Listening for final

Question 1

Hear, Play….

Answer 1

Milton Babbit, “Play on Notes” 1966

Question 2

Sounds almost like arpeggios on violin, very soft, up and down passed to pianist

Answer 2

Violin Concerto Alban Berg 1935

Question 3

Begins with trills, orchestra, strings, flute growls, very quick rhythmic gestures, female voice enters low and then jumps to a higher octave

Answer 3

Pierre Boulez Le marteau sans maître, mvt 5 1953-55

Question 4

Piano high note followed by bass, pointallistic, piano piece, at times the lines appear to be following one another

Answer 4

Pierre Boulez structures 1a 1952

Question 5

Ver quiet piano beginning, melodic slow melody (very much like an etude) (less dissonant) The lines appear to provide an element of harmony to one another, conjunct

Answer 5

Luigi
Dallapiccola Quaderno musicale di Annalibera
* “Quartina”1952-1953

Question 6

Eighth notes very quiet piano music, one moving line with whole notes underneath to begin, accented moments, oscilliations,

Answer 6

Luigi Dallapiccola, Quaderno musicale di Annalibera No.4Linee” 1952-53

Question 7

Piano upper note and dissonant lower note,dissonant scale, very quiet but crescendos, almost creates an arpeggio, lines work almost independently

Answer 7

Luigi Dallapiccola, Quaderno musicale di Annalibera, no. 6 Fregi 1952-53

Question 8

Piano piece, funky chords to start with and then the lines create counterpoint, lines mostly function together to form this work

Answer 8

Arnold Schoenberg, Piano Piece, op. 33a, 1929

Question 9

Strings in chord, homophonic texture to begin, almost tense

Answer 9

Arnold Schoenberg String Quartet #4, III. Largo1936

Question 10

clarinet, beginning, plucked, groove t then the string lines work together to create a groove,

Answer 10

Anton Webern, Symphony, op. 21, mvt 2: Variations 1927-28

Question 11

Beat me on an anvil OH GOD

Answer 11

Ruth Crawford Seeger
Three Songs
“Prayers of Steel”
1931–33

Question 12

Is it wickedness?

Answer 12

Kendrick Lamar
DAMN.
1. Blood
2017

Question 13

Multiple voices, Like a party, they rarely meet homophonically. Sounds like a chorus piece for a modern musical

Answer 13

Luciano Berio
Sinfonia
III. “In ruhig fliessender Bewegung”
1966

Question 14

Violin, quarter, eighth, quarter, followed by low cello, followed by violin, pluck

Answer 14

Elliott Carter
String Quartet #5
Introduction
1995

Question 15

Violin line with plucked moments around, more strings are added in, combination of interjections of strings

Answer 15

Elliott Carter
String Quartet #5
Giacoso
1995

Question 16

multiple quarter notes on violins, longer lines of strings before pluck

Answer 16

Elliott Carter
String Quartet #5
Interlude 1
1995

Question 17

flute growl, garbling, person singing through instrument, more flute sounds

Answer 17

George Crumb
Vox balaenae (voice of the whale)
1971

Question 18

large triangle, flute run craziness, woman scream singing, plucked. Woman singing rhythmically “Luna”

Answer 18

George Crumb
Night of the Four Moons
IV. ¡Huye luna, luna, luna!
1969

Question 19

Tuba, trombone interjection, honk, honk, honk, with strings and then string crescendos, repeated

Answer 19

Gerard Grisey
Les espaces acoustiques
No. 3 Partiels for 18 musicians
1975

Question 20

Ominious piano and strings, trombone line, trilling strings, (horror movie score similar) tense (Star wars similiar)

Answer 20

Charles Ives
Symphony #4: 1. Prelude 1917

Question 21

single quick rhythmic piano line to begin with what sounds like interjections from piano underneath, repeatss.. they change as the piece goes on little by little

Answer 21

Steve Reich
Piano Phase
1967

Question 22

Strings lightly trilling, sing hissing, plucking underneath rhythmic, clarinet line, Ahhh, Ahhh, Ahhh

Answer 22

Kaija Saariaho
L’amour de loin
Act 2, scene 1 “Clemence” [
2000

Question 23

Clarinet and flute line followed by melodic female voice “Vieennnna”

Answer 23

Kaija Saariaho
L’amour de loin
Act 2, scene 2 “L’amour de loin”
2000