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What language do you hear? What country does this song invoke? What is the name of the opera this comes from?

Short Answers

The questions below pertain to only the page immediately above the questions.     1. What is the scene? (1 pt.) 2. Name three new orchestral special effects found on this page (3 pts.) 3. How do the cellos and bass conjure up the devil? (1 pt.)   4. Name one orchestral special effect. (1 pt.)       5. Name one orchestral special effect. (1 pt.)    6. What melody does the clarinet  (5th staff) play? (2 pts.) 7. What does starting that melody at ppp and then crescendoing portray? (1 pt.) 8. What does the Allegro Assai represent? (1 pt.)   9. Where does the Dies Irae come from, and what is its significance? (3 pts.) 10. What does its presentation in the low brass, especially the trombones, signify? (1 pt.)   

Provide an overview of either Gustav Mahler or Richard Strauss

   Who is the composer? What orchestral features define this style? What vocal features define this style?

The questions below pertain to only the page immediately above the questions.     1. What is the scene? (1 pt.) 2. Name three new orchestral special effects found on this page (3 pts.) 3. How do the cellos and bass conjure up the devil? (1 pt.)   4. Name one orchestral special effect. (1 pt.)       5. Name one orchestral special effect. (1 pt.)    6. What melody does the clarinet  (5th staff) play? (2 pts.) 7. What does starting that melody at ppp and then crescendoing portray? (1 pt.) 8. What does the Allegro Assai represent? (1 pt.)   9. Where does the Dies Irae come from, and what is its significance? (3 pts.) 10. What does its presentation in the low brass, especially the trombones, signify? (1 pt.)   

Provide an overview of either Franz Liszt or Johannes Brahms

Listening Question No. 1

Which “ism” does the example represent?

What is the nationality of the composer of this piece?