Young Person'S Guide To The Orchestra Listening Map

Question: Listening Map 1: The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra

Answer: Composer: Benjamin Britten

Form: Orchestra Work

Meter: triple

Tempo: Stately, dance like

Scoring: Full Orchestra

Written in: 1946

Question: Listening Map 2: The Stars and Stripes Forever

Answer: Composer: Sousa

Form: March

Meter: Quadruple

Tempo: march-like

Scoring: Brass Band

Written in: 1897

Question: Listening Map 3: Viderunt omnes (All the Ends of the Earth)

Answer: Composer: Anonymous

Form: ABA

Texture: Monophonic

Genre: Plainchant

Scoring: Voices

Written in: Fifth Century

Question: Listening Map 4: O Viridissima (O Greenest Branch)

Answer: Composer: Hildegard

Genre: Plainchant

Texture: Monophonic

Written in: Twelfth Century

Question: Listening Map 5: First Respond from Viderunt omnes (All the Ends of the Earth)

Answer: Composer: Leonin

Genre: Organum

Texture: Polyphony alternating with monophony

Form:ABA

Written in: Twelfth Century

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