Music 120 - Music Appreciation » Fall 2019 » Quiz 45

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Question #1
A leitmotif is a
A.   recurring melodic theme that carries specific meaning.
B.   continually repeated rhythm.
C.   nineteenth-century stage illumination.
D.   Viking ship captain
Question #2
Contemporary film composer John Williams uses Wagner’s musical foreshadowing devices in the Star Wars movies.
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #3
Who wrote the libretto to Wagner’s The Valkyrie?
A.   Puccini
B.   Piave
C.   Wagner
D.   Lorenzo di Ponte
Question #4
Germany is noted for its long-established opera traditions.
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #5
How many music dramas make up Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung?
A.   eight
B.   six
C.   four
D.   three
Question #6
How was the Ring cycle received by the nineteenth-century public?
A.   near riot took place at the premiere
B.   not premiered until twenty years after his death
C.   Wagnerian gospel spread across Europe as new art-religion
D.   there was little interest
Question #7
Light German opera featuring spoken dialogue is called
A.   bel canto.
B.   Singspiel.
C.   music drama.
D.   grand opera.
Question #8
________ commissioned Wagner to complete the Ring cycle and helped to finance a theater dedicated to the performance of Wagner’s music.
A.   Prince Leopold II
B.   Louis XIV
C.   Ludwig II of Bavaria
D.   King George II
Question #9
The Valkyrie is sung in which language?
A.   Italian
B.   Czech
C.   German
D.   French
Question #10
The role of the Valkyries was to carry fallen heroes from the battlefield to Valhalla on their winged horses.
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #11
The theme that carries specific meanings, suggesting in a few notes a character, an emotion, an idea, or an object is called
A.   a leitmotif.
B.   an idée fixe.
C.   Klangfarbenmelodie.
D.   Singspiel.
Question #12
Which term refers to Wagner’s concept of a total artwork, encompassing all the arts?
A.   leitmotif
B.   Gesamtkunstwerk
C.   Klangfarbenmelodie
D.   Sprechstimme
Question #13
Wagner’s operas are considered nationalistic because they
A.   glorify the German land.
B.   are inspired by medieval German epics.
C.   All possible answers.
D.   glorify the German people.
Question #14
What describes Wagner’s harmonic language?
A.   strictly diatonic
B.   modal
C.   chromatic
D.   pentatonic
Question #15
What did Wagner call his operas?
A.   music dramas
B.   opera buffa
C.   opera seria
D.   grand opera
Question #16
What is the basis for the story of The Valkyrie?
A.   a book by J. R. R. Tolkien
B.   a medieval German epic poem
C.   a French play by Victor Hugo
D.   the legend of the Holy Grail
Question #17
Which describes Wagner’s "endless melody"?
A.   void of separate arias, duets, ensembles
B.   more flexible than traditional arias
C.   more melodious than traditional recitative
D.   All possible answers.
Question #18
Which describes the character of Wotan?
A.   the father of the gods
B.   a hideous dwarf
C.   the fearless hero who awakens Brünnhilde
D.   the god of fire
Question #19
Which elements are present in Wagner’s operas?
A.   profound feeling for nature
B.   glorification of the German land and people
C.   All possible answers.
D.   supernatural as an element
Question #20
Which is NOT an element of Wagner’s "leading motives"?
A.   explanations of the motives are stated in a printed program provided by Wagner
B.   the motives trace changes in the characters
C.   the motives are recurring and consist of a few notes
D.   the motives suggest emotions, ideas, objects

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