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> Welcome to Romanticism
101, a collection of teaching resources designed
to help students learn and act upon Romanticism. Based on the texts
included in this website, the quizzes and assignments included will
allow students to familiarize themselves with the Romantic movement
in different expressive mediums. Resources are separated into sections,
to allow for more specific learning.
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The
Movement
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Literature
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Music
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Art
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Drama
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Music
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Multiple
Choice:
1. What distinguishes Romantic
music from other forms of music?
a) Romantic composers included wide leaps of sixths, sevenths, and other
augmented intervals
b) Romantic composers freely broke away from traditional Classic rhythm
and three types of cross-rhythms were used.
c) Romantic composers often used the minor mode
d) Romantic composers used counterpoint
e) all of the above
2. What did Romantic music
stress the importance of?
a) Individualism
b) Conventionalism
c) Injustice
d) Form
e) Love
3. Which of the following
ballet is the epitome of Romanticism?
a) La Sylphide
b) Giselle
c) Coppélia
d) Swan Lake
e) Sleeping Beauty
4. Why was the Romantic
music movement later than other Romantic movements?
a) The deaths of Weber, Beethoven, and Schubert allowed young composers
to rise to fame
b) The piano wasn't invented until 1919
c) Due to the poverty of Europe, many could not afford to enjoy music
d) It was only till later that women could perform music, which had
a significant influence on the music movement
e) none of the above
5. How can one differ Romantic
work from others?
a) It has choppy sequences and is significantly different from Classicism
b) It is smooth and flows with constant meter
c) It is a composition in which the artist gives himself up to the dominion
of the imagination, considering all means as good
d) It is a composition that is highly personal and emotional in which
an artist contributes by adding his/her own voice in the piece
e) Its titles often have to do with emotions such as love
6. Which of the following
associations of Romantic authors and Romantic music is true?
a) Authors used music to stimulate thought and imagination
b) Some authors felt music was the highest form of artistic expression
c) Some authors felt that music was a synaesthesia where colors and
tones combined to produce a dream-like effect
d) all of the above
e) none of the above as Romantic authors had nothing to do with Romantic
music
7. Which of the following
statements is TRUE about Romantic Ballet?
I. It was during that time that women started to dominate ballet and
men functioned to support the ballerina
II. the Romantic ballerina was "elusive, fascinating, mocking vision,
half woman, half goddess, which haunted the imaginations of poets, painters,
writers, and musicians"
III. It was the movement that motivated later artists to create Swan
Lake, the Nutcracker, and Sleeping Beautya)
I only
b) II only
c) III only
d) II and III
e) I, II, III
8. How did counterpoint
change?
a) It did not change
b) It became more important
c) It was very important to the Romantic composer
d) It increased in length
e) It developed into something totally different
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