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1
What ruled the arts in 19th century western European and American culture?
A)tonal harmony
B)programmatic ideals
C)expansion of the unconscious in art
D)romanticism
2
What particular country had an aesthetic stronghold in culture?
A)France
B)Germany
C)United States
D)England
3
What aesthetic gripped late 19th century arts?
A)nationalism
B)pictorialism
C)phantasma
D)all of the above
4
Though largely ignored for their artistic achievements, Americans were admired for:
A)mechanical and industrials achievements
B)frontiering the West
C)cultivating the natural resources of America
D)the exported minstrel shows
5
In Kentucky, which composer lived alone in a log cabin?
A)Philip Hale
B)Virgil Thomson
C)Anthony Philip Heinrich
D)none of the above
6
Jenny Lind was promoted by:
A)Philip Hale
B)P. T. Barnum
C)Jessie Cooke
D)Ole Bull`
7
The most successful pianist of the late 19th century was:
A)Ole Bull
B)Anton Rubenstein
C)Louis Moreau Gottrschalk
D)Ignace Paderewski
8
Chopin predicted that Gottschalk would one day be:
A)"poet of the piano"
B)"lion of the American States"
C)"lyricist of the keyboard"
D)"king of the pianists."
9
Because it provides access to every facet of emotion, what instrument is ideally suited for Romantic music?
A)the voice
B)the violin
C)the violoncello
D)the piano
10
Louis Juillen was a famous:
A)tenor
B)opera promoter
C)conductor
D)impresario
11
Leonora, the first opera written in the United States was composed by:
A)Louis Juillen
B)Louis Moreau Gottschalk
C)George Bristow
D)William Henry Fry
12
The first person to rigorously train orchestral musicians, hire only the best musicians and present public programs guaranteed to please an audience was:
A)Leonard Bernstein
B)William Henry Fry
C)Louis Juillen
D)Theodore Thomas
13
Theodore Thomas help build this Symphony Orchestra:
A)Boston
B)Chicago
C)New York
D)Washington National





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