Music Theory Terms
What is the speed of a piece is indicated through?
Tempo
What play was by Aaron Copland that was best known for the section Traditional Shaker hymn "Simple Gifts"
Appalachian Spring
What is it called to have a set of detailed instructions for solving a problem?
Algorithm
Capital of Algeria?
Algiers
What wind instrument has a high solo at the beginning of The Rite of Spring and represents the Grandfather in Peter and the Wolf?
Bassoon
What are the two scales in music?
Major and Minor
Billy The Kid was made by the person that made Appalachian Spring
Aaron Copland
What is it called to have a technique used in some algorithms?
Recursion
Capital of Djibouti?
Djibouti
In what repetitive Maurice Ravel piece does the snare drum play a constant pattern underneath one long crescendo?
Bolero
What is the distance between two pitches?
Intervals
Who made The Creation of the World. He took a trip to the U.S. that also inspired him to write this play in 1922.
Darius Milhaud
What is it called to have mathematical concept often used in algorithms?
Graph
Capital of Guinea-Bissau?
Bissau
Jean Sibelius was a nationalist composer from what country, whose folklore inspired his tone poem “The Swan of Tuonela”?
Finland
What is it called when instruments are in concert pitch?
Transposition
Which ballet did Ludwig van Beethoven make this ballet in 1801. In the ballet two statues come to life Prometheus then takes them to parnassus.
The Creatures of Prometheus
What is it called to have a way to write algorithms and other instructions in a way?
Programming Language
Capital of Libya?
Tripoli
What German composer was inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche to write the tone poem Also Sprach Zarathustra?
Richard Strauss
What is it called when you have various techniques?
Articulation
Who wrote Fancy Free this ballet depicts the antics of three sailors on shore leave in New York City.
Leonard Bernstein
What is it called when referring to how the type of data a variable holds is defined and can or can't change?
Typing
Capital of Madagascar?
Antananarivo
A Henry Purcell melody forms the basis of what composerʹs The Young Personʹs Guide To The Orchestra?
Benjamin Britten