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Programme music

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

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Class
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1.

Romantic composers were particularly attracted to program music- instrumental music associated with a __________, poem, idea, or scene

a)

Story

b)

Idea

c)

Incident

d)

event

2.

1. It has a composition in numerous movements. It’s name implies, it is a symphony with a program.

 

a)

Program Symphony

b)

Concert Overture

c)

Symphonic Poem

d)

Incidental Music

3.

2. It intends to accompany the action or mood of a dramatic stage performance.

 

a)

Program Symphony

b)

Concert Overture

c)

Symphonic Poem

d)

Incidental Music

4.

3. It was invented by Franz Liszt in the late 1840’s and 1850’s and became the most significant type of program music after 1860.

 

a)

Program Symphony

b)

Concert Overture

c)

Symphonic Poem

d)

incidental Music

5.

4. It only consists of one movement and usually in sonata form.

 

a)

Program Symphony

b)

Concert Overture

c)

Symphonic Poem

d)

Incidental Music

6.

5. It tells a story that conveys images, poems, ideas, or scenes without word.

 

a)

Hip-Hop Music

b)

Acoustic Music

c)

Program Music

d)

Romance Music

7.

It is the other term for tone poem.

a)

symphonic tone

b)

symphonic poem

c)

symphonic music

8.

It plays the background music for selected parts of a stage play.

a)

symphonic music

b)

program symphony

c)

incidental music

9.

It is an independent composition and not intended to accompany a stage production.

a)

incidental music

b)

concert overture

c)

symphonie fantastique

10.

It is considered as the most powerful composition of the nineteenth-century program music and complete in its form.

a)

symphonie fantastique

b)

program symhony

c)

symphony poem

11.

It is the musical form of Symphonie Fantastique of Berlioz.

a)

concert overture

b)

symphonic poem

c)

program symphony

12.

What is programme music or program music?

a)

is a stylistic movement in Western Classical music associated with the period of the 19th century commonly referred to as the Romantic era

b)

is a type of instrumental art music that attempts to render an extra-musical narrative musically. The narrative itself might be offered to the audience through the piece's title, or in the form of program notes, inviting imaginative correlations with the music.

c)

is a style of Western classical music from approximately 1600 to 1750 originated in Western Europe.

d)

is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry.

13.

The work Pictures at an Exhibition was composed by

a)

Modest Mussorgsky

b)

Edvard Grieg

c)

Franz Liszt

d)

Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf

14.

Type of instrumental music that was composed based on an external source such as a poem or image.

a)

Character piece

b)

Motete

c)

Program music

d)

Sonata

15.

Which of the following is not a common feature of Nocturnes?

a)

The use of lyrical melodies

b)

Frequent use of the sustain pedal.

c)

Broken chord accompaniment

d)

The use of Alberti Bass