Composers
Classical Pieces
Music History
Musical Terms
SOAK
100
This composer was nicknamed 'the red priest'.
Who is Antonio Vivaldi?
100
This work is a variation on a theme by Henry Purcell and sometimes includes narration that explains different instruments groups in an orchestra.
What is 'The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra' by Benjamin Britten?
100
These were the two most popular keyboard instrument during the Baroque Period.
What are the harpsichord and the clavichord?
100
This is another word for detattched or separated.
What is 'staccato'?
100
You need to pay a 100 EUR deposit to use this building.
What is the MOZ library?
200
This composer had a fear of the number 13.
Who is Arnold Schoenberg?
200
This symphony tells a story of a hero yearning for his beloved, meeting her at a ball and imagining her in the pastoral setting of a meadow before going into an opium-induced nightmare.
What is 'Symphonie Fantastique' by Berlioz?
200
This is a plainchant melody that developed in the Middle Ages and contains at least one added voice to enhance the harmony.
What is organum?
200
This French term means to gradually decrease the tempo of the music.
What is 'cédez'?
200
This is how much money you will get back once you return your copy card.
What is 5 EUR?
300
This composer had a love affair with the writer George Sand.
Who is Frédéric Chopin?
300
This was Verdi's last opera.
What is 'Falstaff'?
300
Who invented the musical staff?
Who is Guido of Arezzo?
300
This a musical term for an alternative passage which may be played instead of the original passage.
What is 'ossia'?
300
True or False: You can buy tickets at the Student Office.
What is false?
400
This composer had a one marriage counciling session with Sigmund Freud in 1910.
Who is Gustav Mahler?
400
This Shostakovich work was banned by the USSR for almost 30 years and made the composer 'an Enemy of the People' for the first of two times.
What is 'Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District'?
400
What term did Alfred Schnittke create to describe the use of multiple styles or techniques in his music?
What is polystylism?
400
This is a vocal technique that involves a gradual crescendo and diminuendo while sustaining a single pitch.
What is 'mezza di voce'?
400
This is the name of the director of students (Melissa and Caro's boss).
Who is Bernie Schneider?
500
This composer was also a writer, philosopher, theologist, scientist and developed their own language.
Who is Hildegard von Bingen?
500
This is the longest symphony in the world.
What is Symphony No.1 'Gothic' by Havergal Brian?
500
In what century was the first pipe organ created?
What is the 8th century?
500
This term means 'freedom of performance'.
What is 'volubilita'?
500
This is the full name of the director of the Mozarteum Summer Academy.
Who is Wolfgang Holzmair?
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