Composers
Music Theory
Musical Terms
Instruments
Music of Many Cultures
100

This child prodigy wrote his first symphony at 9 years old, and went on to become one of the most famous Classical composers

Who is Mozart?

100

A chord with 3 notes each spaced a third apart

What is a triad?

100

Another word for decrescendo

What is diminuendo?

100

The most famous stringed instrument maker, he crafted instruments in Cremona, Italy in the early 1700s that are still used today

Who was Stradivarius?

100

Songs associated with African slaves in America, religiously based and descriptive of their sorrows in captivity

What are Spirituals?

200

This famous Baroque composer was a church organist and signed his compositions "Solo Dei Gloria," Glory to God alone

Who was J.S. Bach?
200

The relative minor of C Major

What is A minor?

200

Sforzando

What is an accent? (or, a strong accent)

200

A small plastic instrument played by humming into it

What is a kazoo?

200

The type of scale used in traditional Chinese music

What is pentatonic?

300

This Austrian composer wrote more than 500 waltzes and was known as the "Waltz King"

Who was Strauss? (Johann Strauss Jr.)

300

The number of sixteenth notes in a dotted eighth note

What is 3?

300

The opposite of accelerando

What is ritardando? (or rallentando)

300

The largest instrument in the woodwind family

What is a contrabassoon?

300

A sitar is an instrument from India, and is a member of this instrument family

What is a the string family?

400

This American composer wrote over a hundred marches for military band, and helped develop a brass instrument named after him

Who was Sousa? (John Philip Sousa)

400
A minor scale created by raising the 7th note of the scale a half step

What is melodic minor?

400

A musical ornament played by rapidly alternating notes a step apart

What is a trill?

400

The full name of the inventor of the saxophone

Who was Adolphe Sax?

400

This percussion instrument, used today, originated in Southern Africa and was named from a word in the Bantu language

What is a marimba?

500

This late-Romantic composer completed 9 enormously long symphonies, known by brass players for their difficult solos

Who was Mahler? (Gustav Mahler)

500

The scale degree called "subdominant"

What is 4? (IV)

500

The opposite of poco

What is molto?

500

One of the most famous competitions for this instrument is the Van Cliburn Competition

What is the piano?

500

The earliest known written music comes from this culture; only 15 songs survive including the "Delphic Hymn to Apollo" from 130 BC

What is Greek?

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