Which string technique is used in the violins and cellos in bar 32?
Pizzicato. There is also double stopping in the violins.
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Where does the clarinet use its lowest register, and what is this register called?
Bar 48, the clarinet uses its chalumeau register to play broken chords.
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Where do all the strings play with a bow?
Bar 53. The technique of playing a stringed instrument with a bow is called arco.
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How do the strings change their playing style in the final section?
They use mutes.
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What do the circles above some of the notes in the harp part indicate?
That the harp needs to play harmonics.
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Which is the most technically demanding part of the viola?
The semiquaver staccato writing with alternating pitches an octave apart (from bar 99).
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Where is the main melodic material?
In the opening passage (from bar 4 onwards). It is played in octaves by the 1st oboe and the piccolo (which sounds an octave higher than written.
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What does the accompaniment from bar 1 consist of?
A drone (double pedal) on C and G using long notes in the 2nd oboe, clarinets, and bassoon. The violins play the same notes, but to a different rhythm.
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Which instrument maintains a pedal C throughout the opening section?
The bassoon.
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In bar 32, which instrument plays the serenade theme?
The solo cor anglais, the strings provide a homophonic accompaniment, the violas play broken chords.
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Where does the woodwind section play the main melody?
In bar 53. Strings play a chromatic countermelody in octaves, while second clarinet and first horn provide a third part.
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What do the horns do at bar 60?
They play a horn-call version of part of the serenade theme in 3rds and 6ths.
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Which bar is the accompaniment in bar 60 similar to?
Bar 32.
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In bar 65, which instrument provides an additional strand?
The viola, playing the idee fixe in long notes.
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Where is there a brief dialogue between woodwind instruments?
In bars 79-85, beginning with cor anglais and oboe, then clarinet, flute and piccolo and finally bassoons, playing in octaves.
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What happens to the themes in bar 166?
Berlioz combines various themes which were previously heard separately.
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What is notable about the themes in bar 166?
The opening drone accompaniment (violas), the idee fixe in the flute (doubled by harp harmonics) in much longer notes than before, and the serenade theme (viola solo).
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In which bars does the serenade theme appear monophonically?
Bars 202-206, in the solo viola part.
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Where is there a brief visit to G major?
In bars 88-96.
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Where does the serenade theme return?
Bar 123.
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Where are diminished 7th chords used?
Bar 82.
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With pedals, there are normally changes of harmony which create dissonance.Where is this seen?
In bar 14 (with a V chord) and bar 19 (with a V7 chord).
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Where is there a perfect cadence in the serenade section (starting at bar 32)?
In bars 46-7.
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Where is there a strange progression involving Ic and V in A minor?
In between the 5 bars of C major chord I and the perfect cadence in bars 46-7. There is no cadence in this key.
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Where does the serenade become more chromatic?
From bar 51 onwards, especially the very original and striking bars 53-59.
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Which part carries the main melody?
The cor anglais (which sounds a 5th below written pitch).
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Where is the idee fixe introduced, and by which instrument?
The viola introduces the idee fixe in bar 65.
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What is notable about the use of the ppp dynamic towards the end of the work?
The ppp figure in bars 194-5 sounds even quieter when the music is repeated an octave lower in bars 195-6.
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Where is the 3/4 idea ornamented?
In bar 132, the 3/4 idea is ornamented with semiquavers.
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Where can triplet semiquavers be found?
Bar 77, they sound almost like mordents.
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Where is there a hint of rhythmic augmentation?
In the solo viola part at bar 192, as the semiquavers of the final motif (bars 189-191) become quavers too, to complete the phrase.
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
Where does the clarinet use its lowest register, and what is this register called?
Back
Bar 48, the clarinet uses its chalumeau register to play broken chords.
Card 3
Front
Where do all the strings play with a bow?
Back
Card 4
Front
How do the strings change their playing style in the final section?
Back
Card 5
Front
What do the circles above some of the notes in the harp part indicate?
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