M Ch12

What are statements that describe the "Dies irae?"

(all) -a tune originally composed in the thirteenth century -used in music and movies to suggest scenes of horror -the burial chant of the medieval church -it is treated in a sacrilegious manner in Symphonie fantastique

What was the average size of the orchestra during the late Romantic period?

100

What statement about Berlioz is NOT accurate?

As a young man he spent six months traveling across Europe, where he met the great artists and authors of his day

Which composure is notable for resisting the allure of program music?

Brahms

In The Nutcracker, Tchaikovsky creates music that conjures up exotic locales. In this clip, how does he evoke the dancing shepherds that young Clara encounters in China?

Flutes play the melody

What statement about Berlioz is WRONG

He met his future wife while studying piano with her father

which of the following is Not true regarding Berlioz's "March to the Scaffold"?

It geographically depicts in music the decapitation of Harriet Smithson

T/F Berlioz was the first composer to earn a living as a music critic

True!

what is the cornet?

a brass instrument with valves, most often used in military bands

a "character piece" is

a brief instrumental work, usually for the piano, seeking to capture a single mood and often making use of simple binary or ternary form.

What is the correct definition of a "program symphony"?

a multimovement work for orchestra that depicts a succession of events, scenes, or ideas drawn from outside of music.

What is the correct definition of the "symphonic (tone) poem"?

a one-movement work for orchestra that gives musical expression to the emotions and events associated with a story, play, political event, or personal experience

what is program music?

a piece of instrumental music, usually for symphony orchestra, that seeks to recreate in sound the events and emotions portrayed in some extra-musical source: a story, a play, an historical event, etc.

what is "diminution"?

a reduction, usually by half, of all the rhythmic durations in a melody

What statement about Berlioz's skill is most accurate

all -His compositions call for an enormous orchestra; he felt the ideal ensemble would include hundreds of musicians -he experimented with new instruments -local tutors taught him to play the flute and guitar, but he never learned to play the piano proficiently -he wrote a treatise on musical instruments that is still used as a textbook in music conservatories around the world

what is an "ophicleide"?

an early form of the tuba

what instrument is a low oboe?

english horn

T/F In the eighteenth c, ballet was seen as too frivolous a spectacle to be in the same program as an opera seria

false

which instrument was especially favored during the Romantic era because of its dark, rich tone and associations with the hunt—and by extension, nature?

french horn

what is "absolute music"

instrumental music free of a text or any pre-existing program

What is the INCORRECTt statement about Berlioz's "idée fixe"?

it is always played by the oboe

what is col lego mean?

striking the strings with the wood of the bow rather than with the horsehair