Chapter 11 Listening Quiz

String players depend on the conductor, or sometimes the -

Concert Master Bowing

Vocal music with instrumental accompaniment is called a cappella.

False

Match the descriptive words or phrases with the different elements of music as found in Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra.

Form: themes and variations Performing Forces: full orchestra Melody: based on a baroque tune Texture: homophonic at the beginning, polyphonic at the end

In early times, choral music was often performed a cappella which means:

It was performed without instrumental accompaniment.

Which of the following types of music are typically performed by a band? Which are not?

Jazz Rock Marches

Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra has an eight-measure theme in D minor based on a tune by Baroque composer Henry - . After the theme is heard - times in various instrument families, a set of thirteen - follow. The piece ends with a - where each instrument family is again featured in succession.

Purcell six variations fugue

Which of the following statements correctly describe Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra?

The tonality shifts between major and minor. The meter and tempo change.

In an orchestra, brass instruments are placed near the back of the group because they are loud.

True

Let's compare two commonly heard ensembles—the orchestra and the concert band—to see if you can hear the differences in sonority. Listen to the two examples. Which of the works is performed by an orchestra?

Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries

Let's compare two commonly heard ensembles—the symphony orchestra and the concert band—to see if you can hear the differences in sonority. Listen to the two examples. Which of the works is performed by a symphony orchestra? Wagner, Ride of the Valkyries1:09Sousa, Stars and Stripes Forever3:41

Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries

What members of the woodwind family are featured playing solos in the fourth variation?

bassoons

Which of the following instruments are typically found in an orchestra?

cello, clarinets, timpani

What members of the string family are featured playing the melody in the seventh variation?

cellos

What is a small, specialized vocal ensemble called?

choir

In The Young Person's Guide, the composer, Britten, introduces the sound of the entire orchestra, then each instrument family as a group, finishing with the full orchestra again.

composer entire family orchestra

String players depend on the conductor, or sometimes the concertmaster, to make their bowing strokes uniform.

concertmaster bowing uniform

Which of the following statements describe Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra? Which do not?

does - The meter and tempo change and The tonality shifts between major and minor. does not - The work is only for strings and The entire work is in triple meter.

Conductors can only beat duple, triple, and quadruple patterns.

false

The string section makes up less than half of a symphony orchestra.

false

What word or phrase best describes the excerpt heard here, which begins a little after the thirteen minute mark of the entire piece?

fugue

What word or phrase describes the excerpt heard here, which begins a little after the thirteen minute mark of the entire piece?

fugue

To say that a piece was performed a cappella means:

it was performed without instrumental accompaniment

Which of the following terms best describes the ensemble heard in this example?

orchestra

Which of the following terms best describes the ensemble heard in this example? Stravinsky: Rite of Spring

orchestra

Which instrument family is not heard in this example played by a baroque orchestra? Handel: Alla hornpipe, from Water Music

percussion

What word or phrase best describes the excerpt heard here, from the beginning section of the piece?

statement of the main theme

Which instrument family is not heard in this example played by a concert band? Sousa, Stars and Stripes Forever3:41

strings

Which instrument family is not heard in this example played by a concert band? Sousa: Stars and Stripes Forever

strings

Which of the following terms describes the ensemble heard in this example?

symphony orchestra

Which of the following instruments is not typically found in a symphony orchestra?

synthesizer

What members of the brass family are featured playing solos in the twelfth variation?

trombones and tuba

The solo instruments heard in the third variation in Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra are clarinets.

true

Which instruments are included in a string quartet?

two violins, viola, and violoncello

Match each of the musical excerpts with the correct category. Be sure to click in the yellow part of the box when you are ready to drag it.

variation - excerpt 2 fugue - excerpt 1 theme - excerpt 3

Which of the following terms best describes the ensemble heard in this example? Hildegard: Kyrie

women's chorus

Label the excerpts in the correct order in which they appear in the Exposition, a.k.a. the "theme" section, of Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra by dragging over the numbers. Drag each item on the left to its matching item on the right.

woodwind - 1 strings - 3 percussion - 4 brass - 2

Which of the following instrument families is not heard in the fifth variation?

woodwinds