Nuages

Question 1

What bars is rotation 1

Answer 1

1 to 10

Question 2

Describe the x motif

Answer 2

2 part texture in octaves with falling 2nds and 3rds

Question 3

What 2 potential time signatures could the x motif be

Answer 3

3/2 or 6/4

Question 4

What happens in the oboe in bar 3 of x motif

Answer 4

A hemiola

Question 5

What instruments play x motif

Answer 5

Reed instruments

Question 6

What 2 scales make up the x motif

Answer 6

B octatonic and B harmonic minor

Question 7

What bars is the x motif

Answer 7

1 to 4

Question 8

In the x motif what bars are repeated

Answer 8

Bar 1 is played twice then bar 3 is played twice

Question 9

What bars are the y motif

Answer 9

5 to 10

Question 10

What instrument plays the foghorn motif

Answer 10

Cor Anglais

Question 11

What time signature is the y motif and what time signature does the cor anglais play within it

Answer 11

Y motif in 6/4 with cor anglais in 4/4

Question 12

What scale is the y motif

Answer 12

Octatonic

Question 13

What chord accompanies y motif

Answer 13

G7

Question 14

During the y motif what note does the timpani drum roll

Answer 14

B

Question 15

Cor Anglais range in y motif

Answer 15

Range of a tritone (typical of octatonic writing)

Question 16

What bars is rotation 2

Answer 16

11 to 28 (y at bar 21)

Question 17

What happens in the double bass in bar 15

Answer 17

Pizzicato perfect 5ths

Question 18

Opening texture of rotation 2

Answer 18

Still 2 part texture but doubled in 3 octaves

Question 19

When is three part texture first introduced

Answer 19

Bar 13

Question 20

What scales are in bars 25 to 28

Answer 20

Wholetone and octatonic (could be described as G acoustic scale)

Question 21

What chord accompanies y motif in rotation 2

Answer 21

G9 in strings

Question 22

Does the y motif span the same range in rotation 2 as rotation 1

Answer 22

Yes (tritone)

Question 23

Bar 14 rotation 2

Answer 23

Falling parallel dominant 9ths

Question 24

What bars is rotation 3

Answer 24

29 to 56 , y starts at bar 43

Question 25

What chords are often used in rotation 3

Answer 25

Simple triads

Question 26

Bars 31 and 32 chords

Answer 26

C major acting as resolution to previous G9 chord

Question 27

Examples of octatonic elements in rotation 3

Answer 27

Bars 37 to 38 and bars 40 to 41

Question 28

In bars 40 to 41 what tine signature is used in the strings

Answer 28

6/4

Question 29

Bars 39 to 41 in wind

Answer 29

More sequential writing

Question 30

Length of rotation 3 compared to rotations 1 and 2

Answer 30

Rotation three is 28 bars which is length of 1 and 2 put together

Question 31

What intervals is the melody of rotation 3 mostly made up of

Answer 31

2nds and perfect 4ths

Question 32

Bar 33 melody

Answer 32

Melody is in lower strings and sequential. Also wholetone but with passing notes

Question 33

Bar 51 cor anglais

Answer 33

Cor anglais in 6/4 for the first time

Question 34

New horn countermelody in y of rotation 3 rythm

Answer 34

Triplets

Question 35

Double bass in bars 51 to 55

Answer 35

Descending baseline outlining tritone interval

Question 36

What bars is rotation 4

Answer 36

57 to 93

Question 37

What scale does the solo viola in bar 58 utilise

Answer 37

Chromatic

Question 38

What do bar 61 and 63 share in common with bar 14

Answer 38

Descending dominant 7ths

Question 39

What bar rotation 4 uses an enharmonic change?

Answer 39

Bar 77

Question 40

What is used in the melody in bar 79

Answer 40

Fragments of pentatonic melody

Question 41

What bar in rotation 4 does y start in

Answer 41

Bar 79

Question 42

What chord does y of rotation 4 start with

Answer 42

G7 - becomes a C#7 at bar 82 and then an E7 at bar 86

Question 43

What bar does the falling tritone melody from rotation 2 return in rotation 4

Answer 43

Bar 82

Question 44

What bar of rotation 4 does the Cor Anglais return to 6/4v in

Answer 44

Bar 88

Question 45

What devices do the strings use differently in y of rotation 4

Answer 45

Tremolos, sur la touche, harmonics and divisi

Question 46

What bars of rotation 4 make use of some wholetone interjections

Answer 46

62 and 66

Question 47

What instruments at bar 64 play a pentatonic melody

Answer 47

Flute and harp

Question 48

What cadence is implied at bar 66

Answer 48

Plagal - D# to G#

Question 49

What bars is rotation 5 (the final rotation)

Answer 49

94 to 102

Question 50

What two notes do times and double bass repeat at the end of the piece

Answer 50

D and B (almost cadential)

Question 51

What happens to x in rotation 5

Answer 51

Becomes more chromatic and dark - low grumbling timbre

Question 52

Bar 23 use in rotation 5

Answer 52

Bar 23 uses French horn tritone motif which makes up melody of y motif in rotation 5

Question 53

Use of orchestra points

Answer 53

-Strings often muted, divisi or Sur la touche -Use of pizz in strings at the end and in accompaniment of y of rotation 3 -Only horns (often muted) and timpani as brass and percussion -Wind often plays melodies -Cor Anglais presents y material -Flutes and harps only in "B section"

Question 54

Names of two forms that it can be argued the piece is in

Answer 54

Rotational and ternary

Question 55

Reasons it could be ternary form

Answer 55

-64 is in a new key of D# (Start of B) -New timbres of flute and harp added in "B" -At firt glance the melody of "B" is new -

Question 56

Reasons it isn't ternary form

Answer 56

-Final A section is short enough to be a coda -Melody at 64 is clearly a developed version of opening 4 bars -Pentatonic elements are also used in opening section eg bars 15 to 16 -Rotational form is a better fit

Question 57

What is the tonal centre of this piece?

Answer 57

B

Question 57

What is rotational form

Answer 57

Where a few themes are repeated throughout a piece but developed each time

Question 57

What bars use a dorian mode

Answer 57

Bars 19 to 20 (Eb9 with elements of Bb dorian)

Question 58

What pentatonic scales are used at bars 14 to 16

Answer 58

Eb and Gm

Question 59

Bars using wholetone

Answer 59

Bars 62 and 66 and rotation 3

Question 60

What do the falling parallel dominant 9ths from bar 14 become in bars 61 and 63

Answer 60

falling parallel dominant 7ths

Question 61

Bar 64 scale

Answer 61

Pentatonic D#

Question 62

Most y sections use an ---------- scale

Answer 62

Octatonic