Music Theory
A diagram representing the relationship between the 12 tones of the chromatic scale.
What is the Circle of Fifths?
The method our early ancestors used to create music.
What is clapping?
An influential composer of 20th century music and the inventor of the 12-tone system.
Who is Schoenberg?
The most popular instrument.
Arguably one of the most iconic video gaming pieces of all time, it derives its theme from a Russian folk song.
What is Tetris?
The literal definition of the name of this era of music is "misshapen pearl"
What is Baroque?
The first music playing device to play music.
What is a phonograph?
The predominant musical figure in the transition period between the Classical and Romantic eras.
Who was Beethoven?
The highest sounding instrument in the woodwind family.
What is piccolo?
The first video game to feature music.
What is Pong?
The smallest interval in a chromatic scale, or the distance between any two notes on the piano keyboard.
What is a semitone?
A Greek philosopher that was said to have been the inventor of music.
Who is Pythagoras?
A violinist that was rumored to have sold his soul to the devil in order to achieve his astounding musical talent, nicknamed the "Devil's Violinist"
Who was Paganini?
An instrument that has 47 strings.
What is harp?
Instead of playing actual instrumental sounds because processors struggled to play it, this musical form was created.
What is 8 Bit?
The shifting of an entire piece or phrase of music into a different pitch/key.
What is transpose?
The time period when the first recovered piece of recorded music was found
What is 800 BCE?
A Baroque composer that made a great deal of money during his lifetime, but died very poor.
Who was Vivaldi?
A traditional Chinese instrument that has two strings.
What is erhu?
Audi famam illius Solus in hostes ruit Et patriam servavit is the starting phrase of this video game.
What is Super Smash Bros Brawl?
A type of scale built by starting another scale from a note other than its root.
What is a mode?
Considered to be the world's earliest melody.
What is the "Hurrian Hymn No. 6"?
A Classical composer that was born on the same year as George Washington (1732), and died the year Abraham Lincoln was born (1809)
Who was Haydn?
A small cello that can be played like a violin.
What is cello da spalla?
A line found in Francis Poulenc's "Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra" can be found within this game.
What is The Legend of Zelda?