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MUSIC APPRECIATION FINALEXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Program music is improved by reading a program or watching a connected
work. - ANSWER True
Which of the following is NOT a hallmark of Romantic period music? -
ANSWER The range of dynamics remained the same as the classic period.
ANSWER Miniature is a piece of music that lasts for a few minutes and is
usually written for one instrument.
When a song's music varies between verses, it is considered to have
a_____form. - ANSWER Composed thoroughly
Songs (or other musical compositions) that are united in some way, such as a
melodic idea or storyline, are typically placed together as: - ANSWER: Song
cycles
Which composer created the well-known art tune "Erikonig?" - ANSWER
Frank Shubert
After Robert Schumann was admitted to a mental asylum and subsequently
died, Clara Schumann decided to stop performing music entirely.
Chopin usually wrote for solo piano.
In addition to his polonaises, Chopin was well known for his ___, which are
very slow, lyrical, and intimate compositions - ANSWER Nocturnes
An elude can be defined as: ANSWER A piece of music focuses on refining a
specific performance technique.
, Who did Fredric Chopin have a love affair with? - Answer The novelist George
Sand
A recurrent melody used in multiple movements is classified as - ANSWER
Idee fixe.
Bedrich Smetana's Moldau is a symphonic poem that describes the main river
that flows through the bohemian countryside. This piece can be considered an
example of the usage of exoticism in music. - Answer: False
Fredric Chopin composed a polonaisnise, which originated as a grand
processional dance for Parisian nobles. - Answer: False
Which of these is NOT true? ANSWER: Brahms later married Clara.
A symphonic poem is a type of program music that is intended to be performed
by an___ and comprises of ____ movements. - Orchestra (answer 1)
Giacomo Puccini, an Italian composer, became the most commercially
successful composer of operas.
Giuseppe Verdi's favorite topics for his operas were love stories with terrible
endings. In fact, his final opera finishes with the words "all the world is a joke"
- ANSWER True
A flautist playing the tune for "Mary had a little lamb" in the key of c major and
a trumpet player playing the same melody in the key of B major is an example
of - ANSWER Polytonality
A close grouping of notes performed at the same time might be termed as
"answer cluster."
Igor Stravinsky is a __ composer - ANSWER Neoclassical.
Charles Ives is regarded as one of America's first important composers.
However, he never achieved financial success through his music. Instead, he
made a very good living as an ANSWER insurance agent.
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