Mussic 101

Identify this fragment, naming both the composer and the piece of music. What is important about the rhythm at the beginning of the woodwind melody that you hear at the beginning of the fragment?

2. Who do you think wrote this piece of music? What kind of piece (sonata, symphony or whatever) is it?

Section Two: Answer ONE question

Choose ONE (1) topic from the following list, and write AT LEAST 500 words in response:

(a) Compare opera and the movies. How does music help tell the story in either case? Give named examples of the use of music in both genres.

(b) Can music tell a story without using words? If so, how? Give specific examples of pieces of music that do this.

(c) Beethoven, Wagner and the other Romantics wrote music that was "larger than life" - music with "heroes". Do you think this is still possible today? Give examples of Romanticism and Romantic Heroism in the culture of our own times.

Section Three: Answer ALL questions

By research (library, internet or any other method), answer the following:

Which composer wrote a Symphony #0?

Whose first opera was called Die Feen?

Whose last opera but one was called Otello?

Whose 8th Symphony is known as (and is) the Unfinished?

Name two operas by Bizet.

Which composer wrote 4 symphonies, a German Requiem and had an unrequited loved affair with the widow of another composer?

Whose widow?

Which famous opera librettist of the 18th century died in New York?

By what name is To Anacreon in Heaven better known?

Name an American composer who lived and died in the 19th century.

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