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Music: An Appreciation: An Appreciation, Brief 4/e
Roger Kamien, Hebrew University

The Romantic Period
Johannes Brahms

Multiple Choice Quiz

Please answer all questions



1

Brahms's works, though very personal in style, are rooted in the music of
A)Joseph Haydn
B)Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
C)Ludwig van Beethoven
D)all of the above
2

Brahms's musical trademarks included
A)bombastic flamboyance
B)the use of two notes against three
C)the use of da capo arias
D)all of the above
3

The original source for the theme of the fourth movement of Brahms's Fourth Symphony was a
A)piece for wind instruments
B)cantata by J. S. Bach
C)song by Brahms
D)piano piece by Clara Schumann
4

The course of Brahms's artistic and personal life was shaped by the influence of the composer
A)Antonin Dvorák
B)Richard Wagner
C)Franz Liszt
D)Robert Schumann and his wife Clara
5

The fourth movement of Brahms's Fourth Symphony is a _________, a baroque variation form.
A)passamezzo
B)passionato
C)passacaglia
D)passaggio