WAM LISTENING TEST

Question 1

Claude Debussy - NOCTURNES (NO. 1: ‘NUAGES’)

Answer 1

1897-1899

Question 2

Igor Stravinsky - THE RITE OF SPRING (DANSE SACRALE)

Answer 2

1911-1913

Question 3

Arnold Schoenberg - PIERROT LUNAIRE, OP. 21: EXCERPTS

Answer 3

1912

Question 4

Arnold Schoenberg - SUITE FOR PIANO OP. 25, MINUET AND TRIO

Answer 4

1921-23

Question 5

Alban Berg WOZZECK, OP. 7: ACT III, SCENES 2 & 3

Answer 5

1917-22

Question 6

Anton Webern - SYMPHONY, OP. 21: FIRST MOVEMENT, RHID SCHREITEND

Answer 6

1927-28

Question 7

Igor Stravinsky - SYMPHONY OF PSALMS - SECOND MOVEMENT

Answer 7

1930

Question 8

Paul Hindemith - SYMPHONY ‘MATHIS DER MALER’, SECOND MOVEMENT (GRABLEGUNG - ENTOMBMENT)

Answer 8

1933-34

Question 9

Bela Bartok - MUSIC FOR STRINGS, PERCUSSION AND CELESTA: THIRD MOVEMENT, ADAGIO SYMPHONIC SUITE

Answer 9

1936

Question 10

Olivier Messiaen - QUARTET FOR THE END OF TIME: FIRST MOVEMENT, LITURGIE DE CRISTAL

Answer 10

1940-41

Question 11

Pierre Boulez - LE MARTEAU SANS MAÎTRE: MOVEMENT 6, BOURREAUX DE SOLITUDE - CHAMBER SONG CYCLE

Answer 11

1953-55

Question 12

KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN - GESANG DER JÜNGLINGE (SONG OF THE YOUTHS)

Answer 12

1955-56

Question 13

John Cage - MUSIC OF CHANGES: BOOK 1

Answer 13

1951

Question 14

KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI

- THRENODY FOR THE VICTIMS OF HIROSHIMA

Answer 14

1960

Question 15

John Adams - SHORT RIDE IN A FAST MACHINE

Answer 15

1986

Question 16

ARVO PÄRT - FRATRES (VERSION FOR 12 CELLOS)

Answer 16

1977

Question 17

ALFRED SCHNITTKE

- CONCERTO GROSSO NO.1 : SECOND MOVEMENT, TOCCATA

Answer 17

1976

Question 18

GYORGY LIGETI - ETUDE NO. 9, VERTIGE (VERTIGO)

Answer 18

1990

Question 19

THOMAS ADÈS - ASYLA (MOVEMENT 1)

Answer 19

1997