Composition - Symphonie Fanstique - p. 98-102

Question 1

Answer the following questions for the excerpt:

1. Title of the entire piece
2. What’s the form of the entire piece?
3. Name of this movement
4. Name of this specific excerpt
5. Name two of the three instruments in this excerpt?
6. Who is the composer?

Answer 1

1. Symphonie fantastique
2. Program Symphony
3. Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath
4. Dies irae
5. bassoon, ophicleide and bells
6. Berlioz

Question 2

What is an obsolete brass instrument that is the predecessor of the tuba?

Where/how is it used in Symphonie fantastique?

Answer 2

Ophicleide
In symphony fantastique, this instrument (and bassoons) play the dies irae

Question 3

What is program symphony?

Answer 3

• a 19th century multi-movement orchestral work that has descriptive title and often has accompanying text that outlines the program

Question 4

What is Dies irae?

Answer 4

It’s a monophonic chant and used in requiem (mass for the dead). The music is associated with funerals.

Question 5

What is col legno?

Answer 5

This term is Italian for “with the wood”. Berlioz used this new string effect in which the plays tap the strings with the wooden parts of their bows.

Question 6

What is the term for the following definition:

• a 19th century multi-movement orchestral work that has descriptive title and often has accompanying text that outlines the program

Answer 6

program symphony

Question 7

What is idee fixe?

Answer 7

Berlioz came up with this term. it’s French for ‘fixed idea”. It’s a recurrent theme that links the multi-movements. In symphonie fantastique, it represents ‘the beloved’

Question 8

Answer the following questions for the excerpt:

1. Title of the entire piece
2. What’s the form of the entire piece?
3. Name of this movement
4. Name of this specific excerpt
5. What is the fugal texture in this excerpt?
6. What string technique is used?
7. Who is the composer?

Answer 8

1. Symphonie fantastique
2. Program Symphony
3. Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath
4. Dance of the Witches
5. Fugal texture
6. Col legno
7. Berlioz

Question 9

Put these movements in order:

A Ball
Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath
March to the Scaffold
Scene in the Fields
Reveries, Passions

Answer 9

I - Reveries
II - A Ball
III - Scene in the Fields
IV - March to the Scaffold
V - Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath

Question 10

What is the term for the following definition:
This term is Italian for “with the wood”. Berlioz used this new string effect in which the plays tap the strings with the wooden parts of their bows.

Answer 10

col legno

Question 11

What is the term for the following definition:

Berlioz came up with this term and it’s French for ‘fixed idea”. It’s a recurrent theme that links the multi-movements. In symphonie fantastique, it represents ‘the beloved’

Answer 11

idee fixe

Question 12

What is the term that means “day of wrath” in Latin? It’s a monophonic chant and used in requiem (mass for the dead). The music is associated with funerals.

Answer 12

Dies irae

Question 13

Who is Harriet Smithson and what is her role in Symphonie Fanastique?

Answer 13

Berlioz fell in love with Harriet Smithson. He composed Symphonie fanstique with her in mind.

Question 14

Answer the following questions for the excerpt:

1. Title of the entire piece
2. What’s the form of the entire piece?
3. Name of this movement
4. Name of this specific excerpt
5. Name the instrument in this excerpt?
6. Who is the composer?

Answer 14

1. Symphonie fantastique
2. Program Symphony
3. Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath
4. idee fixe (the beloved)
5. Clarinet
6. Berlioz

Question 15

Who does the ‘beloved’ represent?

Answer 15

Harriet Smithson