“Trout” Quintet

Question 1

Genre, Composition date, Structure, and Performing forces

Answer 1

Chamber music (piano quintet)
1819
Five movements
Piano, violin, viola, cello, double bass

Question 2

Fourth Movement: Key, Form, Tempo, Meter, and Theme

Answer 2

D major
Theme and variations
Andantino
2/4
“Die Forelle” (Lied by Schubert in 1817)

Question 3

Theme: Instrumentation, Melodic line in which instrument, Texture, and Form

Answer 3

All but piano, Violin, Homophonic, Binary

Question 4

Variation 1:
- Theme by ___ (embellished with ___) in both hands separated by ___
- Double bass plays ___
- ___ and ___ play triplet figure in imitation
- Musical character

Answer 4

• Piano (embellished with trills) in both hands separated by an octave
• Pizzicato
• Violin and cello
• Graceful and elegant

Question 5

Variation 2:
- Theme is played by ___
- Countermelody played by ___ in ____
- Piano ___
- Musical character

Answer 5

• Viola
• Violin in sixteenth-note triplets
• Imitates fragments of theme
• Lighthearted and elegant

Question 6

Variation 3:
- Theme is played by ___, resulting in ___
- ___ plays virtuosic accompaniment to theme
- ___ and ___ play a syncopated ___ accompaniment
- Musical character

Answer 6

• Double bass, resulting in a comical effect
• Piano
• Violin and viola, sixteenth-note
• Humorous and ironic

Question 7

Variation 4:
- Theme instrumentation
- Begins in ___; ___ ___ of dynamics
- Musical character

Answer 7

• All instruments (dialogue between piano and strings)
• D Minor; abrupt changes
• Dramatic and forceful

Question 8

Variation 5:
- Theme is played by ___ in ___ ___ rhythms
- Begins in ___
- ___ responds, imitating rhythmic figure
- Musical character
- Ending

Answer 8

• Cello, jagged dotted rhythms
• B flat major
• Piano
• Broad and lyrical
• Transition prepares and leads into variation 6

Question 9

Variation 6:
- Theme is played by ___
- ___ plays the sixteenth-note triplet accompaniment from ___ ___
- Tempo changes to ___
- Ending

Answer 9

• Violin
• Piano, original song
• Allegretto
• Gentle coda (like in original song) brings movement to a quiet close