This is a drama or play in which most talking by actors is replaced by singing. There are choruses, duets, and long solos.
What is an Opera?
100
Name the two main composers from this era.
Who is Haydn and Mozart?
100
Two of the eight composers of this era.
Who is Beethoven, Schubert, Berlioz, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, and Brahms?
100
Two of the nine composers of this era.
Who is Verdi, Wagner, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Grieg, Sibelius, Sullivan, and Elgar?
100
Two of the six composers of this era.
Who is Stephen Foster, John P. Sousa, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, and Richard Rodgers?
200
Name the two great composers of this era.
Who is Bach and Handle?
200
This is a large composition written in three or four movements for an orchestra; also a group of musicians playing different musical instruments.
What is a Symphony?
200
A composition written for solo instrument and orchestra.
What is Concerto?
200
The meaning of nationalism.
What is Patriotism or love of one's country?
200
Shows in which white entertainers blacken their faces with burnt cork, sang happy and sad songs, danced, told jokes, and sang songs which poked fun at American life.
What is a Minstrel Show?
300
This instruments was very popular during the Baroque period and it was used mainly in churches to perform sacred religious music.
What is the Organ?
300
This is the popular dance that followed simple patterns and steps.
What is Minuet?
300
The instrument that became very popular during the romantic period and is the instrument found in most homes today.
What is the Piano?
300
An instrument which is composed of Bellows, a piano keyboard, and a board of buttons that is worn unstrapped around the shoulders.
What is the Accordion?
300
The writer of the Star Spangled Banner.
Who is Francis Scott Key?
400
Name the composer of this era who married and had twenty-one children.
Who is Bach?
400
The father of the symphony; nicknamed "Papa"
Who is Haydn?
400
The composer who only wrote nine symphonies in his life, but are among the most beautiful ever composed.
Who is Beethoven?
400
A very popular ballet which is performed mostly during the holiday season and composed by Tchaikovsky.
What is the Nutcracker?
400
The composer who was born in Pittsburgh on Independence Day.
Who is Stephen Collins Foster?
500
Name the composer who composed a famous opera called the Messiah.
Who is Handle?
500
The composer who is considered a child prodogy.
Who is Mozart?
500
The first composer ever to use a baton to keep time and to keep players together.
Who is Mendelssohn?
500
A german word meaning a short musical theme which represents a certain character, place, idea, or object first introduced by Wagner.
What is a Leitmotif
500
The composers who are responsible for the famous musical Oklahoma.