorgsky
B. Csar Cui
C. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
D. Mikhail Glinka