Early Music
If it's Baroque, fix it!
Nothin' but Classical
Hopeless Romantic
20th Century
100
The forerunner to the modern trombone.
What is the sackbut?
100
The English translation of "fortepiano," the original name of the piano.
What is "loud soft"?
100
A composer who wrote 50 symphonies and countless other works during his 35 year life.
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
100
Considered the most prestigious of instrumental genres.
What is the symphony?
100
The most famous ragtime composer.
Who is Scott Joplin?
200
Music with two choirs that are separated by space?
What is antiphonal music?
200
The composer who wrote "The Messiah".
Who is George Frideric Handel?
200
Comic opera using everyday characters.
What is Opera Buffa?
200
A symphony that told the story of the composer falling in love with an actress, becoming obsessed, and ending in a dream of a witches' sabbath?
What is "Symphonie Fantastique?"
200
A piece by Henry Cowell in which the player scrapes the strings of a piano.
What is "The Banshee"?
300
Things that allows brass instruments to greatly increase the number of notes they can play, which did not exist during Medieval times.
What are valves?
300
Misshapen pearl
What is the meaning of the word "Baroque"?
300
An Austrian composer who wrote the "Farewell Symphony" to protest how long the orchestra had been away from their families.
Who is Franz Joseph Haydn?
300
The March King.
What is John Phillip Sousa's nickname?
300
The composer of 4'33" and "As Slow As Possible".
Who is John Cage?
400
A famous female composer born in 1098?
Who is Hildegard von Bingen?
400
A German composer who wasn't well-known during his life, but has come to be known as the most important Baroque composer.
Who is Johann Sebastian Bach?
400
A composer who developed "rules" concerning opera music.
Who is Christoph Willibald Gluck?
400
A composer who wrote 9 symphonies, though he was totally deaf for part of his life.
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
400
A tortured soul who wrote music in the expressionist and serialist styles.
Who is Arnold Schoenberg?
500
The oldest surviving complete competition.
What is the Epitaph of Seiklos?
500
A composer who stabbed himself in the foot with his conducting staff and died.
Who is Jean-Baptiste Lully?
500
The Prince who proclaimed that masses were becoming too elaborate.
Who is Joseph II?
500
Synthesized + art + work
What three words make up "gesamtkunstwerk"?
500
The composer who wrote "Rite of Spring", a ballet about a ritual where a young girl is selected to dance herself to death as a sacrifice.
Who is Igor Stravinsky?
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