General Knowledge
Which island nation, producing Sea Pictures (Sir Edward Elgar) and Songs of the Sea (Sir Charles Villiers Stanford), were the leaders of setting poetry to music in orchestral performances?
Britain
Where was it first performed?
1904 Leeds Festival
Who was it written by?
Libby Larsen
The person who wrote it is a women
Symphony, Water Music
What did Debussy add to his orchestra to represent Sirens in his play Sirènes?
Female vocalists whose purpose wasn’t to sing lyrics but to sing siren songs.
What is significant about the word Sea in this song?
They shift to D major which creates this shift of tone
What is it nicknamed?
Clue: Its Italian
Schezo
Has women in this symphony
BOTH
John Luther Adams’ Become Ocean (2013) was named after and created to address what concern?
Environmental change (Global warming and the melting of the ice caps)
Is it rythmic or harmonic?
Rhythmic- There is a rhythm to what he is trying to tell the listener
What instrument is muted at the beginning?
Trumpets
It has no lyrics
Symphony, Water Music
What popular and rapidly evolving instrument was used by composers of the Romantic Era to make programmatic music, which was a genre of music with no vocals?
The piano
How many sections can it be broken into?
8
What inspired her to write symphony water music?
The residency at the Minnesota orchestra with the ensemble
Consists of mostly woodwind instruments and trumpets
Symphony, Water Music
What type of “band” grew massively during the 19th century, introducing both more people and instruments (e.g. piccolo, tuba, percussion)?
Orchestras
Who made it?
Ralph Vaughn Williams
Libby's experience with water was based off where?
Lake Harriet in southwest Minneapolis
It has lyrics
The Sea Symphony