Listening Quiz 7- Repertoire

Composer

Piece

Year

Feature(s)

Wagner

Tristan und Isolde: Prelude and Conclusion of Act I

1859

Sullivan

"When the Foeman bares his steel" from Pirates of Penzance

1879

British-English

Brahms

Symphony No. 4 in E minor, op. 98: IV

1885

Evolves into call-response w/ strings and winds

Brahms

Quintet for Piano and Strings in F minor, op. 34: I

1864

piano moving very quickly w/ strings moving more legato

Strauss

Don Quixote, op. 35: themes and variations 1-2

1897

sounds like a galloping horse

Faure

"Avant que to ne t'en ailles"

1894

male vocalist; French; smooth; long phrases

Dvorak

Slavonic Dances, op.46, no. 1

1878

loud start; very fast and upbeat; dancelike (duh); loud percussion

Beach

Gaelic Symphony, op. 32: II

1897

start with low brass; strings come in after;

Joplin

Maple Leaf Rag

1899

syncopated; solo piano; no 4-bar introduction that was common for ragtime

Mahler

"Nun will die Sonn' so hell aufgeh'n" from kindertotenlieder

1904

Clarinet? starts; low male voice; German; orchestra only plays in sections; evokes strong emotions

Strauss

Salome: conclusion

1905

solo female voice; German; combines romanticism and modernism

Bessie Smith

"Back Water Blues"

1927

female voice; repeated lines (12-bar blues progression); English