Roll Over, Beethoven
How did Beethoven first get favorable audience attention in his career?
As a pianist.
For which instrument was double-escapement technology developed?
The piano.
The plot of La traviata is a good example of...
realism.
Strauss's tone poems were heavily influenced by...
Liszt.
Nationalism was a powerful force in the history of opera, but it had a negligible impact on the abstract genres of chamber and orchestral music.
False.
One distinctive trait of Beethoven's Symphony no. 3 is...
unprecedented length of first movement.
The piano's rise as an important and widely used instrument was primarily because...
its wide variety of sonorities and textures.
Wagner's Ring Cycle is about...
conflicting desires for power and love.
Which statement regarding Brahms's output is NOT true?
He wrote no choral works but instead focused his vocal compositions on large-scale opera.
Emulating his idol Richard Wagner, Hugo Wolf preferred to write his own poetry for his Lieder.
False.
What year did political events turn Beethoven's opinion against Napoleon?
1799
Which technology development made an increasingly chromatic harmonic vocabulary more possible?
The depiction of erotic desire in Tristan und Isolde is achieved through...
delay of harmonic resolution.
Sixteenth-century music served as a model for...
Bruckner's choral music.
Wagner's leitmotive technique was very important for twentieth-century developments in film music, but because of nationalistic parochialism it had virtually no impact on nineteenth-century Italian and French opera composers.
False.
Beethoven's third period was distinct for all the following reasons EXCEPT...
the occupation of Vienna by French troops.
Organicist explanation of a musical work would seek to do the following:
relate the small and large scale through morphological relationships.
As opposed to reminiscence motives, Wagnerian leitmotives...
connotations are dramatic and evolving, while representation in reminiscence motives is static.
interpretations of the implications of Beethoven's mature works.
Napoleon's coronation as Emperor of France left Beethoven completely disillusioned by French political ideals.
False.
How did Beethoven's music mirror post-French-revolution social ideals?
represented entrepreneurial freedom from compositional convention.
Romantic composers and their sense of individuality is most closely related to:
social mobility engendered by the French Revolution.
How does the philosophy of Schopenhauer resonate with Wagner's ideas about music dramas?
proposes that music is the most direct expression of the human condition.
Wagner's influence on his contemporaries and successors was felt in all the following areas EXCEPT
the revival of Renaissance modal polyphony.
Romanticism in the early nineteenth century developed as a set of styles that celebrated new experiences of industrial, urban life.
False.