Biola Facts
The year Biola was founded
What is 1908?
Italian term for very soft
What is pianissimo?
Dates of our Poland/Germany Tour
What is March 12-20, 2027?
Musical period before the Baroque period
What is the Renaissance?
The largest ocean on Earth
What is the Pacific Ocean?
What chapels are Offered at Biola?
What are Monday/wednesday chapel, talbot tuesdays, afterdark, fives, the table, first year fridays, and singspiration.
This marking tells a musician to gradually slow down
What is ritardando?
Name two majors that are in chorale that are non-music affiliated?
Biochemistry, Business, Physics, Communications
Renaissance vocal composition that sets a secular poem to music, often about love
What is a madrigal?
Biola's largest and most populated residence hall
What is Horton Hall?
This vocal technique refers to smoothly connecting notes without an audible break between them.
What is legato?
Composer of Trahe Me & Da Pacem (Dr. Stewart said it in class on Wednesday...)
Who is Zuzanna Koziej?
This composer is known as the "Father of Symphony"
Who is Haydn?
In binary code, the only digit beside 0
What is 1?
This Biola organization is described by the university as the largest organization of its kind in the United States
What is SMU (Student Missionary Union)?
This solfege syllable is used for the lowered second scale degree.
What is ra?
What is the ACDA Western Region Conference?
This 20th century composer wrote The Rite of Spring.
Who is Igor Stravinsky?
In Acts, this couple fell dead after lying about the money they had given to the apostles
Who are Ananias and Sapphira?
The Biola Egg weighs approximately this much
"a cappella" literal meaning
*Not singing without instrumental accompaniment...
What is "in the chapel style" or "in the manner of chapel"?
Where Dr. Stewart earned her Doctorate degree
What is USC Thornton of Music?
This Baroque compositional technique involves a subject being introduced by one voice and subsequently imitated by other voices.
What is a fugue?
This planet has the shortest day of any planet in our solar system; one rotation in about 10 hours
What is Jupiter?