A) The Rite of Spring B) The Sleeping Beauty C) Swan Lake D) Romeo and Juliet
A) Glinka B) Beethoven C) Berlioz D) Liszt
A) Nadezhda von Meck B) Herman Laroche C) Igor Stravinsky D) Mikhail Glinka
A) The Five Academy B) Russian National School C) Moscow Conservatory D) Saint Petersburg Conservatory
A) Stravinsky and Glinka B) Bach and Brahms C) Beethoven and Mozart D) Liszt and Berlioz
A) Stravinsky B) Liszt C) Glinka D) Laroche
A) His popularity in the West B) His use of folk songs C) His Russian heritage D) His professionalism and high standards
A) Solomon Volkov B) Herman Laroche C) Nadezhda von Meck D) Anthony Holden
A) Igor Stravinsky B) Tchaikovsky C) Herman Laroche D) Mikhail Glinka
A) The Sleeping Beauty B) The Rite of Spring C) Symphony No. 6 D) Romeo and Juliet
A) A forgotten relic B) A major barrier C) A secondary influence D) The sole bridge
A) Because he rejected all Western practices B) Due to his use of complex mathematical theory C) With an immediacy and directness D) Because of his political status
A) Improvisation B) Repetition C) Silence D) Dissonance
A) Modulation B) Phrasing C) Sequences D) Doubling
A) The volume becomes too quiet B) The melody remains static C) The harmony becomes chaotic D) The tempo becomes too fast
A) Using only one instrument B) Ignoring rhythmic activity C) Treating elements as one integrated unit D) Avoiding key modulations
A) Martin Cooper B) Richard Taruskin C) Brown D) Rimsky-Korsakov
A) Glinka B) Rimsky-Korsakov C) Martin Cooper D) Brown
A) Minimalistic and stark B) Sensual opulence C) Dry and academic D) Aggressively discordant
A) Third Symphony B) Second Symphony C) Fourth Symphony D) First Symphony
A) Rimsky-Korsakov B) Martin Cooper C) Brown D) Richard Taruskin
A) Italian B) Slavic C) French D) Germanic
A) Modulation B) Sequencing C) Doubling D) Phasing
A) A generalized orchestral sonority B) A reduction in volume C) A loss of tonal center D) A focus on soloistic performance
A) By using silence B) By making subtle changes in rhythm or phrasing C) By increasing the volume drastically D) By stopping the music abruptly
A) 53 B) 63 C) 50 D) 43
A) Smolensky Cemetery B) Novodevichy Cemetery C) Tikhvin Cemetery D) Volkovo Cemetery
A) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart B) Mikhail Glinka C) Ludwig van Beethoven D) Robert Schumann
A) Pneumonia B) Cholera C) Poisoning D) Heart failure
A) Robert Schumann B) Richard Wagner C) Franz Liszt D) Adolphe Adam
A) Adolphe Adam B) Georges Bizet C) Franz Lachner D) Léo Delibes
A) Ivan IV B) The Pearl Fishers C) The Fair Maid of Perth D) Carmen
A) 6 November 1890 B) 20 December 1893 C) 6 November 1893 D) 12 October 1893
A) Little Russian symphony B) The Queen of Spades C) Vakula the Smith D) Variations on a Rococo Theme
A) Alexander Borodin B) Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov C) Anton Rubinstein D) Mily Balakirev
A) Georges Bizet B) Adolphe Adam C) Léo Delibes D) Franz Lachner
A) That he was murdered B) That he faked his death C) That he committed suicide D) That he died of natural causes
A) The composer destroyed it B) It was stolen by a rival C) It was lost in a fire D) It was never finished
A) Rimsky-Korsakov B) Dostoevsky C) Mussorgsky D) Cui
A) Nikolai Gogol's Christmas Eve B) A libretto by Sergei Rachinskii C) The memoirs of Alexander II D) A play by Alexander Ostrovsky
A) Eugene Onegin B) Undina C) The Oprichnik D) Vakula the Smith
A) Alexander Ostrovsky B) Fyodor Dostoevsky C) Eugène Scribe D) Nikolai Gogol
A) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky B) Mily Balakirev C) Anton Rubinstein D) Modest Mussorgsky
A) Musical Society B) Russian Conservatory C) Mighty Handful D) Western Reformers
A) Little Russian B) The Conservatory Symphony C) The Jurisprudence Symphony D) The Mighty Handful
A) The School of Jurisprudence B) The Mighty Handful C) A nationalist opera house D) The Russian Musical Society
A) Rimsky-Korsakov B) Mussorgsky C) Borodin D) Cui
A) Titular counselor B) Junior clerk C) Senior assistant D) Civil attaché
A) The Mikhailovsky Palace B) A tribute to the Tsar C) The Russian Musical Society D) Friedrich Schiller's Ode to Joy
A) Bayreuth B) Pavlovsk Park C) Saint Petersburg D) Moscow
A) 100 rubles B) 50 rubles C) 200 rubles D) 25 rubles
A) Nikolai Rubinstein B) Anton Rubinstein C) Johann Strauss II D) Nikolai Zaremba
A) Bad staging B) Overrated status C) Lack of musicality D) Poor orchestration
A) Der Ring des Nibelungen B) First Symphony C) Ode to Joy D) The Voyevoda
A) Kyiv B) Moscow C) Saint Petersburg D) Votkinsk
A) d'Assier B) Davydova C) von Meck D) Miliukova
A) Maria Palchikova B) Nadezhda von Meck C) Antonina Miliukova D) Fanny Dürbach
A) Seven B) Six C) Four D) Five
A) Physician B) Professional pianist C) Military engineer D) Civil servant
A) Modest Tchaikovsky B) Vladimir Davydov C) Nikolai Rubinstein D) Anatoly Tchaikovsky
A) 1812 Overture B) First Piano Concerto C) Eugene Onegin D) The Nutcracker
A) Orchestrion B) Harmonium C) Cembalo D) Fortepiano
A) The Saint Petersburg Seven B) The Nationalist Trio C) The Five D) The Powerless
A) Cherevichki B) Eugene Onegin C) Swan Lake D) The Nutcracker
A) The Mariinsky Theatre was under renovation B) Tchaikovsky's music was replacing Italian opera C) The Mariinsky Theatre was being closed down D) Tchaikovsky preferred the acoustic quality of the Bolshoi
A) Ivan Vsevolozhsky B) Antonín Dvořák C) César Cui D) Sergei Taneyev
A) Jules Massenet B) César Cui C) Ivan Vsevolozhsky D) Sergei Taneyev
A) 1887–1888 B) 1884–1885 C) 1889–1890 D) 1891–1892
A) Tchaikovsky himself B) Sergei Rachmaninoff C) Brahms D) Rimsky-Korsakov
A) The Queen of Spades B) Cherevichki C) Eugene Onegin D) Hamlet
A) Unsocial behavior B) Fear of public speaking C) Financial instability D) Life-long stage fright
A) 1891 B) 1888 C) 1889 D) 1885
A) Cherevichki B) Orchestral Suite No. 3 C) Festival Coronation March D) Hamlet
A) Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre B) Moscow Conservatory C) Mariinsky Theatre D) Carnegie Hall
A) The Russian Symphony Society B) The Five C) Belyayev circle D) The Imperial Conservatory Group
A) Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov B) Alexander Glazunov C) Mark Antokolsky D) Anatoly Lyadov
A) Nadezhda von Meck B) Antonina Miliukova C) Sergey Kireyev D) Vladimir Davydov
A) Alexander Poznansky B) Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov C) Modest Tchaikovsky D) David Brown
A) Professional Soldier B) Merchant C) Composer D) Government Official
A) More at ease B) Indifferent C) Less comfortable D) More hostile
A) They were censored B) They were immediately published C) They were burned by Tchaikovsky himself D) They were lost in a fire
A) A disaster B) A happy long-term partnership C) A quiet separation D) A professional collaboration
A) 37 B) 45 C) 30 D) 21
A) Harold C. Schonberg B) Joseph Haydn C) The New Grove D) Rudolph Kündinger
A) Whole-tone scale B) String quartet C) Sonata form D) Russian tableaux
A) A member of The Five B) Rudolph Kündinger C) The New Grove D) Harold C. Schonberg
A) Symmetrical melodic shapes B) Whole-tone scale C) Sonata form modulation D) Western-style stasis
A) Stasis B) Repetition C) Inertia D) Modulation
A) A purely experimental, avant-garde meter B) A meter based on silence and pauses C) An inconsistent, fluctuating meter D) A firm, regular meter
A) Pushkin B) Tolstoy C) Dostoevsky D) Chekhov
A) A political manifesto B) A religious experience C) A technical study of acoustics D) A psychological mirror
A) Passé-ism B) Formalism C) Neoclassicism D) Romantic excess
A) Wilhelm Fitzenhagen B) Nikolai Rubinstein C) Leopold Auer D) Marius Petipa
A) Ivan Vsevolozhsky B) Wilhelm Fitzenhagen C) Leopold Auer D) Marius Petipa
A) Abandoned 18th-century settings B) Minimized rhythmic subtleties C) Removed all melodic elements D) Increased structural complexity
A) Hollow B) Intellectually rigorous C) Revolutionary D) Technically flawed
A) Julius Block B) Leonid Sabaneyev C) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky D) Thomas Edison
A) Leonid Sabaneyev B) The Russian Conservatory C) Julius Block D) Thomas Edison
A) Tchaikovsky himself B) Leonid Sabaneyev C) Julius Block D) Thomas Edison
A) Indifferent B) Uncomfortable C) Honored D) Enthusiastic |