Name That Piece
Wrote 4'33" where the performer does not actually play or sing anything.
Who is John Cage?
A "wunderkind" whose father had him touring Europe as a concert pianist before he was even 10 years old. Died at the young age of 32, but not before writing over 50 symphonies, 27 piano concertos and several operas including "The Magic Flute."
Who is W.A. Mozart?
The city most closely associated with the classical period.
What is Vienna?
The italian musical term meaning "to get louder."
A Romantic Russian composer, most closely associated with his ballets.
A prodigious organist whose fugues and canons often featured melodies that in harmony with themselves backwards or upside-down.
Who is J.S. Bach?
Written music began in which context, or thanks to which institution?
The section of the orchestra featuring the trumpets, trombones, tuba and French horns.
Who is Richard Wagner?
The father of the Symphony and the father of the Orchestra.
Franz Joseph Haydn?
Charles Ives, Florence Price and Terry Riley were all composers from this country.
What is the United States?
Music written for a small ensemble.
What is chamber music?
A renowned pianist of Russian origin whose piano concertos earned him much fame and attention as he toured the U.S. in the early 20th century.
Who is Sergei Rachmaninov?
His operas (including Rinaldo and Julias Caesar) were unsuccessful in London, so he switched to writing Oratorio.
Who is Frideric Handel?
The premiere of Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring" caused a riot in this major city.
What is Paris, France?
What is polyphony?
A living American composer known for his use of percussion instruments and musical "phasing" where a musical phrase slowly gets out of sync and back in sync with itself.
Who is Steve Reich?
A polymath and benedictine Abbess whose elaborate chants are considered the musical pinnacle of the High Middle Ages.
Who is Hildegard of Bingen?
Indonesia/Java.
A form that became popular in the Classical era which features multiple themes, an exposition, development, and recapitulation.
What is Sonata?