Chapter_12 (1st Ed. Ch. 24 Unit 5) CORRECT ANSWERS Musical Life in the Nineteenth Century TRUE/FALSE 1. Over five percent of Vienna’s population attended Mozart’s funeral. ANS: F 2. The performance of Bach’s St. Matthew’s Passion in 1829 was the first public performance of the work since Bach’s death. ANS: T 3. One of the reasons that music publishing flourished was the growth of the middle class. ANS: T 4. Specialized musical training had been mainly the province of the church schools from medieval times through the eighteenth century. ANS: T 5. Around 1800, the piano was a delicate wooden-framed instrument with a range of five octaves. ANS: T 6. The most famous maker of instruments was Adolphe Sax, who gave his name to full lines of saxophones and saxhorns. ANS: T 7. The Great American inventor, Benjamin Franklin, successfully captured his voice on a device he called a recordophone. ANS: F 8. The sonata, the concerto and the symphony all lost in prestige during the course of the century. ANS: F 9. The Romantic fascination with death and the dark side expressed itself in numerous ways. ANS: T

MULTIPLE CHOICE 10. The Bach revival a. was very brief and made no difference in the future of music b. was held at First Lutheran Church

d. was led by his dear friend G.F. Handel e. happened three hundred years after his death.

c. confirmed interest in music of the past ANS: C 11. Some of America’s most beloved tunes were printed as song sheets including a. “Amazing Grace” and “Elijah Rock” d. “Down by the Salley Gardens” and “It was a Lover and His Lass” b. “The Star Spangled Banner” and “Battle e. “Caro mio ben” and “Santa Lucia” Hymn of the Republic” c. “Home on the Range” and “Sweet Georgia Brown” ANS: B 12. The growing interest in classical music contributed to the a. growth of music publishing d. building of the Bach Hall of Fame b. development of harmonica charts e. gap between the lower and upper class c. downfall of modern music ANS: A 13. The first American conservatory was ________________, founded in 1857. a. The Juilliard School d. Cleveland State Conservatory b. Brevard Music Center e. Peabody Conservatory c. Shenandoah Conservatory ANS: E 14. Scholars who research the history of music are called a. music history buffs d. music history researchers b. musicologists e. nerdologists c. Renaissance men ANS: B 15. Conservatories trained all except a. singers for opera b. keyboard performers c. ministers

d. singers for oratorio e. composers

ANS: C 16. Instrument makers invented dozens of new instruments; most were a. reed and bamboo wind instruments d. not successful b. metal percussion instruments e. string instruments with metal strings c. metal wind instruments ANS: C

17. The saxophone eventually became all of the following except a. a full-time member of the military band d. the dominant wind instrument in popular music b. a part-time member of the orchestra e. a full-time member of the symphony orchestra c. a jazz instrument ANS: E 18. At the turn of the century, concert bands, such as the one led by _________ became popular. a. Charles Ives d. Marvin Gaye b. John Philip Sousa e. Benjamin Dale c. Harold Hill ANS: B 19. The most significant fact about the early sound recordings is simply that a. they happened d. we still have many of them today b. they made great recordings of these early e. gave us an idea of what this music works sounded like, since the notation was not clear c. they had excellent quality ANS: A 20. In the United States, the new mass entertainment included a. musical comedy, minstrel shows and d. nothing. There was not yet any mass concerts by touring concert bands entertainment in the United States b. touring magic acts, jugglers, and opera e. The Cakewalk, Dixieland, and scenes shuffleboard songs c. Shakespearian theatre, minimalist drama and steel drumming ANS: A 21. Ballet went solo during the nineteenth century after being an integral part of ______________. a. Christmas productions d. the liturgy b. opera e. wedding entertainment c. palace entertainment only ANS: B 22. At the dawn of the twentieth century, musical entertainment was truly a _______________. a. dying art d. luxury that most could not afford b. high-class affair e. rare occurrence c. business, and a thriving one. ANS: C 23. Two of the greatest virtuoso players lived during this era, and they were a. Chopin and Schubert c. Charlie Daniels and Fred Rogers b. Liszt and Paganini d. Tchaikovsky and Haydn ANS: B

24. Much of the important solo and orchestral literature demanded greater fluency and a. more paper d. mastery of the old style b. increased pay for musicians e. compositional know-how c. new techniques ANS: C 25. The grandest staged music event of the century was a. the World’s Peace Jubilee and d. Woodstock, which became a annual event International Music Festival in Boston in 1874 b. Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des e. the Black Crook in 1866 Nibelungen, a cycle of four music dramas that last about fifteen hours c. The revival of Bach’s music at the concert featuring “St. Matthew’s Passion” ANS: B 26. The Bayreuth Festspielhaus is a. a football stadium in German where the larger events had to be held b. a concert hall in Lebanon where many of the virtuosos of the nineteenth century performed

c. the theater constructed specifically for the performances of Wagner’s works. d. the theatre constructed specifically for Paganini to play his violin

ANS: C 27. Wagner claimed that the future direction of music was a. pure opera d. the synthesis of the arts b. in keyboard music e. the independence of the soloists c. looking dismal ANS: D 28. Liszt’s later works anticipated a system of tonal organization in which pitches do not focus around a tonic, which is now called a. non-tonic tonality d. atonality b. dissonance supreme e. measured harmonization c. chromatic organization ANS: D COMPLETION 29. Music_________________grew in response to the increased demand. ANS: publishing 30. For most of the nineteenth century, Americans learned the latest songs from published song sheets with __________________ but no music. ANS: lyrics

31. Most of the major innovations in instrument-making involved ______________. ANS: metal 32. Of the instruments invented during the nineteenth century, only one, the ______________, has become an integral part of the symphony orchestra. ANS: tuba 33. During the nineteenth century, _________________ flourished musically and commercially. ANS: opera 34. _________________ dances, especially from exotic locales, became popular music. ANS: Folk 35. The music of previous generations, and especially the music of _______________, both inspired and intimidated nineteenth-century composers. ANS: Beethoven

MATCHING 36. ETUDE: musical work designed to develop a particular technical skill 37. Romanticism: cultural movement of the nineteenth century that valued subjectivity, feeling and inspiration 38. sonata, concerto and symphony: major instrumental genres of the era 39. Hungarian Dances: inspired by Gypsy music, among the best-selling works of Brahms 40. Liszt: The king of piano virtuosos 41. virtuosity: performance skills far beyond the norm 42. lied: German art song 43. atonality: System of tonal organization in which pitches do not focus around a tonic 44. Gesamtkunstwerk: total work of art or work that synthesizes all of the arts 45. Paganini: violin virtuoso who was rumored to have a pact with the devil