Music In Narrative

Question 1

Example that music shouldn’t represent daily life

Answer 1

Richard Strauss: Symphonia Domestica

Sex

Question 2

Different versions of a programme

Answer 2

Mahlers symphony no 1
Berlin = no narrative
Budapest = unknown narrative
Hamburg = narrative

Question 3

What is programme music

Answer 3

What music represents is defined by information given to you and your agreement with that information

Question 4

Elgar piano quintet

Answer 4

1918

Brinkwells

Question 5

How was the quintet receives

Answer 5

Poorly
Criticised
Critics didn’t connect to narrative

Question 6

Criticisms

Answer 6

Opening in effective (Thomas Dunhill)
Transitions dubious (Diana McVeagh)
2nd idea weak and salon like (Anderson)
Middle section dull, expected fugato (McVeagh)

Question 7

Novel Elgar based the work on and evidence

Answer 7

Strange story

Musical parallels and diary entries

Question 8

How does Newman suggest programmatic influences

Answer 8

He was a dedicatee and passionate about programme music

Question 9

Who wrote strange story

Answer 9

Edward Bulwer Lytton

Question 10

Berlioz Symphonia fabtastiwue finale

Answer 10

Idee fize grotesque (Eb piccolo clarinet)
Goblins dancing = bassoon countermelody
Diez Irae

Question 11

Liszt, Les Preludes

Answer 11

Thematic metamorphis

Symphonic poem

Question 12

Strauss, Till Eucenspiegels Lustige Streiche

Answer 12

Tone poem

Merry pranks

Question 13

When was Elgars piano quintet

Answer 13

1918