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Ten Pieces - A Night On The Bare Mountain
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Q.1
Which instrument is used to mark the moment of midnight?
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The gong
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The tubular bells (or rather, just one of them)
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The cymbals
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The horn
Q.2
When Walt Disney put together a series of musical pieces (including this one as its grand finale) with moving cartoon images in colour, in 1940, what was the title of the film?
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Silly Symphonies
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Toccata and Fugue
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Fantasia
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Sound Surround
Q.3
Also as with , was not originally written by Mussorgsky as an orchestral piece: the orchestral version (in this case) was arranged by one of his friends in the composers' circle known as 'the Five'. Which of them did it?
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Miliy Balakirev
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Cesar Cui
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Alexander Borodin
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Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Q.4
In an age before films etc. as we now know and love them, colourful orchestral pieces such as developed as a spectacular, dramatic way of catching an audience's imagination. If the piece set out to 'tell a story' it was known as Programme Music, but the orchestral form was known by a further special label. What are such pieces (like Sibelius' later ) called?
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Orchestral pictures
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Sound stories
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Tone poems
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Musical movies
Q.5
On what occasion is the supposed to have taken place?
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The night of St John's Day, very shortly after midsummer
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Hallowe'en
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The autumn equinox (late September)
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Midwinter
Q.6
There is another 'Bald Mountain' outside Vienna, but where is the one in this piece supposed to be?
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In ancient Greece
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Near Kiev in Ukraine
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In the Russian Steppes
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In the Alps
Q.7
Which section of the orchestra is used early on to suggest the sound of the scampering witches?
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The lower strings
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The percussion
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The upper woodwinds
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The brass
Q.8
40 or so years before this piece was ever heard, another composer had written an orchestral 'movement' depicting (as this one also does) a 'witches' sabbath', using not-dissimilar musical effects at certain points. What was this other earlier work?
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Beethoven's 7th Symphony
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Hector Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique
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Paradise Lost in a setting by Haydn
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An opera by Verdi
Q.9
Which of these instruments is used in the piece, apart from the 'regular' sections of the orchestra?
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Piano
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Celesta
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Harp
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Organ
Q.10
Which of these best describes the overall shape of the piece?
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It begins slowly and quietly, and gradually grows louder and faster
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It begins slowly and loudly, then becomes faster but quieter towards the end
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It starts quickly and quietly, then grows slower and louder
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It starts quickly and loud, then ends slowly and calmly
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