Berlioz Trivia
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True or False
Music Vocabulary
100
Where was Hector Berlioz born?
France
La Cote-Saint-Andre to be specific
100
What instrument family does the Viola belong to?
The String Family
100
What does two half-steps equal?
A whole step!
100
The tonic is the first note of a scale
TRUE
100
What is the FIRST note of a scale or position called?
The TONIC
200
When he was 18, Hector Berlioz moved to Paris to study WHAT?
Medicine - His father very much wanted him to become a doctor.
200
Name two instruments of the string family
Must say - violin, viola, cello, bass, guitar, harp, etc.
200
Which is bigger? The violin or the viola?
VIOLA!
200
The Viola reads music in a special clef called the C clef
TRUE! 
200
What is the 5th note of a scale called?
DOMINANT
300
What work by William Shakespeare inspired a piece by Berlioz?
Romeo and Juliet
300
How far apart are the strings of the viola? (What musical interval?)
A fifth: C, G, D, A
300
The original Latin word for scale is "Scala." What did this mean in latin?
LADDER!
300
True or False - a NATURAL is always a white key. . .
TRUE! If something has been flat or sharp, the Natural sign makes it return to the white key!
300
Which step of the scale is a leading tone?
The seventh - because it always "leads" to tonic.
400
Berlioz became well known for what job within the music community?
He was a music CRITIC - someone who attends performances and says what they like and dislike about the performance, conductor, composer, or performer(s).
400
Name one instrument that Berlioz played: hint - not the piano!
Recorder, flute, guitar.
400
This music theory tool is like a map of the key signatures. What is it called?
The Circle of Fifths
400
Berlioz' family was supportive of his musical career
FALSE! They actually "cut him off" financially!
400
What is the correct pattern for a MAJOR SCALE?
W W H W W W H
500
Berlioz' most famous piece of music, "Symphonie Fantastique'" was inspired by what or whom?
A famous actress - Harriet Smithson. The piece was meant to tell the story of an artist suffering due to a hopeless, unreturned love. 
500
Symphonie Fantastique was not a popular piece of music until Liszt rewrote it for solo performance on what instrument?
PIANO!
500
What famous American music school did Rosina Lhevinne teach at?
Juilliard. Even in her old age, she was playing with famous orchestras and conductors.
500
Berlioz never won the "Prix de Rome," a world-wide composition contest.
FALSE - after entering many many times, he eventually won for a cantata of his - "The Death of Cleopatra"
500
Name the order of sharps -
or the order of flats!
or both!
