Music 120 - Music Appreciation » Fall 2019 » Quiz 37

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Question #1
"Everything he touched turned to song" refers to which composer?
A.   Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
B.   Brahms
C.   Schumann
D.   Schubert
Question #2
A Poet’s Love is one of Schumann’s best-known
A.   poems.
B.   individual Lieder.
C.   All possible answers.
D.   song cycles.
Question #3
A group of Lieder unified by a descriptive or narrative theme is known as a
A.   Singspiel.
B.   medley.
C.   song cycle.
D.   oratorio.
Question #4
A song form that is composed from beginning to end without repetitions of whole sections is
A.   modified strophic form.
B.   strophic form.
C.   bar form.
D.   through-composed form.
Question #5
According to Danish legend, anyone touched by the Elfking must die.
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #6
Art song was a popular repertory
A.   for professional musicians.
B.   for amateur musicians.
C.   for both amateur and professional musicians.
Question #7
Goethe and _____ were the two leading German poets whose poetry was often set to music.
A.   Byron
B.   Keats
C.   Shelley
D.   Heine
Question #8
Hymns, carols, as well as most folk and popular songs are written in _____ form.
A.   modified strophic
B.   bar
C.   strophic
D.   through-composed
Question #9
In Schubert’s Elfking, how many vocalists sing the poem’s four characters?
A.   two
B.   three
C.   four
D.   one
Question #10
It was Schubert’s dying wish
A.   to publish Elfking.
B.   to be buried near Beethoven.
C.   to meet Mozart.
D.   to be buried with his child.
Question #11
The ______ art song, or Lied, is performed by solo voice and piano.
A.   Italian
B.   German
C.   French
D.   Latin
Question #12
Robert Schumann sets texts by _______ in his song cycle A Poet’s Love.
A.   Hugo
B.   Goethe
C.   Heine
D.   Schubert
Question #13
Robert Schumann suffered from
A.   blindness.
B.   tuberculosis.
C.   deafness.
D.   auditory hallucinations.
Question #14
Robert Schumann was a composer and
A.   singer.
B.   music critic.
C.   schoolteacher.
D.   piano teacher.
Question #15
Schubert wrote approximately_____ songs.
A.   two hundred
B.   six hundred
C.   fifty
D.   one hundred
Question #16
How did Robert Schumann meet his wife Clara?
A.   through his friend Johannes Brahms
B.   as a student in Berlin
C.   at a salon concert in Paris
D.   while studying with Clara’s father
Question #17
A song form in which the same melody is repeated for each stanza, often heard in popular music, is known as
A.   strophic form.
B.   modified strophic form.
C.   through-composed form.
D.   bar form.
Question #18
Schubert died at a young age from
A.   typhoid fever.
B.   syphilis.
C.   cancer.
D.   tuberculosis.
Question #19
Schubert’s newest works could be heard at
A.   large formal concerts.
B.   at the home of the emperor, who financially supported the composer.
C.   recitals held inside local churches.
D.   Schubertiads.

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