CLEP Humanities : Answering Other Questions About Romantic Music
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Example Question #61 : Performing Arts
Frederic Chopin is most well known for his compositions for the __________.
guitar
violin
piano
flute
harpsichord
piano
Frederic Chopin was a Polish-born composer of the Romantic Era, who was a child prodigy on the piano and began composing in his teens. As an adult, he moved to Paris, France, and became a well known composer of works for the piano, both solo and as a featured member of an ensemble.
Example Question #62 : Performing Arts
The mandolin is a fretted instrument with four double courses of strings tuned similarly to a __________.
bass
viola
violin
cello
guitar
violin
The mandolin is the most famous member of the "mando" family that also includes the mandola and mandocello, among other instruments. The instruments in this family all have double courses of four strings, meaning that each string is paired with an exact twin, that is the same size and tuned to the same note. A mandolin is tuned just like a violin, while the mandola and mandocello are tuned like the viola and cello, respectively.
Example Question #63 : Performing Arts
Pyotr Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture utilizes as musical motifs the national anthems of __________.
Germany and Russia
Germany and France
Poland and Germany
France and Russia
Great Britain and Russia
France and Russia
Tchaikovsky's 1880 masterpiece commemorates the Russian defense of the French invasion of 1812 during the Napoleonic Wars. Anachronistically, though, both anthems Tchaikovsky used to represent each army were not used during the 1812 invasion. Napoleon had banned "La Marseillaise" in 1805, and "God Save The Tsar" was not even written in 1812.
Example Question #3 : Answering Other Questions About Romantic Music
Which of the following songs were not written by the nineteenth-century American songwriter Stephen Foster?
"My Old Kentucky Home"
"Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair"
"Oh, Susanna"
"Dixie"
"Camptown Races"
"Dixie"
Stephen Foster (1826-1864) is considered the "Father of American Music" for his many famous and influential compositions, including "Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair," "My Old Kentucky Home," "Camptown Races," and "Oh, Susanna." Despite Foster's immense fame both at the time and in the years since, he was actually part of a broader popular music explosion thanks to sheet music's development. Among the other popular songs of the time was Daniel Decatur Emmet's "Dixie," from 1859.
Example Question #64 : Performing Arts
Which of the following instruments is NOT a brass instrument?
Saxophone
Trumpet
Sousaphone
Cornet
Tuba
Saxophone
Brass instruments, while deriving their name from the material they are usually made from, are not defined by the material from which they are composed. Instead, brass instruments are united by the the way air enters the instruments, and are each further controlled by a limited number of valves. A saxophone, despite its construction, is a woodwind due to its use of reeds and a series of tone holes the player can open and close.
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