Deck 8: The Musical Stage: Opera, Music, Drama, Dance

Question 1

____ 1. A contemporary musical deals with the formerly off-limits topic of mental illness.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

____ 2. Ragtime rhythm is so rapid that many pianists cannot play it.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Spring Awakening
2. libretto
3. ring
4. modern
5. Figaro
6. medal
7. romantic opera
8. Of Thee I Sing
9. singspiel
10. Scott Joplin
11. "Ol' Man River"
12. Pal Joey
13. George Balanchine
14. Mikhail Baryshnikov
15. GiuseppeVerdi
16. Swan Lake
17. George Gershwin
18. barber
19. choreographer
20. Orpheus
21. Zeus
___ profession of Agnes de Mille

Answer 3

19

Question 4

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Spring Awakening
2. libretto
3. ring
4. modern
5. Figaro
6. medal
7. romantic opera
8. Of Thee I Sing
9. singspiel
10. Scott Joplin
11. "Ol' Man River"
12. Pal Joey
13. George Balanchine
14. Mikhail Baryshnikov
15. GiuseppeVerdi
16. Swan Lake
17. George Gershwin
18. barber
19. choreographer
20. Orpheus
21. Zeus
___ Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky

Question 5

____ 3. Music drama can be traced back at least 1,000 years.

Question 6

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Spring Awakening
2. libretto
3. ring
4. modern
5. Figaro
6. medal
7. romantic opera
8. Of Thee I Sing
9. singspiel
10. Scott Joplin
11. "Ol' Man River"
12. Pal Joey
13. George Balanchine
14. Mikhail Baryshnikov
15. GiuseppeVerdi
16. Swan Lake
17. George Gershwin
18. barber
19. choreographer
20. Orpheus
21. Zeus
___ Monteverdi and Gluck both wrote operas about this figure from Greek myth

Question 7

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Spring Awakening
2. libretto
3. ring
4. modern
5. Figaro
6. medal
7. romantic opera
8. Of Thee I Sing
9. singspiel
10. Scott Joplin
11. "Ol' Man River"
12. Pal Joey
13. George Balanchine
14. Mikhail Baryshnikov
15. GiuseppeVerdi
16. Swan Lake
17. George Gershwin
18. barber
19. choreographer
20. Orpheus
21. Zeus
___ blends tragic drama with a rock score

Question 8

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Spring Awakening
2. libretto
3. ring
4. modern
5. Figaro
6. medal
7. romantic opera
8. Of Thee I Sing
9. singspiel
10. Scott Joplin
11. "Ol' Man River"
12. Pal Joey
13. George Balanchine
14. Mikhail Baryshnikov
15. GiuseppeVerdi
16. Swan Lake
17. George Gershwin
18. barber
19. choreographer
20. Orpheus
21. Zeus
___ object central to plot of Wagner's four-opera cycle

Question 9

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Spring Awakening
2. libretto
3. ring
4. modern
5. Figaro
6. medal
7. romantic opera
8. Of Thee I Sing
9. singspiel
10. Scott Joplin
11. "Ol' Man River"
12. Pal Joey
13. George Balanchine
14. Mikhail Baryshnikov
15. GiuseppeVerdi
16. Swan Lake
17. George Gershwin
18. barber
19. choreographer
20. Orpheus
21. Zeus
___ opera dialogue that is half sung, half spoken

Question 10

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Spring Awakening
2. libretto
3. ring
4. modern
5. Figaro
6. medal
7. romantic opera
8. Of Thee I Sing
9. singspiel
10. Scott Joplin
11. "Ol' Man River"
12. Pal Joey
13. George Balanchine
14. Mikhail Baryshnikov
15. GiuseppeVerdi
16. Swan Lake
17. George Gershwin
18. barber
19. choreographer
20. Orpheus
21. Zeus
___ Showboat

Question 11

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Spring Awakening
2. libretto
3. ring
4. modern
5. Figaro
6. medal
7. romantic opera
8. Of Thee I Sing
9. singspiel
10. Scott Joplin
11. "Ol' Man River"
12. Pal Joey
13. George Balanchine
14. Mikhail Baryshnikov
15. GiuseppeVerdi
16. Swan Lake
17. George Gershwin
18. barber
19. choreographer
20. Orpheus
21. Zeus
___ early developer of American ballet

Question 12

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Spring Awakening
2. libretto
3. ring
4. modern
5. Figaro
6. medal
7. romantic opera
8. Of Thee I Sing
9. singspiel
10. Scott Joplin
11. "Ol' Man River"
12. Pal Joey
13. George Balanchine
14. Mikhail Baryshnikov
15. GiuseppeVerdi
16. Swan Lake
17. George Gershwin
18. barber
19. choreographer
20. Orpheus
21. Zeus
___ like Nureyev and Nijinsky

Question 13

____ 4. West Side Story is based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

Question 14

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Spring Awakening
2. libretto
3. ring
4. modern
5. Figaro
6. medal
7. romantic opera
8. Of Thee I Sing
9. singspiel
10. Scott Joplin
11. "Ol' Man River"
12. Pal Joey
13. George Balanchine
14. Mikhail Baryshnikov
15. GiuseppeVerdi
16. Swan Lake
17. George Gershwin
18. barber
19. choreographer
20. Orpheus
21. Zeus
___ Giuseppe Verdi

Question 15

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Spring Awakening
2. libretto
3. ring
4. modern
5. Figaro
6. medal
7. romantic opera
8. Of Thee I Sing
9. singspiel
10. Scott Joplin
11. "Ol' Man River"
12. Pal Joey
13. George Balanchine
14. Mikhail Baryshnikov
15. GiuseppeVerdi
16. Swan Lake
17. George Gershwin
18. barber
19. choreographer
20. Orpheus
21. Zeus
___ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Question 16

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Spring Awakening
2. libretto
3. ring
4. modern
5. Figaro
6. medal
7. romantic opera
8. Of Thee I Sing
9. singspiel
10. Scott Joplin
11. "Ol' Man River"
12. Pal Joey
13. George Balanchine
14. Mikhail Baryshnikov
15. GiuseppeVerdi
16. Swan Lake
17. George Gershwin
18. barber
19. choreographer
20. Orpheus
21. Zeus
___ dance genre associated with Martha Graham

Question 17

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Spring Awakening
2. libretto
3. ring
4. modern
5. Figaro
6. medal
7. romantic opera
8. Of Thee I Sing
9. singspiel
10. Scott Joplin
11. "Ol' Man River"
12. Pal Joey
13. George Balanchine
14. Mikhail Baryshnikov
15. GiuseppeVerdi
16. Swan Lake
17. George Gershwin
18. barber
19. choreographer
20. Orpheus
21. Zeus
___ profession of Sweeney Todd

Question 18

____ 5. The New York City Ballet was founded by dancer and choreographer Martha Graham.

Question 19

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Spring Awakening
2. libretto
3. ring
4. modern
5. Figaro
6. medal
7. romantic opera
8. Of Thee I Sing
9. singspiel
10. Scott Joplin
11. "Ol' Man River"
12. Pal Joey
13. George Balanchine
14. Mikhail Baryshnikov
15. GiuseppeVerdi
16. Swan Lake
17. George Gershwin
18. barber
19. choreographer
20. Orpheus
21. Zeus
___ composer of Treemonisha

Question 20

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Spring Awakening
2. libretto
3. ring
4. modern
5. Figaro
6. medal
7. romantic opera
8. Of Thee I Sing
9. singspiel
10. Scott Joplin
11. "Ol' Man River"
12. Pal Joey
13. George Balanchine
14. Mikhail Baryshnikov
15. GiuseppeVerdi
16. Swan Lake
17. George Gershwin
18. barber
19. choreographer
20. Orpheus
21. Zeus
___ political satire

Question 21

Porgy's mode of transportation.

A) taxi
B) limousine
C) dogsled
D) goat cart
E) bicycle

Question 22

____ 14. Wagner wanted to rid opera of its standard melodramatic plots.

Question 23

____ 9. Verdi's romantic opera La Traviata(1852) was not an instant success.

Question 24

Which opera concerns a court jester's daughter who is seduced by her father's master?

A) Rigoletto
B) La Traviata
C) Sweeney Todd
D) The Magic Flute
E) The Flying Dutchman

Question 25

____ 8. Choreographer Twyla Tharp combines classical and modern dance with pop music and jazz.

Question 26

____ 13. A gambler, pimp, and drug dealer named Sportin' Life is a deceptively charming character in West Side Story.

Question 27

Modern opera is often rejected by audiences because they believe it lacks

A) melody
B) a convincing plot
C) elaborate orchestration
D) passionate acting
E) heart and soul

Question 28

____ 10. Monteverdi's most famous opera, Rigoletto, is based on the myth of Hercules.

Question 29

Founded by Balanchine:

A) Miami Beach Ballet
B) Les Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo
C) the Metropolitan Opera
D) New York City Ballet
E) Kansas City Academy of Dance.

Question 30

Credited as the first musical to unify plot, characters, songs, and dances.

A) Rigoletto
B) The Rite of Spring
C) Spring Awakening
D) Orfeo y Eurydice
E) Oklahoma!

Question 31

____ 12. As demanded by his producers, Stephen Sondheim gave Sweeney Todd a happy ending.

Question 32

____ 11. Spring Awakening is a ballet composed by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky.

Question 33

Country of Mozart's birth:

A) Germany
B) Austria
C) France
D) Lithuania
E) Romania

Question 34

____ 7. Pal Joey is the first major musical to have an unsympathetic main character.

Question 35

Outwitted by servants in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro:

A) countess
B) count
C) Rigolettos' daughter
D) Alfredo
E) Lorenzo da Ponte

Question 36

German composer Richard Wagner believed Italian opera had made a mistake in

A) including villains such as thieves and murderers
B) making the music more important than the story
C) choosing La Scala as their opera house
D) failing to include enough emotion
E) being too tragic in tone

Question 37

____ 15. Flamenco is a fixture in every Mexican folkloric production.

Question 38

____ 6. The 1975 musical about dancers auditioning for a Broadway musical was called One Singular Sensation.

Question 39

Woman killed in final scene of Sweeney Todd:

A) Mrs. Todd
B) Lady Wishfort
C) the mayor's wife
D) a judge's mistress
E) the kitchen inspector

Question 40

Which of the following was a political radical who took part in protest marches and tried to incorporate his views on liberation into his music?

A) Sweeney Todd
B) Giuseppe Verdi
C) Johann Strauss
D) Richard Wagner
E) J.R.R. Tolkien

Question 41

In Of Thee I Sing, the future First Lady is chosen through a

A) beauty pageant
B) national lottery
C) Supreme Court decision
D) selection by the drunken Speaker of the House
E) consultation with a fake psychic.

Question 42

The early eighteenth-century classical opera, Orefo et Euridice, is

A) precise, rhythmic, and restrained
B) emotional, dramatic, and spontaneous
C) humorous, farcical, and satirical
D) romantic, melodic, and Dionysian
E) melodramatic, two-dimensional, and tear-jerking

Question 43

The students in Spring Awakening are denied all knowledge of

A) U.S. history
B) what was happening in the world
C) modern physics
D) economic determinism
E) sex

Question 44

Not involved in flamenco dancing:

A) guitars
B) violins
C) hand clapping
D) stamping of the feet
E) influence of Hebrew chants
OPEN-BOOK OR TAKE-HOME TEST
The following are answers. Find the appropriate question and state it as such.

Question 45

The time period when American musical comedy flourished:

A) from the Vietnam War through the 1990s
B) the eighteenth century
C) the early 1960s "mod" era
D) the Jazz Age of the 1920s
E) from World War I to the early 1950s