Q.1.
Which instrument is used to mark the moment of midnight?
Q.2.
When Walt Disney put together a series of musical pieces (including this one as its grand finale) with moving cartoon images in colour, in 1940, what was the title of the film?
Q.3.
Also as with , was not originally written by Mussorgsky as an orchestral piece: the orchestral version (in this case) was arranged by one of his friends in the composers' circle known as 'the Five'. Which of them did it?
Q.4.
In an age before films etc. as we now know and love them, colourful orchestral pieces such as developed as a spectacular, dramatic way of catching an audience's imagination. If the piece set out to 'tell a story' it was known as Programme Music, but the orchestral form was known by a further special label. What are such pieces (like Sibelius' later ) called?
Q.5.
On what occasion is the supposed to have taken place?
Q.6.
There is another 'Bald Mountain' outside Vienna, but where is the one in this piece supposed to be?
Q.7.
Which section of the orchestra is used early on to suggest the sound of the scampering witches?
Q.8.
40 or so years before this piece was ever heard, another composer had written an orchestral 'movement' depicting (as this one also does) a 'witches' sabbath', using not-dissimilar musical effects at certain points. What was this other earlier work?
Q.9.
Which of these instruments is used in the piece, apart from the 'regular' sections of the orchestra?
Q.10.
Which of these best describes the overall shape of the piece?