Composition - Symphonie fanstique - p. 99-102

Question 1

Answer the following questions for the excerpt:

1. Title of the entire piece
2. What’s the form of the entire piece?
3. Name of this movement
4. Name of this specific excerpt
5. Name two of the three instruments in this excerpt?
6. Who is the composer?

Answer 1

1. Symphonie fantastique
2. Program Symphony
3. Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath
4. Dies irae
5. bassoon, ophicleide and bells
6. Berlioz

Question 2

Answer the following questions for the excerpt:

1. Title of the entire piece
2. What’s the form of the entire piece?
3. Name of this movement
4. Name of this specific excerpt
5. Name the instrument in this excerpt?
6. Who is the composer?

Answer 2

1. Symphonie fantastique
2. Program Symphony
3. Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath
4. idee fixe (the beloved)
5. Clarinet
6. Berlioz

Question 3

Answer the following questions for the excerpt:

1. Title of the entire piece
2. What’s the form of the entire piece?
3. Name of this movement
4. Name of this specific excerpt
5. What is the fugal texture in this excerpt?
6. What string technique is used?
7. Who is the composer?

Answer 3

1. Symphonie fantastique
2. Program Symphony
3. Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath
4. Dance of the Witches
5. Fugal texture
6. Col legno
7. Berlioz

Question 4

Put these movements in order:

A Ball
Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath
March to the Scaffold
Scene in the Fields
Reveries, Passions

Answer 4

I - Reveries
II - A Ball
III - Scene in the Fields
IV - March to the Scaffold
V - Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath

Question 5

Who does the ‘beloved’ represent?

Answer 5

Harriet Smithson

Question 6

Who is Harriet Smithson and what is her role in Symphonie Fanastique?

Answer 6

Berlioz fell in love with Harriet Smithson. He composed Symphonie fanstique with her in mind.

Question 7

What is the term for the following definition:

• a 19th century multi-movement orchestral work that has descriptive title and often has accompanying text that outlines the program

Answer 7

program symphony

Question 8

What is the term for the following definition:

Berlioz came up with this term and it’s French for ‘fixed idea”. It’s a recurrent theme that links the multi-movements. In symphonie fantastique, it represents ‘the beloved’

Answer 8

idee fixe

Question 9

What is an obsolete brass instrument that is the predecessor of the tuba?

Where/how is it used in Symphonie fantastique?

Answer 9

Ophicleide
In symphony fantastique, this instrument (and bassoons) play the dies irae

Question 10

What is the term for the following definition:
This term is Italian for “with the wood”. Berlioz used this new string effect in which the plays tap the strings with the wooden parts of their bows.

Answer 10

col legno

Question 11

What is the term that means “day of wrath” in Latin? It’s a monophonic chant and used in requiem (mass for the dead). The music is associated with funerals.

Answer 11

Dies irae

Question 12

What is program symphony?

Answer 12

• a 19th century multi-movement orchestral work that has descriptive title and often has accompanying text that outlines the program

Question 13

What is idee fixe?

Answer 13

Berlioz came up with this term. it’s French for ‘fixed idea”. It’s a recurrent theme that links the multi-movements. In symphonie fantastique, it represents ‘the beloved’

Question 14

What is col legno?

Answer 14

This term is Italian for “with the wood”. Berlioz used this new string effect in which the plays tap the strings with the wooden parts of their bows.

Question 15

What is Dies irae?

Answer 15

It’s a monophonic chant and used in requiem (mass for the dead). The music is associated with funerals.