Romantic Period Music Quiz

Answers are in these two sites: Romantic Composers and Romantic Music Characteristics.

1. Who is NOT a composer of the Romantic Period?

A Beethoven
B Tchaikovsky
C J.S. Bach
D Grieg

2. When Napoleon made himself Emperor, Beethoven changed the name of Symphony #3 to:

A Eritrea
B Eroica
C Napoleon
D Neapolitan

3. Which is NOT an characteristic of the Romantic Period?

A Far-away places
B Supernatural or Mysterious
C Nationalism
D The Hero
E Politeness
F The Unusual
G Fantasy

4. Which composer lost his hearing later in his career?

A Berlioz
B Mendelssohn
C Beethoven
D Grieg

5. Music by Edvard Grieg retelling an old Norwegian story:

A Flight of The Bumblebee
B 1812 Overture
C In The Hall of the Mountain King
D Sleeping Beauty

6. The idea that a theme of music represents an idea, person, or thing is:

A Revolution
B Freedom
C Motet
D Leitmotif

7. All of these are ballets by Tschaikovsky EXCEPT:

A The Nutcracker
B Sleeping Beauty
C Swan Lake
D Orpheus

8. Which of these composers was born in Italy?

A Beethoven
B Sibelius
C Rossini
D Liszt

9. In Peter and the Wolf, Prokofiev used theme songs and theme ___:

A colors
B instruments
C stories
D parks

10. In the 1812 Overture, anthems from Russia and __ strive for victory?

A France
B England
C Norway
D Italy

11. The opera "William Tell" was composed by:

A Tschaikovsky
B Bach
C Rossini
D Beethoven

12. Illustrating the Romantic Period characteristic of the supernatural:

A Bizet's "Carmen"
B 1812 Overture
C "Romeo and Juliet"
D "Night on Bald Mountain"

13. Franz Liszt wrote music for the:

A Piano
B Opera
C Ballet
D Orchestra

14. Franz Liszt was born in:

A Norway
B Spain
C Hungary
D Russia

15. The Romantic characteristic of Nationalism is brought out in:

A Chopin's Polonaises
B Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture"
C Sibelius' "Finlandia"
D All of the above

16. Romantic Period music rebelled against which music period?

A Baroque
B Renaissance
C Opera
D Classical

17. Romantic Music is highly emotional with sudden contrasts between:

A Good and Evil
B Loud and Soft
C Men and Women
D Germany and France

18. Beethoven's "Eroica" illustrates the Romantic characteristic of:

A Strange and far-away places
B Young Love & it's heartaches
C Supernatural
D Heroism

19. Beethoven's 9th symphony broke tradition by using:

A Tubas
B a chorus
C church bells
D an anvil

20. "Hark The Herald Angels Sing" was written by:

A Hector Berlioz
B Alexander Dumas
C Felix Mendelssohn
D Franz Schubert




 

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