Music 111 - Music Appreciation » Summer 2020 » Chapter 30 Quiz

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Question #1
A song form in which the same melody is repeated for each stanza, often heard in popular music, is known as:
A.   modified strophic form
B.   strophic form
C.   through-composed form
Question #2
A song form that is composed from beginning to end without repetitions of whole sections is called:
A.   strophic form
B.   through-composed form
C.   modified strophic form
Question #3
A group of Lieder unified by a descriptive or narrative theme is known as a:
A.   oratorio
B.   medley
C.   song cycle
Question #4
A Lied is an art song for solo voice and piano sung in ______.
A.   French
B.   either German or French
C.   German
Question #5
Schubert's Erlking was written:
A.   early in his life
B.   in the year he died
Question #6
The text of The Erlking was written by:
A.   Heine
B.   Goethe
Question #7
Schubert wrote approximately_____ songs
A.   one hundred
B.   six hundred
Question #8
Schubert died young from:
A.   syphilis
B.   cancer
C.   tuberculosis
Question #9
What is the form of Schubert's song Erlking?
A.   strophic
B.   through-composed
C.   modified strophic
Question #10
What does the triplet rhythm in the piano accompaniment symbolically represent in this song?
A.   the seductive Erlking
B.   the boy's terror
C.   the horse's hooves
Question #11
Which best characterizes the range for the father's role in the song?
A.   medium range
B.   low range
C.   high range
Question #12
What expressive technique does Schubert use in the boy's cry, "My father, my father"?
A.   melismatic setting
B.   high range and dissonance
C.   major mode
Question #13
How is the character of the Erlking differentiated musically in the song?
A.   low range and minor mode
B.   medium range and major mode
C.   high range and dissonant
Question #14
The composer normally writes the lyrics for the Lied.
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #15
Lieder composers often set the same text as other Lieder composers.
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #16
The piano was declining in popularity at the time of the Romantic Lied.
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #17
Two prominent German Romantic poets whose texts were often set to music were Heinrich Heine and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #18
Romantic Lieder texts often speak of love and/or nature
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #19
Women composers wrote Lieder in the Romantic era.
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #20
Schubert wrote symphonies based on the forms established by Classical composers.
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #21
According to legend, a child touched by the Erlking must die.
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #22
The art song became a popular repertory for amateur and professional musicians in the nineteenth century.
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE

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