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