Listening IDs for Final

Question 1

• Metric pulse and then quasi homophonic and quasi polyphonic harmony
• Exists nowhere in time
• Importance of silence

Answer 1

Arvo Part’s Sarah was Ninety Years Old (1977)

Question 2

• Looping
• String ensmeble w/ electric effects
• Juxtapose layers of time

Answer 2

Steve Reich’s Different Trains (1989)

Question 3

• Self-conscious of going to concerts of new music

Answer 3

David Lang’s Are you experienced - On Being Hit on the Head (1992)

Answer 4

Leonard Bernstein’s “Cool” from West Side Story (1957)

Answer 5

Leonard Bernstein’s “Meeting Scene” from West Side Story (1957)

Question 6

Music as organized sound

Answer 6

Edgar Varese’s Electronic Poem (Poeme Electronique) (1958)

Question 7

Symphony

Answer 7

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G Minor (1788)

Question 8

Use rhythm, melody and harmony, vocal range to define characters - Leporello

Answer 8

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “I Work Night and Day” (Notte e giorno faticar) Act 1, Scene 1 from Don Giovanni (1787)

Question 9

Secco Recitative

Music Controlling

Don Giovanni and Zerlina

Answer 9

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ‘s “There We Will Entwine Our Hands” (Là ci darem la mano) from Don Giovanni (1787)

Question 10

Longest symphony at the time

Answer 10

Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Movement 1: Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso (1824)

Question 11

Transcendence, People coming together, Expansion of forms, Hybrid of vocal and instrumental forms

Answer 11

Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Movement 4: Presto - Allegro assai (w/ final chorus from Schiller’s ode to joy)

Question 12

Idee Fixe

Dies Irae

Program music

Answer 12

Hector Berlioz’s The Fantastic Symphony, Movement 5: Dream of a Sabbath Night

Question 13

Musical clues about journey

Through-composed

Four different voices

Answer 13

Franz Schubert’s “The Elfking” (Erlkonig) (1815)

Question 14

Beginning of the cycle

Doesn’t really conclude

Floating

Strophic

Answer 14

Robert Schumann’s A Poet’s Love - Im wunderschonen Monat Mai (In the Wonderful Month of May) - 1840

Question 15

End of the cycle

• Musical irony
• Music keeps going long after text ends

Answer 15

Robert Schumann’s Die alten, bosen Lieder (The Old, Hateful Songs) from A Poet’s Love (Dichterliebe) (1840)

Question 16

Conflict between good and evil

Exchanging musical values

Geometric construction

Answer 16

Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s “Rose” Adagio, Scene 1 from Sleeping Beauty

Question 17

Leitmotif

Tristan chord

“Death in Love”

Answer 17

Richard Wagner’s “Liebestod” from “tristan und Isolde” (1859)

Question 18

Living in a symbolist’s world

Half man, half creature

132 measures for 132 line poem

Answer 18

Claude Debussy’s Prleude to the Afternoon of a Faun (Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune) (1894)

Question 19

Whole tone scale

Group of pitches

No cadence

No root, tonic or starting place

Answer 19

Claude Debussy’s “Sails” (Voiles) from Preludes, Book 1 (1910)

Question 20

Number 6

Sprechstimme

Answer 20

Arnold Schoenberg’s “Madonna” from “Moonstruck Pierre” (Pierrot Lunaire) 1912

Question 21

Flute comes and flutters in this distorted way

Answer 21

Arnold Schoenberg’s “The Ailing Moon” from “moonstruck Pierre” (Pierrot Lunaire) (1912)

Question 22

Mad cascade of sound as he tries to brush light of

Passages of counterpoint

Example of Free-Atonality

Two simultaneously unfolding canonic passages

Answer 22

Arnold Schoenberg’s “The Moonfleck” by Moonstruck Pierre (Pierrot Lunaire) *1912)

Question 23

Synesthesia

Invocation of mythology

Last piece in cycle

Answer 23

Arnold Schoenberg’s O Ancient Scent from “Moonstruck Pierre” (Pierrot Lunaire” (1912)

Question 24

Pretty peaceful, sounds like a bird at the beginning but with underlying tension

Answer 24

Igor Stravinski’s Introduction to The Rite of Spring (1913)

Question 25

Ostinato

Augur’s Chord

Answer 25

Igor’s Stravinsky’s Dances of the Young Girls (Scene 1) from The RIte of Spring (Le Sacre du Printemps) (1913)

Question 26

More harried, scattered

Answer 26

Igor Stravinski’s Mock abduction (Scene 2) from The RIte of Spring (Le Sacre du Printemps) (1913)

Question 27

Something peaceful but very unsettling, there is a flutter

Answer 27

Igor Stravinsky’s Spring Round dance (Scene 3) from The RIte of Spring (Le Sacre du Printemps) (1913)

Question 28

Cantata - back to bach

Tonal music with post-tonal accompaniment

Answer 28

Benjamin Britten’s “For I will Consider my Cat Jeffrey” from Rejoice in the Lamb (1943)

Question 29

Dry, consonant but hollow

March and choir

SO consonant it becomes dissonant

Socialist

Answer 29

Paul Hindemith’s Opening Chorus from Let’s Build a Town (Wir bauen eine Stadt) (1930)

Question 30

Imitative polyphony texture

Return to infant bliss

Answer 30

Maurice Ravel’s The Child is good and Wise from the Child and the ENchanted Objects (1925)

Question 31

Punctuated strings

Answer 31

Aaron Copland’s Scene 2: Fast from Appalachian Spring (1944)

Question 32

ALternating waltz feel

Answer 32

Aaron Copland’s Scene 3: Moderato from Appalachian Spring (1944)

Question 33

Light and chipper

Answer 33

Aaron Copland’s Scene 4: Fast from Appalachian Spring (1944)

Question 34

Playful and a little off-kilter

Answer 34

Aaron Copland’s Scene 5: Still Faster from Appalachian Spring (1944)

Question 35

Musical thief of traditional Americana

Bitonality intervals between 4th and 5th sections

Difficult to play

Organ

Answer 35

Charles Ives’ Variations on America (1905)

Question 36

Dealing with the meaning of existence

-Perennial question is stated unchanged every time
String quartet, trumpet, flute quartet
-Question is atonal
-Way the answer responds or doesn’t respond to question

Answer 36

Charles Ives The Unanswered Question (1906)