Robert Schumann's A Poet's Love is set to texts by:
  • A Poet's Love
  • all of the above
  • Heinrich Heine.
  • True
Schumann wrote his song cycle A Poet's Love during his "year of song," in which he wrote hundreds of Lieder and also married Clara Schumann.
  • True
  • False
The composer who founded the New Journal of Music was:
  • Vienna
  • Robert Schumann.
  • Heinrich Heine
  • Schubertiads.
A group of Lieder unified by some narrative thread or a descriptive or expressive theme is called:
  • through-composed.
  • A Poet's Love
  • a song cycle.
  • a Lied.
The favorite Romantic poets for the composers of Lieder were:
  • Heinrich Heine.
  • Goethe and Heine.
  • love, longing, and nature.
  • A Poet's Love
The favorite subjects for the Romantic poets were:
  • love, longing, and nature.
  • praise of the Virgin Mary
  • Goethe and Heine.
  • high range and dissonance
Which of the following does NOT describe Schumann's "In the lovely month of May"?
  • the galloping of the horse.
  • It tells a detailed story of a lost love.
  • It ends with harmonic resolution.
  • Goethe and Heine.
The form of Schubert's Lied Elfking is through-composed.
  • True
  • False
Robert Schumann was married to the gifted pianist and composer Clara Wieck.
  • True
  • False
In Schubert's Elfking, the obsessive triplet rhythm of the piano accompaniment represents:
  • It ends with harmonic resolution.
  • high range and dissonance
  • the galloping of the horse.
  • through-composed.
Schubert wrote several song cycles, including:
  • Vienna
  • Winter's Journey.
  • True
  • Heinrich Heine
Schumann's A Poet's Love is a:
  • through-composed
  • Heinrich Heine.
  • song cycle.
  • strophic
A song structure that is composed from beginning to end without repetition of whole sections is called:
  • through-composed
  • strophic
  • through-composed.
  • True
Schumann was a carefree spirit with a happy disposition who lived a long, productive life as a composer.
  • True
  • False
The rise of the piano as a household instrument influenced the popularity of the Lied.
  • True
  • False
Robert Schumann's wife, Clara, was:
  • A Poet's Love
  • all of the above
  • True
  • praise of the Virgin Mary
A song in which the same melody is repeated with every stanza of the text is in strophic form.
  • True
  • False
Which of the following does NOT describe Schumann's A Poet's Love?
  • all of the above
  • praise of the Virgin Mary
  • It ends with harmonic resolution.
  • It tells a detailed story of a lost love.
What is the form of "In the lovely month of May"?
  • strophic
  • Heinrich Heine.
  • all of the above
  • praise of the Virgin Mary
A German-texted song with piano accompaniment that sets a short lyric poem is called:
  • a Lied.
  • Lied
  • False
  • True
Which musical devices help to portray the child's terror in Elfking?
  • love, longing, and nature.
  • It tells a detailed story of a lost love.
  • It ends with harmonic resolution.
  • high range and dissonance
Franz Schubert was a thoroughly Romantic composer whose music abandoned the forms and stylistic principles of Classicism.
  • True
  • False
The German term for the art song is:
  • True
  • a Lied.
  • Lied
  • False
Schumann concentrated on intimate piano and vocal works and wrote no symphonies.
  • True
  • False
Schubert organized evening gatherings of artists, writers, and musicians, called:
  • Schubertiads.
  • Vienna
  • Winter's Journey.
  • Robert Schumann.
Goethe and Heine were two of the leading nineteenth-century writers whose poetry was set by Lieder composers.
  • True
  • False
____________ is NOT an important composer of nineteenth-century Lieder.
  • Heinrich Heine
  • Vienna
  • True
  • Winter's Journey.
A song form where the main melody is repeated for two or three stanzas but has new or significantly varied material introduced when the text requires it is called:
  • False
  • through-composed.
  • modified strophic.
  • strophic
In which form is the Lied Elfking?
  • all of the above
  • through-composed.
  • through-composed
  • song cycle.
The song form that combines features of strophic and through-composed forms is called modified strophic.
  • True
  • False
The poem Elfking was written by Heinrich Heine.
  • True
  • False
Schubert's song Elfking was a setting of the ballad written by:
  • A Poet's Love
  • False
  • True
  • Goethe
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