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Ten Pieces - The Firebird Suite - Finale
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Q.1
What is the technical term for the 'glide' (usually upwards) played by a harpist ~ as, here, 30-and-a-few seconds into the performance?
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Crescendo
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Glissando
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Sforzando
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Rallentando
Q.2
How many separate harp parts are going on within all this, in the original version?
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Just one
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A couple
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Three
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Four
Q.3
The piece was originally the last section within a longer work: what kind of work?
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Opera
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Oratorio
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Symphony
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Ballet
Q.4
At around 1'45" the tune is 'thrown around' more boldly between some more noble and assertive instruments: which are they?
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Bassoon and cymbals
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Trumpets and kettledrums
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Horns and castanets
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Guitars and drums
Q.5
Which is the correct order in which these instruments are significantly heard in the first minute of the piece?
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Flute, harp, strings (violins), horn
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Harp, horn, violins, flute
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Horn, harp, violins, flute
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Violins, flute, horn, harp
Q.6
During the long opening buildup of this piece, many of the instruments play not just 'straight' notes, but with a quivering texture according to their technique (jiggling their bows, fluttering their tongues or whatever). This helps create a sense of excitement and tension, perhaps even of the sight of the Firebird rising amid flickering flame. What is the technical musical term for such a manner of playing?
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Trill
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Tremolando
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Aquiver
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Shaken
Q.7
Appropriately, this music was used to accompany the lighting of the torch at a recent Olympiad ... in which year and city?
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Beijing 2008
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Vancouver 2010 (winter)
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London 2012
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Sochi 2014 (winter)
Q.8
The underlying rhythm in the early stages of this piece is steady but very relaxed. How many beats are there to the bar?
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Six
Q.9
What was the name of the Russian ballet boss who commissioned Stravinsky to write , which in turn was the composer's 'breakthrough' piece into the musical world of Paris and beyond?
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Artur Rubinstein
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Sergei Diaghilev
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Pablo Picasso
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Anatoly Nikinsky
Q.10
Sometimes in music a pattern 'gets stuck' (like the repeated rhythm in Holst's ); sometimes one note or pitch clings on while the rest of the music rises or drops against it. In the Finale there is a lowish drone early on, but the last-but-one chord (just before the 3-minute mark) arrives while the trumpets have been hanging onto one note against all opposition. What is the technical term for such a musical device?
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Ostinato
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Pedal
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Tenuto
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Crescendo
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