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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A harmonies
B tone colors
C rhythms
D forms
Question #2
A intense nationalism.
B love for the actress Harriet Smithson.
C interest in composing for small, intimate ensembles.
D experiences in Rome.
Question #3
A absolute music.
B folk music.
C incidental music.
D pure music.
Question #4
A symphony.
B absolute music.
C opera.
D program music.
Question #5
A vocal music that tells a story.
B music that depicts aspects of nature.
C All answers are correct.
D instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene.
Question #6
A Budapest
B Rome
C Paris
D Weimar
Question #7
A conductor.
B cellist.
C pianist.
D All answers are correct.
Question #8
A nationalism.
B verismo.
C program music.
D exoticism.
Question #9
A ein lied.
B a polonaise.
C a nocturne.
D an etude.
Question #10
A the left hand must play rapid passages throughout.
B it takes nearly an hour to perform.
C the left hand plays the main melody.
D it is played only by the left hand.
Question #11
A waltz.
B etude.
C nocturne.
D mazurka.
Question #12
A have literary programs or titles.
B have a limited variety of moods.
C are exquisite miniatures.
D are for a wide range of media.
Question #13
A All answers are correct.
B earned a good living by teaching piano to the daughters of the rich.
C gave a great number of successful public concerts.
D married the famous writer Aurore Dudevant.
Question #14
A approach of death.
B galloping horse.
C joy of the child.
D steadiness of the father.
Question #15
A symphonies.
B operas.
C string quartets.
D piano concertos.
Question #16
A chanson
B ballade
C durchkomponiert
D lied
Question #17
A All answers are correct.
B solo voice and orchestra.
C solo voice and piano.
D multiple voices.
Question #18
A Clara Schumann.
B Robert Schumann.
C Niccolò Paganini.
D Frédéric Chopin.
Question #19
A Franz Schubert.
B Frédéric Chopin.
C Franz Liszt.
D Hector Berlioz.
Question #20
A An enthusiasm for the culture of the Middle Ages
B A fascination with fantasy
C An interest in exoticism and the past
D An emphasis on balance and clarity of structures
Question #21
A French and Indian War
B wages of skilled performers
C Napoleonic Wars
D American Revolution
Question #22
A Wotan’s castle.
B the home of Siegfried.
C a city in New York State.
D the magic ring.
Question #23
A limited to only the string section.
B light and simple.
C subservient to the singers.
D full and colorful.
Question #24
A unending melody.
B leitmotif.
C speech-song.
D lied.
Question #25
A Richard Wagner
B King Ludwig of Bavaria.
C Arrigo Boito.
D Hans von Bülow.
Question #26
A Tristan and Isolde
B Fidelio
C Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
D Parsifal
Question #27
A rubato.
B ritardando.
C fermata.
D accelerando.
Question #28
A Johann Sebastian Bach.
B Johannes Brahms.
C Ludwig van Beethoven.
D Hector Berlioz.
Question #29
A Bayreuth.
B Weimar.
C Munich.
D Dresden.
Question #30
A Turandot and Manon Lescaut.
B Madame Butterfly and Turandot.
C Tosca and Turandot.
D La Bohème and Madame Butterfly.
Question #31
A The use of the damper pedal allowed a sonorous blend of tones from all registers of the piano.
B A cast-iron frame was introduced to hold the strings under greater tension.
C The piano’s hammers were covered with felt.
D The piano’s range remained basically the same as in the classical period.
Question #32
A Claudio Monteverdi.
B Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
C Giacomo Puccini.
D Richard Wagner.
Question #33
A opera seria.
B exoticism.
C verismo.
D Cavalleria rusticana.
Question #34
A Falstaff
B Turandot
C Madame Butterfly
D Tosca
Question #35
A Turandot.
B La Bohème.
C Manon Lescaut.
D Madame Butterfly.
Question #36
A Falstaff.
B Rigoletto.
C Il Trovatore.
D Aïda.
Question #37
A Rome
B Florence
C Venice
D Milan
Question #38
A All answers are correct.
B Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
C Joseph Haydn.
D Ludwig van Beethoven.
Question #39
A art songs.
B operas.
C choral works.
D chamber music.
Question #40
A Franz Liszt.
B Robert Schumann and his wife Clara.
C Richard Wagner.
D Antonin Dvořák.
Question #41
A was basically the same as in the classical period.
B ranged from twenty to sixty players.
C was larger and more varied in tone color than the classical orchestra.
D had a limited dynamic range due to the primitive nature of the brass instruments.
Question #42
A Modest Mussorgsky
B César Cu
C Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
D Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Question #43
A has five movements.
B was left unfinished by the composer.
C ends with a slow, despairing finale.
D is in the usual four-movement form.
Question #44
A preferred his government position to music.
B was a child prodigy, learning music at an early age.
C began to study music theory at the age of twenty-one.
D studied music theory and violin as a teenager.
Question #45
A All answers are correct.
B the Scandinavian countries.
C Russia.
D Poland and Bohemia.
Question #46
A military resistance to Napoleon.
B All answers are correct.
C common bonds of language, culture, and history.
D romanticism, which glorified love for one’s national heritage.
Question #47
A using their national legends as subject matter.
B basing their music on the folk songs of their country.
C using the rhythms of the dances of their homelands.
D All answers are correct.
Question #48
A 1820-1900
B 1600-1750
C 1450-1600
D 1750-1820
