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Analysis Quiz 1 Listenings Descriptions

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Symphony No. 3, Movement 4
Low strings, soprano soloist, static accompaniment; great horn lines, oboe solo
Estampes: Pagodes
piano solo; trading off main parts between right and left hand; conflicting rhythms; exoticism
Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21: Mondestrunken
female voice, flute, violin, cello, piano; weird harmony, sprechstimme; uncomfortable rhythms
Wozzeck: Act 3, Transition and Scene 3
female and male voices; opens with dancing music; "Blood!"
Symphony No. 4: Movement 1
piano, odd motion among strings; choir singing in English; weird but triumphant melodies/harmonies
The Rite of Spring
opening bassoon solo, response from clarinet; primitivism; alto flute!; building texture in the woodwinds--all seem like solo lines
Der Lindberghflug "Introduction of the Pilot"
Wozzeck but more triumphant; lots of wind accompaniment in swung rhythms
Symphony of Psalms, Movement 2
Overlapping layers in the opening with woodwinds; very light but high in register; full choir comes in in Latin; written like a fugue
Concerto in G for Piano and Orchestra: Movement 1
opening piccolo, trumpet solo; doesn't really sound like a piano concerto a lot of the time; interjections from strings; beautiful middle section that sounds blues influenced
Piano Piece, Op. 33a
dissonant; awkward rhythms; mostly sixteenth and eighth notes;
Symphony, Op. 21: Movement 2, variations
clarinet opening; chamber orchestra, but all the lines seem to function independently; prominent horn part; repetitive sixteenths in strings; bass clarinet; string pizz
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta: Movement 1
opening in the strings in a fugue that moves around the circle of fifths; in this movement, there are only strings and celesta in this movement
Billy the Kid Suite, "Street in a Frontier Town"
celebratory, band sound; piccolo solo at beginning, intentional dissonance against consonant melodies
Africa, Part 2: Land of Romance
lush, somewhat cinematic; opening bassoon solo; perhaps a bit of exoticism
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