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

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