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