6.16 unit test K12 Music Appreciation Romantic Period and Twentieth - century Please help and answer all During what period were emotion and feeling an important source of musical inspiration?
a. Renaissance
b. Romantic
c. Roman
d. Baroque
Which instrument usually accompanies art songs?
a. orchestra
b. piano
c. quartet
d. guitar
Which form is not a type of program music?
a. art song
b. concert overture
c. program symphony
d. symphonic poem
What type of music is Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique an example of?
a. orchestral suite
b. symphonic poem
c. program symphony
d. opera
Who wrote the play on which Tchaikovsky based his concert overture Romeo and Juliet?
a. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
b. William Shakespeare
c. Walt Whitman
d. Emily Dickinson
Which composer believed in the absolute oneness of music and drama, bringing poetry, scenic design, staging, action, and music together in what he called Gesamtkunstwerk?
a. Stravinsky
b. Tchaikovsky
c. Wagner
d. Mussorgsky
What was one activity of the Russian Five?
a. They established a national style of music for their country.
b. They illuminated other composer’s works.
c. They analyzed the effects of age on musical instruments.
d. They documented the history of music from the beginning of written history.
Why is Tchaikovsky not considered part of the Russian Five?
a. He was too young at the time.
b. He was not Russian.
c. He combined Russian influences with Western classical tradition.
d. His music was not influenced by Russian folk music.
Which style of music often includes native folk songs?
a. domestic music
b. regional music
c. nationalistic music
d. homeland music
Which composer celebrated both American and Czech spirits, taking inspiration from Native American music and African American spirituals?
a. Sousa
b. Dvorák
c. Ives
d. Tchaikovsky
Which patriotic song, written by Katharine Lee Bates, is considered an unofficial anthem of the United States?
a. “Battle Hymn of the Republic”
b. “The Star-Spangled Banner”
c. “America the Beautiful”
d. “My Country ‘Tis of Thee”
From which country is the nationalistic composer Charles Ives?
a. England
b. Finland
c. United States
d. France
How did the difference between consonant and dissonant chords change in twentieth-century music?
a. The difference provided stability.
b. The difference began to disappear.
c. The chords began to create tensions that resolved.
d. The difference created resolution.
What important twentieth-century theoretical model did Arnold Schoenberg develop?
a. chance music
b. twelve-tone system
c. dissonant music
d. musique concrete
How many times can a specific pitch appear in a tone row?
a. one
b. two
c. three
d. twelve
Edgard Varèse created one of the first pieces of which type of music?
a. electronic music
b. chance music
c. pentatonic music
d. twelve-tone music
How long does it take to perform the entire Der Ring des Nibelungen?
a. 5 hours
b. 8 hours
c. 10 hours
d. 18 hours
Which type of music did Igor Stravinsky use during his Russian period?
a. twelve-tone music
b. Russian folk songs
c. classical music
d. Baroque ornamentation
Which term is used for a person who leads an orchestra?
a. orchestrator
b. conductor
c. composer
d. arranger
James Levine conducted the Metropolitan Opera and what orchestra during the same time period?
a. Chicago Symphony Orchestra
b. Boston Symphony Orchestra
c. Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
d. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra