Chapter 42 - Listening Guide Quiz 34: Grieg: Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1, Morning Mood
What is the form of Morning Mood?
A-B-A'
Drag and drop the appropriate words to describe Grieg's Morning Mood.
Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg's Morning Mood was originally used as incidental music for a play by Henrik Ibsen. The sunrise is depicted by a dramatic crescendo and the lilting and lyrical melody evokes the countryside with pastoral instruments such as the flute and oboe.
Listen to the following music excerpts and drag each clip to the correct place on the timeline for Morning Mood. Purple-main theme, French horn 0:13 Green-flowing melody, oboe 0:11 Yellow-cellos and high strings 0:43
Purple-3rd Green-1st Yellow-2nd
Put the excerpts in the correct order in which they first appear in Grieg's Morning Mood from Peer Gynt. 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.
Purple-Theme A, full orchestra 0:26: 2nd Blue-Theme A, French horn 0:13: 3rd Orange-Theme A, flute 0:12: 1st
What best describes the texture of Morning Mood?
a few instruments play a melody and the others provide accompaniment
The instrument heard here at the beginning of Morning Mood is a French horn. T/F
false
Which two instruments are prominently featured at the beginning of Morning Mood?
flute and oboe
Match the descriptive words or phrases with the different elements of music as found in Morning Mood.
form- A-B-A′ meter- 6/8 texture- homophonic
What best describes how the melody is played in the second half of the A section? (0:26)
full orchestra
Which instrument is playing the main theme at the beginning of the A' section?
horn
Here is the A section of Morning Mood: (Grieg, Morning Mood, A section 0:52) Here is the B section: (Grieg, Morning Mood, B section 0:25) What best describes this excerpt? (Grieg, Morning Mood)
it sounds like the music from section A
Which instrument family is featured in the B section of Morning Mood? (0:25)
strings
What best describes the dynamics of the B section of Morning Mood?
sudden, dramatic changes from loud to soft
