Review - Audio - Orchestral instrumental - Programmatic Flashcards
Answer the following questions for the music excerpt.
-Title
-Composer
-Genre
-Structure
Name three rhythmic techniques used in this piece.
Title: Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Composer: John Adams
Genre: fanfare for orchestra
Structure: one movement (loosely divided into four sections based on the different wood blocks used)
- a high wood block establishes the beat and then maintains it.
Answer the following questions for the music excerpt.
-Title
-Composer
-Genre
-Structure
Name three rhythmic techniques used in this piece.
Title: Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Composer: John Adams
Genre: fanfare for orchestra
Structure: one movement (loosely divided into four sections based on the different wood blocks used)
-Cross-rhythms
-Changing meter (time signatures)
-Polyrhythms
-Ostinato
- Simultaneous use of simple and compound time
Answer the following for the music excerpt:
- Title of entire piece
- What instruments play this theme
- Form of entire piece
- Which part of the form is the music excerpt?
- What is the solo instrument?
- What interval does the solo instrument play?
- What innovative instrument is played in the final section (not in the excerpt)?
- Title of entire piece: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
- Form of entire piece: ABA
- Which part of the form is the music excerpt? return of section A
- What is the solo instrument? Flute
- What interval does the solo instrument play? Solo flute play perfect fourth (5 semitones)
- What innovative instrument is played in the final section (not in the excerpt)? Antique cymbals (see attached image)
Answer the following questions for the music excerpt.
-Title
-Composer
-Genre
-Structure
Name three rhythmic techniques used in this piece.
Title: Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Composer: John Adams
Genre: fanfare for orchestra
Structure: one movement (loosely divided into four sections based on the different wood blocks used)
-Cross-rhythms
-Changing meter (time signatures)
-Polyrhythms
-Ostinato
- Simultaneous use of simple and compound time
Answer the following for the music excerpt:
- Title of entire piece
- Composer
- Genre
- Source of inspiration
- Who wrote the source of inspiration
- Form of entire piece
- Which part of the form is the music excerpt?
- Which instrument plays the theme?
- Title of entire piece: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
- Composer: Debussy
- Genre: symphonic poem (tone poem)
- Source of inspiration: a symbolist poem
- Who wrote the source of inspiration: Mallarme
- Form: ABA
- Which part of the form is the music excerpt? section B
- Which instrument plays the theme? Clarinet
Answer the following question for the music excerpt.
- Name of complete work
- what is the solo instrument?
- Name of complete work - The Rite of Spring
- G
- what is the solo instrument? bassoon
Answer the following for the music excerpt:
- Title of entire piece
- What instrument plays the opening melody
- What interval is in the opening melody?
- Give two innovative orchestration in this music excerpt
- Describe the meter/tempo
- Title of entire piece: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
- What instrument plays the opening melody: flute
- What interval is in the opening melody? a tritone
- Give two innovative orchestration in this music excerpt: harp glissandi, muted horns, muted strings
- Describe the meter/tempo: the tempo is moderate and there is no clear metric accent
Answer the following for the audio excerpt.
-The title
-Genre of the piece
-What is the source of inspiration?
-Composer
-Which movement is the excerpt from?
-Form of this movement.
-Identify the poetic image
-Describe the music
-Spring, from the Four Season
-It’s a solo violin concerto.
-The source of inspiration is the sonnets that were most likely written by Vivaldi.
-Vivaldi
-The excerpt is from the first movement
- The form is ritornello.
Poetic Image: Spring has arrived
Musical depiction: rhythmic, bright and dance-like
Answer the following for the audio excerpt.
-The title
-Genre of the piece
-What is the source of inspiration?
-Composer
Identify the poetic image
Describe the music
-Spring, from the Four Season
-It’s a solo violin concerto.
-The source of inspiration is the sonnets that were most likely written by Vivaldi.
-Vivaldi
Poetic image: nymphs and shepherds dance to bagpipe
Musical depiction:
- the bass pedal point suggests the drone of bagpipes
- the lilting compound meter creates a dance-like feeling
Answer the following for the audio excerpt.
-The title
-Genre of the piece
-What is the source of inspiration?
-Composer
-Which movement is the excerpt from?
Identify the poetic image
Describe the music
-Spring, from the Four Season
-It’s a solo violin concerto.
-The source of inspiration is the sonnets that were most likely written by Vivaldi.
-Vivaldi
Poetic image: Thunder and lightning of a storm
Musical depiction: violin’s tremolando passages (quick repetition of notes) describes thunder; rising 32nd note scales suggest lightning
Answer the following questions for the excerpt:
- Title of the entire piece
- What’s the form of the entire piece?
- Name of this movement
- Name of this specific excerpt
- Name the instrument in this excerpt?
- Who is the composer?
- Symphonie fantastique
- Program Symphony
- Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath
- idee fixe (the beloved)
- Clarinet
- Berlioz
Answer the following for the music excerpt:
- Title of entire piece
- What instruments play this theme
- Form of entire piece
- Which part of the form is the music excerpt?
- Which instrument plays the theme?
- What scale is used and why is it used?
- Title of entire piece: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
- Form: ABA
- Which part of the form is the music excerpt? section B
- Which instrument plays the theme? Clarinet
- What scale is used and why is it used? Whole-tone scale is used to bring out exotic feeling
- Name of complete work
- Genre of the complete work
- Composer
- What is the title of this excerpt?
What is the name of this music excerpt?
Describe the dancers dancing to the music excerpt.
How is primitivism created in the Dance of the Adolescents?
- Name of complete work - The Rite of Spring
- Genre of the complete work - ballet
- Composer - Stravinsky
- What is the title of this excerpt? Dance of the Adolescents
This is the Dance of the Adolescents. The dancers are divided into groups of young men and women. They stomp their feet and move their arms wildly.
The primitivism created in the Dance of the Adolescents with a strong, pounding rhythm.
Answer the following question for the music excerpt.
- Name of complete work
- Genre of the complete work
- Composer
- what is the solo instrument?
- Who is the choreographer?
- What is the structure of the entire work?
- What part of the structure does the solo belong to?
- Name of complete work - The Rite of Spring
- Genre of the complete work - ballet
- Composer - Stravinsky
- what is the solo instrument? bassoon
- Who is the choreographer? Nijinsky
- What is the structure of the entire work? Two parts (part 1 - Adoration of the Earthy and Part 2 - the Sacrifice)
- What part of the structure does the solo belong to? The bassoon solo is part of the Introduction.
Answer the following questions for the music excerpt.
-Title
-Composer
-Genre
-Structure
Name three rhythmic techniques used in this piece.
Title: Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Composer: John Adams
Genre: fanfare for orchestra
Structure: one movement (loosely divided into four sections based on the different wood blocks used)
-Cross-rhythms
-Changing meter (time signatures)
-Polyrhythms
-Ostinato
- Simultaneous use of simple and compound time
