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Question #1

Instrumental music that has some literary or pictorial association is called:

A. aleatoric music

B. program music

C. absolute music

Question #2

Music lacking any literary or pictorial association is called:

A. program music

B. incidental music

C. absolute music

Question #3

The inspiration for Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique was:

A. the actress Harriet Smithson

B. the writer George Sand

C. the composer Clara Schumann

Question #4

The main theme, heard transformed in each movement of the Symphonie fantastique, is called:

A. the idée fixe

B. the subject

C. the Dies irae

Question #5

Which best describes the character of the fourth movement of Symphonie fantastique?

A. a diabolical march

B. a witches' orgy

C. a pastoral scene

Question #6

What does the loud chord immediately after the statement of the idée fixe in the solo clarinet at the end of the fourth movement in Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique represent?

A. the witches at the composer’s funeral

B. the last image of his beloved

C. the falling of the guillotine’s blade

Question #7

In which movement is the Dies irae (Day of Wrath) theme from the Mass for the Dead heard?

A. the first

B. the fourth

C. the fifth

Question #8

Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique exemplifies the type of program music known as:

A. the symphonic poem

B. the concert overture

C. the program symphony

Question #9

Which of the following is NOT true about Hector Berlioz?

A. He was a German Romantic composer.

B. Some of his works have a literary basis.

C. He was a genius at orchestration.

Question #10

The character development in Symfonie fantastique is realized musically through the thematic development of the_______.

A. idée fixe

B. program

C. contrabassoon

Question #11

One of Berlioz’s key innovations was his orchestration effects.

A. FALSE

B. TRUE

Question #12

Hector Berlioz looked to the writings of Shakespeare as the basis for both operas and symphonic works.

A. TRUE

B. FALSE

Question #13

Music that is designed without intended literary or pictorial meanings is called program music.