Turandot
Key Signatures
Chord Names
Composers of the Month
Opera Terms
100

This is the instrument that needs to be sounded when a suitor accepts the challenge of Turandot's riddles.

What is a gong?

100

This is the order of sharps.

What is F-C-G-D-A-E-B?

100

This is the name of the ordering of triad when it is stacked in thirds.

What is root position?

100

This is the composer of the month who wrote Erlking.

Who is Schubert?

100

This is the name of the traditional opening number of an opera.

What is an overture?

200

This is the only blind character in Turandot.

Who is Timur?

200

This is often seen in the form of a diagram that shows the relationship between keys.

What is the circle of fifths?

200

This is the formula of a major triad in root position.

What is a Major third plus a minor third?

200

This is the composer of the month who wrote Candide.

Who is Leonard Bernstein?

200

This is the name of the lowest female voice type.

What is contralto?

300

This is the answer to Turandot's first riddle: every night it is born, and every morning it dies!

What is Hope?

300

This is key signature of E-flat Major.

What is three flats?

300

These are the numbers associated with first inversion.

What is 6? or 6/3?

300

This is the composer who wrote a great many keyboard sonatas.

Who is Domenico Scarlatti?

300

This is the name of the highest male voice type.

What is "countertenor"?

400

This is the riddle Calaf's gave to Turandot.

What is "what is my name"?

400

This is the key signature for F major!

What is one flat?
400

This is the formula for a dominant seventh chord.

What is a Major third plus a minor third plus a minor third?

or

What is a Major triad plus a minor third?

400

This is the composer of the month who learned composition from books because of society's inherent chauvinism.

Who is Amy Beach?

400

This is an adjective that means that the singer's voice has great agility.

What is "coloratura"?

500
This is the answer to Turandot's third riddle: "Ice that sets you on fire, and by your fire is made more icy"

What is Turandot?

500

This is the relative major for C minor.

What is E-flat major?

500

This is the name of a chord that is made from a minor third, a minor third, and a Major third

What is a half-diminished seventh?

500

This composer wrote Afternoon of the Faun and Pelleas et Melisande.

Who is Claude Debussy?

500

This is the name of the singer who sang the role of Turandot at the Met this year.

Who is Christine Goerke?

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