Name ______
Romantic Listening Key
Number: 7.1 CD 5/47 pg. 297
Title: Symphonie Fantastique, 4th mvmt
Composer: Berlioz
Genre: Program Symphony
Characteristics
Texture: ______
Text: ______
Voicing/Instrumentation: orchestra
What I heard: timp start, high bsn solo
Number: 7.2 CD 6/11 pg 339
Title: The Moldau
Composer: Smetana
Genre: symphonic poem
Characteristics
Texture: homophonic
Text: ______
Voicing/Instrumentation: orchestra
What I heard: flute start
Sections: two springs, the river, forest hunt, peasant wedding, moonlight dance of river nymphs, the river, the rapids, the river at its widest point, Vysehrad the ancient castle
Name ______
Number: 7.3 CD 5/51 pg 229
Title: Symphonie Fantastique, 5th mvmt (Dream of a Witch's Sabbath)
Composer: Berlioz
Genre: program symphony
Characteristics
Texture: homophonic
Text: ______
Voicing/Instrumentation: orchestra
What I heard: funeral chimes, clarinet idee fix, trills & grace notes
Number: 7.4 website
Title: 1812 Overture
Composer: Tchaikovsky
Genre: concert overture
Characteristics
Texture: homophonic
Text: ______
Voicing/Instrumentation: orchestra
What I heard: soft beginning, hunter motive, “Go Napoleon”, the battle
Name ______
Number: 7.5 website
Title: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Composer: Dukas
Genre: symphonic poem (tone poem)
Characteristics
Texture: homophonic
Text: ______
Voicing/Instrumentation: orchestra
What I heard:
Number: 7.6 website
Title: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46 “Morning”
Composer: Grieg
Genre: incidental music
Characteristics
Texture: homophonic
Text: ______
Voicing/Instrumentation: orchestra
What I heard:
Name ______
Number: 7.7 website
Title: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 Op. 46 “In the Hall of the Mountain King”
Composer: Grieg
Genre: incidental music
Characteristics
Texture: homophonic
Text: ______
Voicing/Instrumentation: orchestra
What I heard:
Number: 7.8 CD 5/7 pg 268
Title: Die Forelle (The Trout)
Composer: Schubert
Genre: Art song
Characteristics
Texture: homophonic
Text: German
Voicing/Instrumentation: voice/piano
What I heard: triplets, strophic form
Name ______
Number: 7.9
Title: Erlkönig (The Erlking)
Composer: Schubert
Genre: Art song
Characteristics
Texture: homophonic
Text: German
Voicing/Instrumentation: male voice/piano
What I heard: through composed form
Number: 7.10 website 2 versions
Title: Ave Maria
Composer: Schubert
Genre: art song
Characteristics
Texture: homophonic
Text: Italian
Voicing/Instrumentation: voice/piano or choir/orchestra
What I heard:
Name ______
Number: 7.11
Title: Symphony No. 3 in F major, 3rd mvt
Composer: Brahms
Genre: symphony
Characteristics
Texture: homophonic
Text: ______
Voicing/Instrumentation: orchestra
What I heard: very lyrical, triple meter, ABA’ form
Number: 7.12 CD 5/16 pg 273
Title: Carnival: Chiarina
Composer: Schuman
Genre: character piece for piano
Characteristics
Texture: homophonic
Text: ______
Voicing/Instrumentation: piano
What I heard: dotted eighth & sixteenth notes
Name ______
Number: 7.13 CD 5/30 pg 280
Title: Etude in c minor Op. 10, No. 12
Composer: Chopin
Genre: etude
Characteristics
Texture: homophonic
Text: ______
Voicing/Instrumentation: piano
What I heard: faster and more hurried
Number: 7.14 CD 5/57 pg 304-5
Title: Pictures at an Exhibition “Great Gate of Kiev”
Composer: Mussorgsky
Genre: program symphony (originally character piece for piano)
Characteristics
Texture: homophonic
Text: ______
Voicing/Instrumentation: orchestra
What I heard:
Name ______
Number: 7.15 website
Title: Night on Bald Mountain
Composer: Mussorgsky
Genre: symphonic poes
Characteristics
Texture: homophonic
Text: ______
Voicing/Instrumentation: orchestra
What I heard:
Number: 7.16 website
Title: March from The Nutcracker Ballet
Composer: Tchaikovsky
Genre: ballet music, incidental music
Characteristics
Texture: homophonic
Text: ______
Voicing/Instrumentation: orchestra
What I heard:
Name ______
Number: 7.17 CD 7/1 pg 334
Title: La Bohème, Act 1 (excerpt)
Composer: Puccini
Genre: opera
Characteristics
Texture: homophonic
Text: Italian
Voicing/Instrumentation: orchestra, male & female voice
What I heard: flute entrance
Number: 7.18 CD 6/27 pg 381
Title: Die Walküre (The Valkyire)
Composer: Wagner
Genre: opera
Characteristics
Texture: homophonic
Text: German
Voicing/Instrumentation: orchestra, male & female voices
What I heard: strings prominent