Review - Audio - Keyboard

Question 1

Provide the following for the following Excerpt.

• Title of entire collection
• Title of the piece the excerpt is part of
• Composer
• What is the general style of this piece?
• what is the main characteristic rhythm in this section?

Answer 1

• Music for Piano the entire collection
• Changes
• Louie
• The piece is a minimalist style
• Hemiola is the main rhythmic feature. This is created when the accents shifted from groups of 4 notes to groups of 3 notes.

Question 2

Provide the following for the following Excerpt.

• Title of entire collection
• Title of the piece the excerpt is from
• Composer
• What is the general style of this piece?
• Describe the end of the piece/this excerpt?

Answer 2

• Music for Piano the entire collection
• Changes
• Louie
• The piece is a minimalist style
• The ending gradually becomes softer until the end. The last dynamics indication is “perdendosi.” gradually fading away.”

Question 3

Listen and answer the following:

Composer
Title of the entire piece

Describe the music.

Answer 3

Composer: JS Bach

The Well-Tempered Clavier

(Section A of the Prelude portion of the Prelude and Fugue in B flat Major, BWV 866)

• very fast broken chord in 32nd notes
• also 32nd note runs
• starts in F flat major and ends in F major (dominant key) and moves to the next section

Question 4

Answer the following for the music excerpt.

Title:
Composer:
Genre:
Form of the entire piece:

Which section is the excerpt part of?

Give two music features of this section.

Answer 4

Title: Polonaise in A flat major
Composer: Chopin
Genre: solo piano
Form of the entire piece: ABA (with introduction and coda)

Which section is the excerpt part of? The excerpt is section A.

Give two music features of this excerpt:
- right hand plays the main theme with the polonaise rhythm
- The theme has decorated notes such as grace notes
- the left hand plays octaves covering three octaves
- long sweeping ascending scale is heard three times in section A

Question 5

Listen and answer the following:

Composer
Title of the entire piece

Describe the music.

Answer 5

Composer: JS Bach

The Well-Tempered Clavier

(The tonal answer and countersubject of the Fugue from the Prelude and Fugue in B flat Major, BWV 866)

• tonal answer in the middle voice
• countersubject 1 in top voice

Question 6

Answer the following for the music excerpt.

Title:
Composer:
Genre:
Form of the entire piece:

Which section is the excerpt part of?

Give two music features of this section

Answer 6

Title: Polonaise in A flat major
Composer: Chopin
Genre: solo piano
Form of the entire piece: ABA (with introduction and coda)

Which section is the excerpt part of? The excerpt is section B.

Give two music features of section B:
- left hand plays staccato octaves
- dramatic dynamic changes from sf in the first note to pp in the ostinato
- strong dotted rhythm (polonaise rhythm) give martial (solider-like) character
- a new theme shows bel canto style and has rubato

Question 7

Listen and answer the following:

Composer
Title of the entire piece

Describe the music.

Answer 7

Composer: JS Bach

The Well-Tempered Clavier

(Section B of the Prelude portion of the Prelude and Fugue in B flat Major, BWV 866)

• extremely fast cadenza-like runs
• requires virtuosity (great skills) throughout
• improvisatory style contrasts with the controlled order demonstrated in the fugue

Question 8

Listen and answer the following:

Composer
Title of the entire piece

Describe the music.

Answer 8

Composer: JS Bach

The Well-Tempered Clavier

(The fugal Exposition of the Fugue from the Prelude and Fugue in B flat Major, BWV 866)

The subject in B flat major is a very long and in top voice

The subject has two motives - the first is disjunct and the second is conjunct.

(conjunct = melodies that are mostly stepwise)

(disjunct = melodies that have leaps and change of direction)

Question 9

Provide the following for the following Excerpt.

• Title of entire collection
• Title of the piece the excerpt is part of
• Composer
• What is the general style of this piece?
• How is variety is created in this excerpt?

Answer 9

• Music for Piano the entire collection
• Changes (beginning)
• Louie
• The piece is a minimalist style
• Variety is achieved by changes in the dynamics and accented notes played with the right-hand fifth finger, the

Question 10

Answer the following for the music excerpt.

Title:
Composer:
Genre:
Form of the entire piece:
Which section is the excerpt part of?

Give two music features of this excerpt

Answer 10

Title: Polonaise in A flat major
Composer: Chopin
Genre: solo piano
Form of the entire piece: ABA (with introduction and coda)

Which section is the excerpt part of? The excerpt is the introduction

Give two music features of this excerpt:
- Strong octave starts the piece
- soft chromatic ascending chords follow the strong octaves
- passage is repeated