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LISTENING:

Rome Pines

Ottorino Respighi

Date:

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Total score:

38

Personale score:

1.

two points

score:

Are the sonorities of the first piece, Villa Borghese pines” clear or dark?

2.

two points

score:

Are the timbres of the instruments played by Respighi in the first piece acute (high) or grave (low)?

3.

three points

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What do you think listening the musical themes played in the first piece?

In your opinion why did the composer think to introduce them?

4.

two points

score:

In your opinion, which are the sonorities in the second piece, “pines near catacomb”, clear or dark?

5.

two points

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Which is the soloist instrument that performs the expressive and almost religions theme you listen in “pines near a catacomb”?

6.

two points

score:

Show the development of “pines near a catacomb”:

a)      light sonority and all the piece softly

b)      softly at the beginning and loud in the end

c)      Softly at the beginning, in a crescendo until loud in the central part, in a diminuendo in the final part.

7.

two points

score:

Do you know the instrument that begins the third piece “pines at Gianicolo”?

8.

three points

score:

Show the instruments you know in the piece that describes “pines at Gianicolo”

9.

two points

 score:

In “Pines ad Gianicolo” what is the typical resonant element introduced in the final part and that belongs to the concrete music?

10.

two points

score:

Is the rhythm of the last piece slow and expressive or marked, solemn and imposing?

11.

two points

score:

In “Pines at Appia street” the rhythm is performed by percussion instruments, one of them, in particular, is constant from beginning to end. Do yow know it?

12.

two points

score:

What is the typical development of “Pines at Appia street”?

13.

three points

score:

Choose for every part you listened the word (or words) that shows better its character:

• sweet,

• descriptive,

• dramatic,

• sad,

• happy,

• martial,

• joyful,

• triumphal,

• heroic

First part “Villa Borghese pines”:

Second part “pines near a catacomb”:

Third part “pines at Gianicolo”:

Fourth part “Pines at Appia street”:  

14.

three points

score:

Try to explain with personal words what is a Simphonic poem?

15.

three points

score:

After listening “Rome pines” do you think it was performed by a small or full orchestra?