Due: March 12
Listen to the following pieces and answer the following:
1. For the first three selections, describe the place or tell the story about which each piece is composed.
2. For the final two selections (the Dvorak and Brahms), draw a map (hand drawn)of Europe showing where Slovakia and Hungary are located. Be sure to draw each of the European countries and label them. You may outline the map of Europe by tracing, but the individual countries should be drawn free hand. These dances are orchestra arrangements of traditional Slovakian and Hungarian dances which the composers grew up with and were familiar with. They then wrote a series of dances in honor of their homeland's folk music. Later on, both Dvorak and Brahms, but request of their publishers, wrote arrangements for piano for that the pieces could be played by people in their own homes.
The Moldau by Bedrich Smetana:
Finlandia by Jean Sibelius:
In the Hall of the Mountain King by Edward Grieg:
Slavonic Dance No. 8 by Antonin Dvorak
Hungarian Dance No 5 by Johannes Brahms
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