Chapter 53 - Listening Guide Quiz 45: Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, Part I, excerpts

Here is the full excerpt from Part I of The Rite of Spring: (Rite of Spring, Part I, 4:37) Listen to the following music excerpts and drag them to the correct section on the image below.

(Blue) dense texture 0:43: 3rd (Orange) accented string chords 0:28: 1st (Green) French horn melody 0:28: 2nd

Which of the following statements correctly describe the Introduction, Dance of the Youths and Maidens, and Game of Abduction from Part I of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring?

-Stravinsky uses Russian folk and folklike themes. -The Introduction features a bassoon playing in its highest register.

Which correctly describe the first eighteen seconds of The Rite of Spring, heard in this excerpt?

-The bassoon plays at a slow pace. -The violins play a pizzicato rhythmic figure.

Which of the following correctly describe the chords heard at the beginning of Dance of the Youths and Maidens from The Rite of Spring?

-irregularly accented -dissonant

Drag and drop the appropriate words to describe Dance of the Youths and Maidens from Part I of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

Dance of the Youths and Maidens alternates Russian folk-song melodies with sound blocks. A dissonant chord repeats in a basic duple pulse, but the rhythm is unpredictable due to irregular accents. The section features a wide variety of instrumental colors and dynamics.

Which instrument is featured in the opening ten seconds of the Introduction to Part I of The Rite of Spring?

bassoon

Which best describes the tempo of the music in the first three sections (Introduction, Dance of the Youths and Maidens, and Game of Abduction) of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring?

changes from slow to fast to frenetic

Here is a clip from Dance of the Youths and Maidens: (Dance of the Youths and Maidens, 0:33) And here is a clip from Game of Abduction: (Game of Abduction, 0:43) True or false: The following clip is from Dance of the Youths and Maidens: (Stravinsky, Rite of Spring, 0:43)

false

Which best describes the pace of the music at the beginning of Dance of the Youths and Maidens, heard in this excerpt?

fast with consistent pulse

Match the descriptive words or phrases with the different elements of music as found in Part I of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

meter: shifting and irregularly accented texture: dense and complex polyphony form: sectional

Which best describes the performing ensemble in Dance of the Youths and Maidens from Part I of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring?

orchestra

Which best describes the texture of Dance of the Youths and Maidens?

polyphonic

Which of the following do not describe the opening of Game of Abduction?

regular and predictable accents

Which best describes the form of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring?

sectional, with opening section recurring several times

Which best describes the next passage of music in this section, from the middle of Dance of the Youths and Maidens?

tune played by bassoon and accompanied by dissonant chords

Put the excerpted melodies in the order in which they first appear in the Introducion and Dance of the Youths and Maidens from Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. BE VERY CAREFUL to click only on the white triangle to listen to the excerpt; clicking anywhere else in the card will select it as an answer.

3. French horn melody 0:28 2. accented string chords 0:28 4. parallel chords 0:14 1. bassoon folk tune 0:21

Which playing technique is featured by the strings in this short passage from the Introduction?

pizzicato

Which best describes the next passage of music, which occurs about two and a half minutes into the piece?

tune played by trumpets with parallel chords in other instruments

Which best describes the very beginning of this excerpt, which occurs about two minutes into the piece?

tune played first by French horns and then by flutes

Which best describes the texture of the music at the beginning of Dance of the Youth and Maidens?

two or more melodic ideas played simultaneously (polyphony)