Composers
The composer of Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.
Who is W.A. Mozart?
This composer's death marked the end of the Baroque.
Who is J.S. Bach?
The major key with three sharps.
What is A major?
A tempo marking that literally means "cheerful."
What is Allegro?
This composer had 20 children.
Who is J.S. Bach?
This composer ended his career almost completely deaf.
Who is Beethoven?
This teacher and composer was the "grandmother" of 20th c. music.
Who is Nadia Boulanger?
The dominant of B-flat major.
What is F?
This Italian term means to play something "heavy"
What is Pesante?
This piece caused a riot at its first premiere.
What is Stravinsky's Rite of Spring?
This composer and pianist was the main breadwinner for her family through her concertizing and compositions and her husband was also a composer.
Who is Clara Wieck Schumann?
This group of composers was instrumental to the development of the symphony and includes the Father of that genre.
What is The First Viennese School?
The three major sections of the Sonata form.
What is Exposition, Development and Recapitulation?
An Italian mood indication meaning the passage should be played in a playful manner
What is Giocoso OR Scherzando?
This Indonesian style of music inspired Debussy when he encountered it at the World's Fair
What is Javanese Gamelan?
The inventor of the Nocturne.
Who is John Field?
A musical movement that preached a composer could evoke an involuntary emotional response with their music.
What is The Doctrine of Affections?
This compositional technique involves two or more independent voices.
What is counterpoint?
This German tempo marking means "very fast"
What is Sehr Rasch?
The fastest speed in BPM on a standard mechanical metronome.
What is 208?
The members of the Mighty Five.
Who are Balakirev, Borodin, Cui, Mussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov?
The first opera was composed in this year.
Bonus: Name the composer and/or title.
What is 1600? (Monteverdi's Orfeo)
A 20th c. compositional technique that uses a matrix.
What is 12-tone technique or serialism?
This term refers to a musical idea associated with a certain character. Often used in movie soundtracks.
What is Leitmotif?
This Gregorian chant melody has been quoted many, many times by Sergei Rachmaninoff and many, many other composers.
What is Dies Irae?