Quiz 1: Schubert

Question 1

Schubert’s harmonic style and form in songs.

Answer 1

Complex and frequent modulations.
Long passages where tonality is ambiguous.
Favors modulations from tonic to flat keys.
Modal alterations are common.
Form is completely based on text. Some are in strophic form. Others may alternate between declamatory style and arioso style but are unified by recurring themes, and are built on a carefully planned tonal scheme. The form always fits the poetical and musical accompaniment of the text.

Question 2

Schwanengesänge

Answer 2

• A collection of 14 songs written by Franz Schubert only weeks before he died.
• They are based on poems by three poets.

Question 3

What two songs are included in Schwanengesänge?

Answer 3

Der Doppelgänger and Ständchen

Question 4

Der Doppelgänger was based on a text by…

Answer 4

Heinrich Heine

Question 5

Ständchen means _____ in English

Answer 5

Serenade

Question 6

Gretchen am Spinnrade and Erlkönig

Answer 6

Lieds composed by Schubert using the text from Goethe’s ‘Faust’.

Question 7

Die Schöne Müllerin

Answer 7

Song cycle from 1823

Question 8

Winterreise

Answer 8

Song cycle from 1827

Question 9

Die Schöne Müllerin and Winterreise are both set to poems by ________

Answer 9

Wilhelm Müller

Question 10

Symphony No. 7

Answer 10

Consists of four movements in piano sketches from 1821.

Question 11

Symphony No. 8 in b minor is known as ___________

Answer 11

The unfinished

Question 12

Symphony No 9: Subtitle

Answer 12

Great

Question 13

Who premiered Symphony No. 9?

Answer 13

Mendelssohn