Listening for exam 4

Question 1

Bells and then electronic sounds

Answer 1

Edgard Varese, poeme electronique
electronic poem
electronic composition
electronic sounds, pre-recorded sounds
Belgium, Europe

Question 2

Sacred choral music, man and woman

Answer 2

Guillaume Dufay, Nuper rosarum flores
Recently garlands of roses
motet
voices
Florence, Europe

Question 3

soft symphony, light garden music

Answer 3

Joseph Haydn, Symphony No. 94 (“Surprise”), movement 2
symphony
flutes, oboes, bassoons, horns, trumpets, timpani, violin, viola, cello, bass
England, Europe

Question 4

intense orchestral music opening

Answer 4

Richard Wagner, Prelude to Act 1, from Parsifal
opera overture
flutes, oboes, English horn, clarinets, bass clarinet, bassoons, contrabassoon, horns, trumpet, tenor trombones, bass trombones, timpani, violin, viola, cello, bass
Germany, Europe

Question 5

clanging cymbals and biphonic singing

Answer 5

Melody for Mahakala
dbyang
voices, drum, cymbals, rag-dung
Tibet, Asia

Question 6

eh oba lube

Answer 6

Chango
toque
voices, iya, itotele, okonkolo, atchere
Cuba, North America

Question 7

collective moaning with bells

Answer 7

Excerpt from Ethiopian Christmas ritual
zema
voices, sistra, kebaro
Ethiopia, Africa

Question 8

solo male singer, very loud and abrasive

Answer 8

Yome Fesseha kone
"There is Joy Today"
qum zema (angregari)
voice (Liqa Berhanu)
Ethiopia, Africa

Question 9

solo male singer, soft

Answer 9

Yome fesseha kone 
"There is Joy Today"
qum zema (angregari)
voice (Father Tsehai)
Ethiopian diaspora, North America

Question 10

can you try it, singing with class

Answer 10

Yome fesseha kone
"There is Joy Today"
qum zema (angregari)
voices (Father Tsehai and Harvard class)
Ethiopian diaspora, north America

Question 11

women cheering and singing with drums

Answer 11

Kasamay Waradat
"He Descended from Heaven"
Sunday School song
voices, kebaro
Ethiopian diaspora, North America