Which composer is considered to be a great transitional composer who helped transform music from the Classical to the Romantic style?
Liszt
Verdi
Beethoven
Tchaikovsky
Because a hand injury prevented him from fulfilling his dream of being a concert pianist, what did Robert Schumann do instead of being a performer?
He became a very popular opera singer.
He gave up music altogether.
He became a music critic.
He became a painter.
Which of the following is NOT a Romantic era composer?
Beethoven
Stamitz
Brahms
Tchaikovsky
Why was Liszt famous?
He wrote over 600 lieder before an early death from syphilis
He was a Romantic era rock star who toured all over Europe.
He wrote beautiful music for the ballet.
He wrote many nationalistic operas.
Which of the following were composed by Frederic Chopin?
Character pieces for the piano like mazurkas and nocturnes.
Ballets including Swan Lake and the The Nutcracker.
Nationalistic orchestral music like Night on Bald Mountain.
Operas like Eugene Onegin.
Which of the following composers was a member of The Russian Five, also known as The Mighty Handful?
Chopin
Ravel
Tchaikovsky
Mussorgsky
Both Paganini and Rossini were composers who lived and worked during the _____.
early Romantic era
early Classical era
late Classical era
late Romantic era
Paganini was best remembered as a virtuoso. What is a virtuoso?
A violin player
A violinist who is also a talented composer
A person with exceptional technical and musical ability
An opera composer
Rossini specialized in opera buffa. How is opera buffa defined?
Tragic opera
Comic opera
Food-themed opera
Virtuoso opera
How did Mendelssohn explore realms of fantasy in his A Midsummer Night's Dream overture?
By writing music based on drug experiences.
By writing music based on his dreams.
By depicting the sounds of mischievous woodland fairies.
By depicting the sounds of a witches' sabbath.
Which composer used the ethnic music of Poland, Ukraine, Slovakia, Serbia, Croatia, and Bohemia to create the Slavonic Dances?
Antonín Dvorák
Clara Schumann
Frederic Chopin
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Which composer built the Bayreuth Festspielhaus to stage his operas?
Franz Schubert
Richard Wagner
Ludwig van Beethoven
Robert Schumann
How is dynamic contrast defined?
Contrasting the sounds of different instruments
Using both loose forms and strict forms
Playing an emotional melody at the same time as a boring one
Moving from one volume level to another
One way that Romantic era composers wanted to connect with their audiences was through creating emotionally-charged instrumental music. How did the composers do this?
By writing exclusively for the piccolo, pedal harp, tuba.
By focusing on poetry intended to be read with the music.
By writing rich and memorable melodies.
By using strict musical forms.
Why were Romantic era composers able to portray a wide variety of contrasting emotions in a single movement?
They used looser and more flexible musical forms.
They used dynamics for the first time.
They created instrumental music without lyrics.
They wrote for a greater number of instruments.
With the wider selection of standard orchestral instruments that were available to Romantic era composers, which of the following did they NOT do?
Increase the emotional range
Use more varied sounds
Adhere to traditional arrangements
Increase the dynamic contrast
