Who wrote the famous Nutcracker ballet as well as the 1812 Overture?
Sand
Chopin
Mussorgsky
Tchaikovsky
Paganini was best remembered as a virtuoso. What is a virtuoso?
A person with exceptional technical and musical ability
A violinist who is also a talented composer
A violin player
An opera composer
With the wider selection of standard orchestral instruments that were available to Romantic era composers, which of the following did they NOT do?
Adhere to traditional arrangements
Increase the emotional range
Increase the dynamic contrast
Use more varied sounds
How is dynamic contrast defined?
Playing an emotional melody at the same time as a boring one
Contrasting the sounds of different instruments
Moving from one volume level to another
Using both loose forms and strict forms
Both Paganini and Rossini were composers who lived and worked during the _____.
early Romantic era
late Romantic era
early Classical era
late Classical era
Which composer built the Bayreuth Festspielhaus to stage his operas?
Ludwig van Beethoven
Richard Wagner
Robert Schumann
Franz Schubert
Which composer is considered to be a great transitional composer who helped transform music from the Classical to the Romantic style?
Liszt
Beethoven
Verdi
Tchaikovsky
Which of the following composers was a member of The Russian Five, also known as The Mighty Handful?
Chopin
Ravel
Tchaikovsky
Mussorgsky
Why were Romantic era composers able to portray a wide variety of contrasting emotions in a single movement?
They used dynamics for the first time.
They used looser and more flexible musical forms.
They created instrumental music without lyrics.
They wrote for a greater number of instruments.
How did Mendelssohn explore realms of fantasy in his A Midsummer Night's Dream overture?
By depicting the sounds of a witches' sabbath.
By writing music based on his dreams.
By depicting the sounds of mischievous woodland fairies.
By writing music based on drug experiences.
Rossini specialized in opera buffa. How is opera buffa defined?
Food-themed opera
Virtuoso opera
Comic opera
Tragic opera
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 gave up music altogether.
He became a very popular opera singer.
He became a painter.
He became a music critic.
Which composer used the ethnic music of Poland, Ukraine, Slovakia, Serbia, Croatia, and Bohemia to create the Slavonic Dances?
Antonín Dvorák
Frederic Chopin
Clara Schumann
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Which of the following were composed by Frederic Chopin?
Nationalistic orchestral music like Night on Bald Mountain.
Operas like Eugene Onegin.
Character pieces for the piano like mazurkas and nocturnes.
Ballets including Swan Lake and the The Nutcracker.
Why was Liszt famous?
He wrote over 600 lieder before an early death from syphilis
He wrote many nationalistic operas.
He was a Romantic era rock star who toured all over Europe.
He wrote beautiful music for the ballet.
Which of the following is NOT a Romantic era composer?
Brahms
Tchaikovsky
Beethoven
Stamitz
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 using strict musical forms.
By writing rich and memorable melodies.
By writing exclusively for the piccolo, pedal harp, tuba.
By focusing on poetry intended to be read with the music.