Assignment Four Name________________
Romantic period Section_______________

1. Name the composer and title of an art song cited in the text for one
singer who sounds like four different characters and a pianist whose
accompaniment conveys the action and drama of the story.
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2. Name the composer and title of a piano piece that is a cycle of
miniatures with descriptive titles representing various characters from an
imaginary masquerade party. ______________ ______________

3. Who is the only great composer who, for the most part, wrote only solo
piano music? _______________

4. Name two Romantic Period composers who were traditional classicists:
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5. Name three Romantic Period composers who were untraditional
revolutionaries: _____________________
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6. Name a composer who was a revolutionary, racist, alcoholic, gambler,
philanderer and free loader, whose monumental contribution to music
was a huge influence on other composers and the advancement of
harmony. _______________

7. What self-critical composer wrote piano pieces, songs, chamber
music, choral music (including a Requiem) concertos, four symphonies
and is often ranked with Bach and Beethoven as a great composer?
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8. Name three people in order: a composer who loved a pianist who was
married to his composer friend who attempted suicide.
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9. Name a Czechoslovakian composer and the complete title of his
popular composition that includes Native American and African
American musical idioms.
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10.Name the Russian composer who wrote The Nutcracker, Swan Lake,
Sleeping Beauty, Romeo and Juliet and the Piano Concerto No. 1 in
B-Flat Minor: _____________________

11.List the Russian composer’s complete last name who wrote
Scheherazade.___________________________________

12.Name the Russian composer who wrote Night on Bald Mountain and
Pictures at an Exhibition:_____________________

13.Name the Russian composer who wrote the Polovtsian Dances:
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14.Name the composer and his five-movement composition inspired by a
young actress, which uses an “idee fixe” – a recurrent theme
representing different versions of his loved one which haunts him
continually._______________ _______________________________

15.This Hungarian-born handsome, long-haired, magnetic young man
performed superhuman feats at the piano, was irresistible to women,
overwhelmed the European public and invented the tone poem.
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16.What composer’s music is full of rich harmonies with thirds and sixths,
two against three cross rhythms and mellow, lyrical warmth with dark,
rich tone colors, favoring instruments like the viola, clarinet and horn?
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17.Who composed the “Unfinished Symphony”? _____________________

18.What late Romantic Wagnerian opera is very chromatic, constantly
modulates, delays resolutions, is full of suspensions and other
non-chord tones – all combining to produce a novel ambiguous kind of
tonality that expresses a yearning and unfulfilled desire by evoking, yet
evading traditional harmonic expectations? _______________________

19.A famous Mendelssohn concert overture is incidental music to what
Shakespeare play? _________________________________________

20.Extreme expansion in rhythm, melody, harmony, pitch, dynamics, tone
color, orchestration, performance technique, forms, styles, expression
and emotionalism happened most notably in music of the

A – Middle Ages

B – Renaissance

C – Baroque period

D – Classical period

E – Romantic period

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