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