Music Theory
A diagram representing the relationship between the 12 tones of the chromatic scale
What is the Circle of Fifths?
The method our early ancestors used to create music
What is clapping?
An influential composer of 20th-century music and the inventor of the 12-tone system
Who is Schoenberg?
The most popular played instrument
What is the piano?
Arguably one of the most iconic video gaming pieces of all time, it derives its theme from a Russian folk song
What is tetris?
The literal definition of the name of this era of music is "misshapen pearl"
What does 'Baroque' mean?/What is Baroque?
The first music playing device to play music
What is a phonograph?
The predominant musical figure in the transition period between the Classical and Romantic eras
Who was Beethoven?
The highest sounding instrument in the woodwind family
What is piccolo?
The first video game to feature music
What is Pong?
The smallest interval in a chromatic scale, or the distance between any two notes on the piano keyboard
What is a semitone?
A Greek philosopher that was said to have been the inventor of music
Who is Pythagoras?
A violinist that was rumored to have sold his soul to the devil in order to achieve his astounding musical talent, nicknamed the "Devil's Violinist"
Who was Paganini?
An instrument that has 47 strings
What is harp?
Instead of playing actual instrumental sounds because processors struggled to play it, this musical form was created
What is 8 Bit?
The shifting of an entire piece or phrase of music into a different pitch/key
What is transpose?
The time period when the first recovered piece of recorded music was found
What is 800 BCE?
A Baroque composer that made a great deal of money during his lifetime, but died very poor
Who was Vivaldi?
A traditional Chinese instrument that has two strings
What is erhu?
Audi famam illius, Solus in hostes ruit, Et patriam servavit is the starting phrase of what video game?
What is Super Smash Bros Brawl?
A type of scale built by starting another scale from a note other than its root
What is a mode?
Considered to be the world's earliest melody
What is the "Hurrian Hymn No. 6"?
A Classical composer that was born in the same year as George Washington (1732), and died the year Abraham Lincoln was born (1809)
Who was Haydn?
The oldest-known instrument in the world
What is flute?
A line found in Francis Poulenc's "Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra" can be found within this game
What is The Legend of Zelda?