FINAL MUSIC HISTORY TEST JOEL TOM MARCO

The nickname for Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 is _______.

The first American composer with an international reputation was _______.

"Viva Verdi" was ________.

This was composed by Bruckner.

Gounod's Faust is which type of opera?

Of the following, which work was composed by Prokofiev before he returned to the Soviet Union?

What type of music did the Fisk Jubilee Singers specialize in performing?

Frederick Fennell founded which type of performing group?

Of the following, which describes the American operatic scene in the 19th century?

Of the following musicals, which features music by Leonard Bernstein?

Which of the following is a major collection of piano pieces by Robert Schumann?

How many symphonies did Brahms compose?

In his early years, Bartok made his career as a(n) _______.

Stravinsky was commissioned to compose his first ballet music by _______.

Talking Heads are associated with this genre.

Of the following, which is true of Irving Berlin?

This country developed an entertainment form called vaudeville.

Of the following, who stayed in Germany during the Nazi Regime?

Who was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in music?

Webern received a Ph. D in _______.

What composer was known as "The Waltz King"?

In what way does big band differ from New Orleans Jazz?

Which composer used themes from his own Lieder in his chamber music?

Who is associated with Gebrauchsmusik?

Operas of which nationality were particularly popular in new Orleans in the mid-nineteenth century?

What was not a trend in the early 19th century?

Of the following works, which mixes Western and Asian musical sounds?

George M. Cohan inaugurated a distinctive type of American music with ______.

For his major operas, Virgil Thompson collaborated with _____.

Symphony by Berlioz

Public Enemy is associated with this genre.

An orchestral work in one movement with a literary or other program is called _____.

The members of the Les Six were inspired by the music of _____.

Tintinnabuli is associated with _______

Smetana's country of origin.

Which of the following works is not a nationalist composition from Bohemia?

Which of the following statements characterizes Mahler's orchestration?

Manuel de Falla composed this work.

Treatise on Instrumentation and Orchestra was written by _____.

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's masterpiece is ______.

The Cotton Club, where Duke Ellington got established, is located in _____.

The technique used by Liszt to unify Les Preludes is called _____.

The Bartered Bride is perhaps this country's best known opera.

Of the following, which is a six-movement symphony with voices by Mahler?

Scriabin modeled his first piano pieces on the music of _____.

Chopin was influenced by the nocturnes of ______.

What characterizes the music of Erik Satie?

Bright Sheng combined elements from the musical traditions of Europe and _____.

He composed Sinfonia India.

Winterreise s based on poems by ____.

The dazzling violin virtuoso who influenced Liszt was ______.

Of the following, which does not describe Liszt's Piano Sonata in B Minor?

Wagner's Tristan und Isolde was influential because _____.

Of the following, who was not a member of the Les Six?

Of the following, which describes Musorgsky's approach to harmony?

Of the following works, which was created with the twelve-tone technique?

This was composed by Richard Strauss

What older form does Brahms use in the finale of his Symphony No. 4?

Who composed the Romantic ballet Giselle?

Which type of piano music was not composed by Brahms?

Sibelius composed this work?

What characterizes the music of Erik Satie?

The Sex Pistols are associated with this genre?

Which composer combined atonality with the expressive gestures of late Romantic music

Of the following, which describes the aria style of Rossini?

This was composed by Wolf

This was composed by Liszt

The music of Bartok mixes the traditions of which sources?

Rochberg's String Quartet No. 5 illustrates which trend?

Jacques Offenbach is associated most closely with which type of opera?

The man who created the premier series of revues in New York was _____.

The New Orleans jazz form is similar to what classical structure?

The slow movement of the Eroica Symphony ______.

Verismo is associated with the operas of which country

The nickname for Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 is _____.

Which city was the center of opera in the early 19th century?

Of the following, which is not a characteristic of African-American music in 19th Century

Elgar's country of origin

Of the following, which is not a theme of Romanticism?

Of the following, which was not a source of inspiration for Debussy?

Which opera contains the "Wolf's Glen" scene?

Verdi's first creative period culminated with the composition of ______.

Maurice Ravel composed this work.

Who was the principal librettist for grand opera?

Nirvana is associated with this genre:

Of the following, which is not a characteristic of Beethoven's late period?

He composed Guillame Tell

Which mixed media event incorporates marching band routines?

The main composers of the Italian opera in the beginning of the 19th century were _____.

What type of music did the Fisk Jubilee singers specialize in performing?

Stravinsky was commissioned to compose his first ballet music by ______.

This was composed by Bruckner:

This country developed an entertainment form called Vaudeville

Which opera relates a decadent biblical story based on a play by Oscar Wilde?

A sacred work with operatic elements by Rossini

He composed Sweet Canedienne?

The most famous and important opera composer in Europe around 1825 was ____.

Of the following, who would not be considered a member of the New German School?

Of the following, which was not a characteristic of Verdi's late operas?

Of the following, which was a characteristic of German romantic opera?

Of the following, which is not a way that Beethoven earned a living during his first creative period?

Which is associated with Elliot Carter?

Which of the following works is a four-movement symphonic suite by Rimsky Korsakov based on stories by the 101 Arabian Nights?

Immigrants from which country dominated American classical music in the late 19th century?

Wagner's Tristan und Isolde was influential because?

The name of Beethoven's Symphony No. 3?

The poem L'apres-midi d'un faune was written by ______.

Of the following, which describes the symphonies of Brahms?

Symphony by Mendellsohn _____.

The first modern conservatory of music was founded in _____.

Beethoven's first music teacher was ___

Which of the following belongs to Beethoven's first creative period?

Of the following, which does not describe Beethoven's first string quartets?

Which of the following can be said of Beethoven's "Fidelio"?

A single-movement work for string quartet from Beethoven's late period.

A song cycle from Beethoven's late period.

The nickname for Beethoven's Symphony No. 6?

When Beethoven realized that he was going deaf, he wrote _________.

Beethoven intended the Missa solemnis to be performed when this man became archbishop.

He wrote the words to Ode to Joy.

He was a patron who allowed Beethoven to live in one of his houses.

Beethoven dedicated his Opus 59 string quartets to him.

Which composer's works served as models for Beethoven's Missa solemnis?

Of the following, which is unusual about the Ninth Symphony?

Schubert favored which form(s) in setting his lieder?

The piano parts of Schubert's lieder are notable for their _____.

Dichterliebe is _____.

Winterreise is based on poems by ______.

Robert Schumann wrote _______.

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's masterpiece is _______.

A group of lieder designed to be performed as a set is called a _____.

Gradus ad Parnassum is a set of etudes composed by _____.

Of the following, which was the major piano genre for Schubert?

Lieder ohne Worte were composed by ____.

Chopin composed piano works inspired by the folk music of which country?

Which of the following genres did not find a place in Chopin's output?

The dazzling violin virtuoso who influenced Liszt was ____.

Of the following, which would be the subject of a ballad?

Who were Florestan, Eusebius, and Raro?

Chopin was influenced by the nocturns of _____.

The first American composer with an international reputation was ____.

Who created and first used the term recital?

What did Berlioz call the recurring theme used in his Symphonie Fantastique?

Symphony by Schubert

Symphony by Schumann

The Cecilian movement was ______.

Of the following, which is a characteristic of nineteenth-century orchestras?

Which work did Robert Schumann praise for its "heavenly length"?

Treatise on Instrumentation and Orchestration  was written by ___.

Which of the following does not describe the Violin Concerto by Mendelssohn?

Schubert's quintet, the late chamber-music masterpiece, is composed for string quartet and what additional instrument?

A massive choral work by Berlioz

A collection of spiritual songs in shape-note notation

An oratorio by Mendelssohn

One of Schubert's choral masterworks

A sacred work, with operatic elements, by Rossini

Of the following, which is not a contribution of Lowell Mason to American music?

Who published a hymnbook designed for an all-black congregation?

A fast, brilliant, concluding section in an Italian operatic is called a ______.

Which city was the center of opera in the early ninteteenth century?

The typical scene structure of a Rossini opera is ______.

Of the following, which describes the aria style of Rossini?

This composer created German Romantic opera.

He composed Norma

He composed Les Huguenots.

He composed Lucia di Lammermoor

Of the following, which does not characterize grand opera?

Which opera contains a famous "mad scene"?

Of the following, which describes the American operatic scene in the nineteenth century?

Of the following, which does not describe American minstrel shows?

Jacques Offenbach is associated most closely with which type of opera?

Bizet's most famous opera was _____.

Verdi's first great success was ______.

Wagner's term for the union of all the arts in a drama is _____.

Of the following, which characterzes the librettos of Wagner's operas?

Der Ring des Nibelungen is _____.

The Mighty Handful were ______.

Of the following, which describes Musorgsky's approach to harmony??

Of the following operas, which is not by Puccini?

Verismo is associated with the operas of which country?

Of the following, who was the leading ballet composer in nineteenth-century France?

Felipe Pedrell sparked a national revival in this country with his opera Los Pirineos.

Gilbert and Sullivan were natives of this country.

Antonio Carlos Gomes, who became internationally recognized for his opera Il Guarany, was originally from this country.

According to the text, what is the most important fact about music in the late nineteenth century?

Brahms's Symphony No. 1 is primarily indebted to the music of _____.

This was composed by Wolf.

This was composed by Liszt.

This was composed by Brahms.

The technique used by Liszt to unify Les Preludes is called ____.

Of the following, which does not describe Liszt's Piano Sonata in B Minor?

Bruckner modeled his symphonies on which work by Beethoven?

Of the following, which describes the Lieder by Wolf?

Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss is based on _____.

Of the following, which is not associated with Richard Strauss?

Franck inaugurated a new style of music for the _____.

Gabriel Faure is usually associated with which movement?

Who is considered to be the founder of modern French chamber music?

What is new in Faure's songs of La bonne chanson?

Of the following, which are unusual features of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6?

Borodin's country of origin

Grieg's country of origin

Smetana's country of origin

MacDowell's country of origin

Which country avoided developing a national style in the late nineteenth century?

Which work by Musorgsky was originally written for piano and was later orchestrated by Ravel?

Which of the following works is not a nationalist composition from Bohemia?

Of the following, who is not a noted nineteenth-century American composer?

The Gaelic Symphony was composed by _____.

Tin Pan Alley is a nickname for _____.

Of the following, which is not a characteristic of African-American music in the nineteenth century?

What type of music did the Fisk Jubilee Singers specialize in performing?

George M. Cohan inaugurated a distnctive type of American music with _____.

Which composer inaugurated the era of the film score?

Which composer introduced ragtime to rhythms to Broadway and brought the cakewalk and ragtime to Europe?

What city is considered to be the cradle of jazz?

Early jazz seems to have begun as a mixture of what musical types?

What is the principal difference between ragtime and jazz?

Of the following, which was not a source of inspiration for Debussy?

In what way does Debussy's harmonic style differ from that of Wagner?

The poem Prelude to the Afternoon of a Fawn was written by _____.

Ralph Vaughan Williams composed this work.

Gstav Holst composed this work.

Manuel de Falla composed this work.

Sibelius composed this wrk.

How did Rachmaninoff primarily make his living?

Scriabin modeled his first piano pieces on the music of ____.

What characterizes the music of Erik Satie?

What country fostered futurism?

in what style were the early works of Schoenberg written?

Of the following methods, which dd Schoenberg use to give coherence to atonal music?

Of the following works, which was created with twelve-tone technique?

The vocal technique used in Pierrot lunaire is called _______.

Which composer combined atonality with the expressive gestures of late Romantic music?

Wozzeck is an outstanding example of ____.

Which work did Berg compose as a requiem for the daughter of Alma Mahler?

Webern's music exerted the greatest influence on composers who worked _____.

Which of the following does not characterize Webern's Symphony, Op. 21?

Which work marks Stravinsky's turn towards neoclassicism?

Stravinsky's late works employ ___.

Stravinsky's approach to harmony can be described as ______.

In his early years, Bartok made his career as a _______.

The music of Bartok mixes the traditions of which sources?

Of the following, which was composed early in Bartok's career?

Charles Ives made his living in what business?

Of the following, which is a strand not found in the music of Ives?

At what point did Ives receive recognition for his work?

Who composed the music for Show Boat?

What characterized Tin Pan Alley songs after 1910?

Of the ffollowing, which is true of Irving Berlin?

W.C Handy is known for his work in this genre.

Benny Goodman is known for his work in this genre.

Of the following, which does not characterize the blues?

The New Orleans jazz form is similar to what classical structure?

Big bands are divided into which three sections?

Gershwin's first attempt to combine jazz and classical tradition was:

 Shostakovich was attacked in Pravda for which work?

Which composer is known for works employing tone clusters at the piano?

Ruth Crawford Seeger gave up composition for which activity?

With whom did Aaron Copland and other American composers study in Paris?

For his major operas, Virgil Thompson collaborated with ____.

How does rhythm-and-blues differ from traditional blues?

Which song launched rock and roll nationally?

Which group is associated with Acid Rock?

Of the following, who was prominent folk singer from the 1940s and 1950s?

Motown is associated with which city?

Of the following musicals, which features music by Leonard Bernstein?

Of the following, which characterizes bebop jazz?

Of the following, who is associated with cool jazz?

Of the following, which was the leading patron of composers in the US after World War II?