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WorksheetsListening for Form
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 4mins
What is musical form?
An organising principle for music composition and comprehension
Musical structure and compositional templates
Indicator/determiner of genre
Compositional structures of self-sufficiency and unity in music
Who wrote that 'theory of form [is] a description of genres'?
Carl Dahlhaus
Arnold Whittall
Arnold Schoenberg
Susanne K. Langer
What year was A.B. Marx's Die Lehre von der musikalischen Kompositions published?
1817
1827
1837
1847
According to Marx, what makes sonata form superior to other musical forms?
Facilitates dramatic contrast
Highest example of musical organicism
Adherence to narrative structures
Favours development over contrast
Which anti-Formenlehre scholar wrote that sonata form was 'dominated by active sense of movement, not architectural nor cosmically epic but dramatic’'
Donald Francis Tovey
Hugo Riemann
Ernst Kurth
Edward T. Cone
According to Ernst Kurth, what is Erformung?
The mental formation of form's spatial parameters
The process of understanding form through multiple temporal strands or 'multi-track listening'
The idea that music is only intelligible via formal processes
Which two movement-based concepts did Kurth employ in his Erformung analyses?
Bewegung (motion)
Schwellung (swelling)
Wellen (waves)
Zurückweichend (receding)
This piece of music is which movement from which Bruckner symphony?
Symphony No. 7, Movement 1: Allegro Moderato
Symphony No. 6, Movement 4: Bewegt, doch nicht zu schnell
Symphony No. 3, Movement 4: Ziemlich schnell
Symphony No. 8, Movement 4: Feierlich, nicht schnell
Alban Berg's 1925 opera Wozzeck is organised under which tonal system?
Atonality/free atonality
Twelve-tone serialism
Act 2, Scene I of Wozzeck (Marie sings her to child) is structured via which of these 'archaic' musical forms?
Passacaglia
Theme and Variations
Sonata Form
Fugue and Fantastia
Why did Berg structure Wozzeck using such 'archaic' forms when the opera is otherwise so radical for the 1920s?
Solution to dilemma of large-scale coherence without functional harmony
Schoenberg discouraged formal innovation beyond tonality
Ran out of time during planning stage of composition
'Concealing' formal structures to enhance 'idea of the opera'
Which postwar modernist composer described moment form as 'the concentration on the present moment [that] can make a vertical cut across horizontal time perception, extending out to a timelessness I call eternity'
Roger Smalley
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Henri Dutielleux
Franco Donatoni
What are some of the key tenets of moment form?
Strict succession
Polyvalent/non-hierarchical approach
Interpreter intention
Autonomy
Which of these songs are structured in 'AABA' form?
Shake, Rattle and Roll (Bill Haley and the Comets)
Surfer Girl (The Beach Boys)
Penny Lane (The Beatles)
Every Breath You Take (The Police)
