MCQ Questions
Q.1.
The composer who developed the symphonic poem was
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    Bedřich Smetana.
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    William Shakespeare.
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    Robert Schumann and his wife Clara.
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    Franz Liszt.
Q.2.
The writer whose works had the greatest impact on the young Berlioz was
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    Robert Schumann and his wife Clara.
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    Beethoven
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    William Shakespeare.
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    Giacomo Puccini.
Q.3.
Which of the following is not characteristic of romanticism?
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    thematic transformation.
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    An emphasis on balance and clarity of structures
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    seemed to condone rape, suicide, and free love.
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    pianist
Q.4.
The founder of Czech national music was
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    William Shakespeare.
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    to entertain a mass public.
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    Milan
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    Bedřich Smetana.
Q.5.
At its premiere in 1870, Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Overture was
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    Emotional restraint
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    Niccolò Paganini.
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    Richard Wagner
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    a dismal failure.
Q.6.
The movement in opera known as verismo is best exemplified by
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    Giacomo Puccini.
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    William Shakespeare.
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    Franz Liszt.
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    All answers are correct.
Q.7.
Liszt's piano works are characterized by
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    All answers are correct.
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    the use of two notes against three.
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    solo voice and piano.
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    African American spirituals.
Q.8.
Chopin expressed his love of Poland by composing polonaises and
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    mazurkas
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    to entertain a mass public.
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    symphonic poem
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    operas.
Q.9.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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    a wealthy benefactress who provided Tchaikovsky with an annuity.
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    to entertain a mass public.
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    began to study music theory at the age of twenty-one.
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    nationalism
Q.10.
While Wagner's Ring cycle features fantastical elements such as gods, giants, and magic, the opera is really about
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    to entertain a mass public.
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    was unable to get an opera performed and was reduced to musical hackwork.
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    nineteenth-century society and culture.
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    symphonic poem
Q.11.
Altering the character of a melody by changes in dynamics, orchestration, or rhythm is a romantic technique known as
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    All answers are correct.
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    Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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    thematic transformation.
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    Johann Sebastian Bach.
Q.12.
Mendelssohn is known as the man who rekindled an interest in the music of
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    Richard Wagner
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    Johann Sebastian Bach.
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    All answers are correct.
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    solo voice and piano.
Q.13.
Some of Puccini's operas feature exoticism, as in his use of melodic and rhythmic elements derived from Japanese and Chinese music in his operas
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    Madame Butterfly and Turandot.
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    African American spirituals.
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    Emotional restraint
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    thematic transformation.
Q.14.
Schubert's primary source of income came from his
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    Emotional restraint
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    Richard Wagner
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    All answers are correct.
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    musical compositions.
Q.15.
The deliberate intent to draw creative inspiration from the composer's own homeland is known as
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    polonaise
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    Richard Wagner
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    pianist
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    nationalism
Q.16.
Clara Wieck was
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    African American spirituals.
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    None of these are correct.
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    Johann Sebastian Bach.
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    All answers are correct.
Q.17.
In 1892, Dvořák went to ________, where he spent almost three years as director of the National Conservatory of Music.
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    New York
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    nocturne.
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    program music.
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    exoticism.
Q.18.
Brahms's musical trademarks included
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    the use of two notes against three.
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    All answers are correct.
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    instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene.
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    musical compositions.
Q.19.
As a youth, Franz Liszt was influenced by the performances of
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    Richard Wagner
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    solo voice and piano.
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    Niccolò Paganini.
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    a dismal failure.
Q.20.
Instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene, popular during the romantic period, is called
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    Richard Wagner
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    program music.
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    polonaise
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    Bayreuth, Germany
Q.21.
Nonprogram music is also known as ________ music.
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    polonaise
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    tone colors
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    absolute
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    Nabucco
Q.22.
The soul of a Verdi opera is
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    Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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    expressive vocal melody.
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    None of these are correct.
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    All answers are correct.
Q.23.
Mendelssohn wrote in all musical forms except
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    Johann Sebastian Bach.
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    to entertain a mass public.
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    operas.
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    symphonic poem
Q.24.
Verdi's first great success, an opera with strong political overtones, was
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    Johann Sebastian Bach.
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    New York
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    Nabucco
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    nocturne.
Q.25.
Wagner was a virtuoso on the
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    None of these are correct.
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    expressive vocal melody.
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    the use of two notes against three.
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    All answers are correct.
Q.26.
The citizen's sense of national identity and patriotic feelings were intensified by
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    All answers are correct.
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    Johann Sebastian Bach.
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    African American spirituals.
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    solo voice and piano.
Q.27.
Brahms's works, though very personal in style, are rooted in the music of
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    Johann Sebastian Bach.
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    solo voice and piano.
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    All answers are correct.
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    African American spirituals.
Q.28.
Parisians were startled by Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony because of its
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    African American spirituals.
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    All answers are correct.
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    Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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    a dismal failure.
Q.29.
The librettos to The Ring of the Nibelung were written by
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    a dismal failure.
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    Richard Wagner
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    All answers are correct.
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    Niccolò Paganini.
Q.30.
Music criticism was a source of income for both Hector Berlioz and
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    Robert Schumann.
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    Richard Wagner
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    a dismal failure.
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    Johann Sebastian Bach.
Q.31.
Drawing creative inspiration from cultures of lands foreign to the composer is known as
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    pianist
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    exoticism.
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    Emotional restraint
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    tone colors
Q.32.
The Fantastic Symphony reflects Berlioz's
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    African American spirituals.
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    solo voice and piano.
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    All answers are correct.
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    love for the actress Harriet Smithson.
Q.33.
Berlioz was extraordinarily imaginative in treating the orchestra, creating ________ never before heard.
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    leitmotif
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    tone colors
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    nocturne.
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    New York
Q.34.
Liszt created the ________, a one-movement orchestral composition based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea.
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    symphonic poem
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    mazurkas
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    operas
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    to entertain a mass public.
Q.35.
Schubert
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    love for the actress Harriet Smithson.
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    the use of two notes against three.
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    was the first great master of the romantic art song.
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    seemed to condone rape, suicide, and free love.
Q.36.
Giuseppe Verdi mainly composed his operas
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    All answers are correct.
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    to entertain a mass public.
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    love for the actress Harriet Smithson.
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    nineteenth-century society and culture.
Q.37.
Until the age of thirty-six, Franz Liszt toured Europe as a virtuoso
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    exoticism.
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    Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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    pianist
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    a dismal failure.
Q.38.
The orchestra in the romantic period
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    Bedřich Smetana.
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    All answers are correct.
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    Robert Schumann and his wife Clara.
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    was larger and more varied in tone color than the classical orchestra.
Q.39.
Program music is
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    the use of two notes against three.
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    love for the actress Harriet Smithson.
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    instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene.
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    absolute
Q.40.
Critics were often scandalized by the subject matter of Verdi's operas because they
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    All answers are correct.
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    tone colors
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    seemed to condone rape, suicide, and free love.
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    exoticism.
Q.41.
Which of the following was not a member of the Russian five?
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    thematic transformation.
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    Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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    Niccolò Paganini.
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    An emphasis on balance and clarity of structures
Q.42.
A slow, lyrical, intimate composition for piano, associated with evening and nighttime, is the
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    nocturne.
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    tone colors
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    leitmotif
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    exoticism.