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Gap exercise No.3

Gap-fill exercise

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Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!
In this question you are asked to insert the missing concepts in the spaces provided.
Listen to the music three times if necessary.


30Cloze3.mp3

The music begins with string instruments playing in a key and has beats in a bar.
Woodwind instruments enter and their phrase ends with a tempo change, a , before a short phrase played by .
A similar section follows which leads to the ending of the excerpt when there is a conversation between firstly and then , both members of the woodwind family.
As these final woodwind instruments end their phrase there is use of in the tempo of the music.
The most prominent feature of the excerpt is the use on in the tempo of almost every phrase.
The excerpt is the start of the first movement of a , a work in four movements for symphony orchestra in music which reflects the music of the country of the composer and usually referred to as being .