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Ten Pieces - In The Hall Of The Mountain King
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Which other of our Ten Pieces was written in the same year, and also has a deliberate air of the supernatural about it?
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Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
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Mussorgsky's Night on the Bare Mountain
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Handel's Zadok the Priest
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Britten's 'Storm' Interlude
Q.2
In contrast to the Mussorgsky piece, what is the basic overall musical 'shape' of this one by Grieg?
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It starts fast and loud, and gradually grows slower and softer
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It starts slow and loud, and gradually grows faster but softer
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It starts fast and soft, and gradually grows slower and louder
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It starts slow and soft, and gradually grows quicker and louder
Q.3
Which woodwind instrument first plays the theme of ... ?
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The flute
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The saxophone
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The bassoon
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The clarinet
Q.4
Which of these Italian musical directions does NOT apply most of the way through the piece?
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Staccato
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Poco a poco accelerando
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Poco a poco crescendo
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Fortissimo
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One of the main ways to establish 'mood' in such a piece is by the composer's technical choice of key and mode. Which of these is the appropriate label for this present work?
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A major key
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A minor key
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Whole-tone scales
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Pentatonic scales
Q.6
Towards 2 minutes into the piece, which percussion instrument plays repeatedly on the off-beat (to ratchet-up the overall tension further)?
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The triangle
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The cymbals
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The gong
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The tambourine
Q.7
This piece is conceived as a grotesque version of which more 'normal' form of music?
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March
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Waltz
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Polka
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Minuet
Q.8
Grieg wrote the piece as part of a suite of 'incidental music' (like a forerunner of the film-score, or the integral accompaniment to a Broadway-style stage musical) for a play by Norway's greatest playwright, who was ~ and remains ~ well respected in his own right, and was a great friend and encourager of the composer (then in his mid-20s). Who was the dramatist?
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Henrik Ibsen
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Nils Gade
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Ole Bull
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Hugo Alfven
Q.9
Which instrument creates the dramatic rumbling sound just before the final huge chord?
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The bass drum
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The kettledrum
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The gong
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The double-basses
Q.10
... And which instrument/s started the whole huge piece off? (You may need to listen very carefully)
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The violas
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The horns
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The harp
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The drums
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