Listening Guide Quiz 30: Wagner: Die Walküre, Act III, Opening

Which best describes the music in this excerpt, which begins 22 seconds into scene 1?

swirling strings and woodwinds; a lively dotted rhythm in horns and low strings; and a melody played by brass

The first scene of Act III of Wagner's Die Walküre opens with music that is in which meter?

9/8

Put the excerpts in the correct order in which they first appear in the opening scene of Act III from Wagner's Die Walküre. BE VERY CAREFUL to click only on the white triangle to listen to the excerpts; clicking anywhere else in the cards will select it as an answer.

OGR

In this excerpt, which begins 22 seconds into scene 1, the trumpets and French horns both play the "Ride" leitmotif:

T

The "Ride" motive played by the brass is called a -. It is played first by the -.

leitmotif French horns

Which best describes the texture of the opening scene of Die Walkuüre?

polyphonic

Match the descriptive words or phrases with the different elements of music as found in the opening of Wagner's Die Walküre, Act III.

rhythm dotted orchestration brass, winds, strings texture polyphonic

Which best describes the first seven seconds of scene 1 from Wagner's Die Walküre?

rushing strings and wavering woodwinds

Which best describes the music in this excerpt, which begins about eight seconds into scene 1?

swirling strings and woodwinds with a lively dotted rhythm in French horns and low strings