MUSICAL THEATER
This Sondheim musical opens with “Comedy Tonight” and follows the schemes of the slave Pseudolus.
What is A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum?
This George Harrison composition was the first Beatles song to become the A-side of a U.K. single.
What is “Something”?
This Baroque composer wrote the Brandenburg Concertos and the Well-Tempered Clavier.
Who is J.S. Bach?
This Prince album and film share a title, with “When Doves Cry” serving as its lead single.
What is Purple Rain?
A chord spelled C–E–G–B♭ is this type of seventh chord.
What is a dominant seventh?
In West Side Story, this character sings “Maria” after falling in love at the dance.
Who is Tony?
This 1966 Beatles album contains no Lennon–McCartney song on its final track.
What is Revolver?
This symphony by Berlioz follows an artist through an opium-induced series of visions and uses a recurring musical theme called the idée fixe.
What is Symphonie fantastique?
The iconic bassline of this Michael Jackson song was performed by Louis Johnson of the Brothers Johnson.
What is “Billie Jean”?
When the melody of one musical idea is played upside-down in terms of its intervals, the technique is called this.
What is inversion?
This musical by Jason Robert Brown centers on Cathy and Jamie's relationship, with the two characters' timelines moving in opposite directions.
What is The Last Five Years?
This Beatles song uses a tape loop featuring a sped-up orchestral recording and ends with the famous phrase “I buried Paul.”
What is “Strawberry Fields Forever”?
This unfinished Schubert symphony is commonly identified by its key of B minor.
What is Symphony No. 8?
This 1971 Joni Mitchell album contains “A Case of You,” “River,” and “Carey.”
What is Blue?
A non-chord tone that is approached by step and left by step in the same direction is called this.
What is a passing tone?
This Stephen Sondheim musical takes its title from a painting by Georges Seurat and includes “Sunday” and “Finishing the Hat.”
What is Sunday in the Park with George?
This George Harrison composition on Abbey Road features the lyric “You know you had to have it.”
What is “I Want You”?
This Russian composer wrote the orchestral suite Pictures at an Exhibition after it was originally composed for piano by his colleague.
Who is Maurice Ravel?
This Radiohead album begins with “Everything in Its Right Place” and ends with “Motion Picture Soundtrack.”
What is Kid A?
In figured bass, a 4/2 seventh chord is in this inversion.
What is third inversion?
This 1960 musical, with music by Frank Loesser, features the songs “Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat” and “Luck Be a Lady.”
What is Guys and Dolls?
The final song in the famous Abbey Road medley is this short McCartney composition, following “Golden Slumbers” and “Carry That Weight.”
What is “The End”?
This 20th-century composer wrote The Rite of Spring, whose 1913 premiere famously provoked an unusually chaotic audience reaction.
Who is Igor Stravinsky?
This singer drowned in the Mississippi River after singing about drowning in multiple hits.
Who is Jeff Buckley?
In a major key, this scale degree is the leading tone.
What is scale degree 7?