LIstening for midterm

Question 1

Drum rolls and man is singing “wine” “margaret” woman comes in singing

Answer 1

Alban Berg Wozzeck act 3 and transition 1922

Question 2

strings playing , pretty tonal, continuous line of scalular motion, change of character, staccoto strings, change again, more minor and dark (downward eighth notes)

Answer 2

Johannes Brahms
String Quartet in A minor, op. 51/2, ii 1873

Question 3

Ich Wund……er with piano underneath

Answer 3

Alma Schindler [Mahler]
(1879–1964)
Five Songs, #5 “Ich wandle unter Blumen” published 1911

Question 4

Large orchestra, soaring lines mostly tonal, high screachy woodwinds at times, sad string lament at the very beginning

Answer 4

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 10 in F-sharp Major
I. Andante – Adagio 1910

Question 5

Low string instrument beginning voice icchhhh sprriii, mostly short lines horn call response
Ending has a choir part

Answer 5

Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 3 in D minor
IV. “Was spricht die tiefe Mitternacht?”
1896

Question 6

string lines connecting to make a motive, plucking on the string instruments, voice comes in after a minute in long lines

Answer 6

Arnold Shoenberg String Quartet No. 2, op. 10 in F-sharp
IV. “Entrückung” [Rapture] 1908

Question 7

Piano piece, descending scale beginning, flourishes into a quicker speed, interjecting dissonances

Answer 7

Arnold Shoenberg Drei Klavierstücke [Three piano pieces], op. 11
I. Mäßige Viertel [Moderate quarter note]
1909

Question 8

Chord beginning sort of melody
piano piece

Answer 8

Arnold Shoenberg
Sechs kleine Klavierstücke [Six little piano pieces], op. 19
III. Sehr langsame Viertel [very slow quarter note] 1913

Question 9

single note beginning, call and response on piano, less melody more resonance

Answer 9

Arnold Schoenberg Sechs kleine Klavierstücke [Six little piano pieces], op. 19
VI. Sehr langsam [very slowly] 1913

Question 10

Flute and piano plus voice, invid –in at beginning, phrasing that leads down

Answer 10

Arnold Schoenberg Peirrot Lunaire: 1. Moondrunken 1912

Question 11

violin, piano opening before voice, some plucking crescendoing line with energy (grotesque)

Answer 11

Arnold Schoenberg: Peirrot Lunaire:
19. Serenade 1912

Question 12

Opera feel, male baritone phrasing up. Female voice over tremolo instruments, tensious moment, female

Answer 12

Richard Strauss: Solome first scene 1905

Question 13

orchestra with woman singing in high range

Answer 13

Richard Strauss: Solome final scene 1905

Question 14

Man singing solo to start trumpet interlude, strings followed by upset woman, intensifying emotion tristan melody

Answer 14

Richard wagner Tristan and Isotide
Beginning of Act 1: Sailor’s Song 1857-59

Answer 15

Music for Strings Percussion and Celesta, I
“Song of the Harvest” 1939 Bela Bartok

Question 16

Uncertainty in string music over percussion snare feeling

Answer 16

Bela Bartok Music for strings Percussion and Celeste 1936

Question 17

Contuous Violin eighth notes, very atonal and then more tenuto accents

Answer 17

Bela Bartok “Song of the Harvest” 1931

Question 18

Piano music, sounds almost like 2 pianos, scalular descents, then unison

Answer 18

Bela Barok Mikrokosmos “From the Island of Bali” 1932-39

Question 19

Piano, continous eighth notes with more crunch, tritones everywhere

Answer 19

Bela Bartok Mikrokosmos “Diminished Fifth” 1932-39

Question 20

Thirds planing over female voice. Dom –mi. (requiem) Main theme (“pieee Jusee)

Answer 20

Lili Boulanger Pie Jesu 1917

Question 21

Ragtime feel, heavy textured piano music

Answer 21

Emmanuel Chabrier Souveniers De Munich 1886

Question 22

piano music with two moving lines, distant fuzzy feeling, nostalgic

Answer 22

Debussy Estampes “Pagodes” 1903

Question 23

Allegro, picking on one string instrument and strumming with another (very quiet at first)

Answer 23

Debussy String quartet in G minor op 10. mvt 2 1886

Question 24

motive of thirty second notes in almost syncopation like rhythm

Answer 24

Debussy Preludes book 1
1910 “Violes”

Question 25

Peaceful, serene top line stops a good bit. Very quiet.

Answer 25

Debussy Preludes book 1
“Des pas sur la neige” 1910

Question 26

Also very quiet Eighth and sixteenth note rhythm

Answer 26

Debussy Preludes book 1
“La fille Aux Cheveux de lin” 1910

Question 27

Ghibli feeling piece, sinking chords

Answer 27

Debussy Preludes book 1
“ La Cathedral Engloutie”

Question 28

classic rag, stereotypical of what is expected

Answer 28

Scott Joplin
(ca. 1867–1917)
“Maple Leaf Rag” 1899

Question 29

solo from freshmen year quarter quarter eighth note groups, soloist followed by orchestra

Answer 29

Modest Mussorgsky
(1839–1881)
Pictures at an Exhibition, I. Promenade 1874

Question 30

Feels like movie a few measures in, tremolos heavy

Answer 30

Maurice Ravel String Quartet in F major, 2 1903

Question 31

piano work, very soft starting with 2 quarter notes, orchestra underneath

Answer 31

Maurice Ravel Piano Concerto in G, 1 1931

Question 32

tremolo with flute solo on top beginning, large orchestral work, harp, vibrant

Answer 32

Igor stravinsky Introduction to Petrushka 1910

Question 33

Bassoon opening, low reeds

Answer 33

Stravinsky the Rite of Spring 1913, Introduction

Question 34

drum intro, staccato and accents, wind flourishes, dance

Answer 34

Stravinsky Rite of Spring 1913, Dance of Rival tribes