Auditory Fine Arts

Question 1

Fifteenth string quartet consists of six adagio movements, Eighth has a DSCH cryptogram

Answer 1

Shostakovich

Question 2

Depicted the marching of broomsticks in his “The Sorcerer’s apprentice”

Answer 2

Paul Dukas

Question 3

Symphony that includes the Hebrides Overture, tries to imitate Male warriors

Answer 3

Scottish Symphony

Question 4

Attacked in the article “Muddle instead of Music”

Answer 4

Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District

Question 5

Wrote the opera “Ariadne and Bluebeard”

Answer 5

Paul Dukas

Question 6

Schoenberg work named after a Clown, commissioned by Albertine Zehme

Answer 6

Pierrot Lunaire

Question 7

Aria “When I am laid in Earth” in this opera, begins with a woman being sad about the death of her husband Sychaeus

Answer 7

Dido and Aeneas

Question 8

Symphony that quotes from “Merry Widow”, C major woodwind crescendo in 4th movement

Answer 8

Leningrad symphony

Question 9

Composer of “In the South” and an E Minor “Serenade for Strings”

Answer 9

Edward Elgar

Question 10

Ballet about a supernatural man who is killed by robbers, by Bartok

Answer 10

Miraculous Mandarin

Question 11

“Witches’ Dance” and “Sailors’ Dance” in one of his operas after Aeneas leaves

Answer 11

Henry Purcell

Question 12

WOodwinds imitate a stutter in this piece, possibly based off of Auld Lang Syne

Answer 12

Enigma Variations

Question 13

Ballet about a magistrate trying to seduce a miller’s wife, dances “The Grapes” and “Neighbors”

Answer 13

Three Cornered Hat

Question 14

Composer of the Piano suite “Iberia”, Tango in D became a guitar suite

Answer 14

Isaac Albeniz

Question 15

Composer of “Tale of Tsar Sultan” and “Sadko”

Answer 15

Nicolai Rimsky-Korsokov

Question 16

Symphony describing a visit to Naples that ends with a saltarello

Answer 16

Italian symphony

Question 17

“Philosopher’s Scherzo” and a “March of Destiny” are often added to this piece, “Rosamunde” is thought to have been the finale

Answer 17

Unfinished symphony

Question 18

Includes movements such as “Festival at Baghdad” and “The Sea and Sinbad’s ship”

Answer 18

Scheherazade

Question 19

Ends with clarinet obe and flute cadenzas pretending to be birds, “Scene by the brook” movement

Answer 19

Pastoral Symphony (Beethoven no.6)

Question 20

Based on a poem by George Meredith, dedicated to Marie Hall

Answer 20

Lark Ascending