Music Theory Terms
The speed of a piece is indicated through the use of Italian-language terms. Some of the most common markings are largo(very slow), adagio(slow), andante("walking speed"), allegro(fast), and presto(very fast), what is this term?
Tempo
What is by Aaron Copland, and Choreographed by Eugene Loring, and is a ballet that depicts episodes in the life of the title Old West Outlaw?
Billy the Kid
What is a set of detail instructions for solving a problem called?
Algorithm
What wind instrument has a high solo at the beginning of The Rite of Spring and represents the Grandfather in Peter and The Wolf?
The Bassoon
What is the capital of Algeria?
Algiers
The distance between two pitches are described with ordinary numbers, what is this called?
Intervals
What ballet was inspired by a trip to the U.S. that Milhaud wrote in 1922?
The Creation of The World
What is a technique used in some algorithms?
Recursion
In what repetitive Maurice Ravel piece does the snare drum play a constant pattern underneath one long crescendo?
Hypnotic Bolero
What is the capital of Benin?
Porto-Novo?
What is built of successive notes that are each a third above the previous called?
Chords
What is now a Christmas time favorite, that originated as an E.T.A. Hoffman story?
The Nutcracker
What is a mathematical concept often used in algorithms, in which a set of vertices is connected by a set of edges called?
Graph
What founder of the Second Viennese School wrote Pierrot Lunaire and created the twelve - tone method of composition?
Arnold Schoenberg
What is the capital of Chad?
N'Djamena
What is the "home" scale of the work?
Key
What was by Leonard Bernstein, and the first ballet choreographed by American dancer Jerome Robbins?
Fancy Free
What is an algorithm that makes the locally optimum or "best" choice at every step called?
Greedy Algorithms
What George Gershwin piece was written for Paul Whiteman's band and opens with a clarinet glissando?
Rhapsody in Blue
What is the capital of Eritrea?
Asmara
What is the overall structure that is often depicted via a series of capital letters called?
Form
What is by Adolphe Adam and about a group of spirits led by Queen Myrtha called?
Giselle
What is a way to write algorithms and other instructions in a way that can be understood and executed by a computer called?
Programming Language
What conductor of the New York Philharmonic wrote the musicals Candide and West Side Story?
Leonard Bernstein
What is the capital of Ivory Coast?
Yamoussoukru