Music Instruments
What is the oldest known musical instrument?
What is flute?
Which musical period, spanning roughly 1600–1750, saw the invention of opera?
What is The Baroque period?
What is this song?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftCalx6_pYA&t=3s
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Beat it
What Opera has Historical themes (kings and queens) and mythological themes (gods and goddesses)?
What is Opera Seria?
This composer wrote Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star variations. A renowned child prodigy who began composing at age five.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
How many pedals does a grand piano have?
What is Three?
Who is the father of Rock and Roll?
What is Chuck Berry?
How many acts are in Opera Buffa?
What is Two to three acts?
This composer became deaf later in life but still wrote famous symphonies like Symphony No. 5.
Ludwig van Beethoven
This "king of instruments" uses pressurized air through pipes and was a staple of Baroque music.
What is Pipe Organ?
What are the major periods of musical history?
What is Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Modern/20th Century?
When was Opera Buffa usually performed before it evolved?
What is originally an intermezzo (a short, one-act skit performed during intermissions of serious operas)?
This Baroque composer wrote The Four Seasons.
Antonio Vivaldi
Name all Instrument Families
What is String, woodwind, brass, percussion, and electronic?
Where is the birthplace of jazz?
In New Orleans... Jazz was formed by blending ragtime, blues, spirituals, and brass band marches
Who is the castrato?
What is the important cast member of an opera seria?
This composer is known for writing over 1,000 works and pieces like The Brandenburg Concertos.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Explain what a theremin is?
It produces eerie, wavering, or sweeping sounds by generating electromagnetic fields around two antennas, which the musician alters by moving their hands near them
https://youtu.be/-QgTF8p-284?t=40
What are some of the earliest instruments?
Bone flutes, rattles, and primitive stringed devices.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYj2hex99gY&t=27s
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Unchained Melody
Who is the male vocal lead of an opera buffa?
What is Basso Buffo?
This Romantic composer wrote the ballet Swan Lake.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky