The Basics
Folk Town Hoe Down
19th Century Tunes
The "Silver Age"
Everything Stravinsky
100
This "elegant" staff is created when the bass and treble clef are put together.
What is The Grand Staff
100
This collection of folk songs was the earliest recorded and "lvoved" by all.
What is The Lvov-Pratsch Collection
100
This cardinal direction was the inspiration for Russian music and culture
What is West
100
This avant garde funding held a great impact on the course of the arts in Russia during the Silver Age
What is private sponsorship
100
Igor Stravinsky was born in this year
What is 1882
200
Violins, harps and guitars fit into this category of instruments.
What are Chordophones
200
Mikhail Glinka wrote this opera that included folk music
What is A Life for the Tsar
200
This is how Glinka labels his steadily beating song, "The Glory Chorus"
What is "hymn-march"
200
This was Mitrofan Belyayev's greatest passion
What is chamber music
200
The Firebird's plot was an amalgam of various Russian fairytales, as if it was a balletic counterpart to...?
What is a Rimsky-Korsakov opera
300
There are 10 half steps in this tiny interval.
What is Minor Seventh
300
This is the Russian word for "prolonged"
What is protyazhnaya
300
He was affectionately called, "The Father of Russian Music".
Who is Mikhail Glinka
300
This is the railway tycoon who used his capital wealth to sustain work in the arts of music and painting
Who is Savva Mamontov
300
This is the name of the evil sorcerer in The Firebird
What is Kashchei
400
This is the lowest "voice" in a series of chords.
What is Bass Line
400
Try not to "Oggle" at this Russian composer who was the frist to write about protyazhanya in a book.
Who is Nikolai Gogol
400
This man, much smarter than a porter, wrote the "Philosophical Letter" of 1829 containing this quote, "In this land, Peter the Great found only a blank sheet of paper, and he wrote on it: "Europe and the West"; since then we have belonged to Europe and the West."
Who is Pyotr Chaadayev
400
When the arts flourished in Russia during the Silver age, what art form in particular is mentioned first?
What is poetry
400
Stravinsky's second opera was set in this watery city
What is St. Petersburg
500
Monophony, heterophony, homophony, and polyphony are all types of. . .
What is Texture in Western Music
500
Melgunov and Palchikov's work was overshaddowed by the invention of what device?
What is the audio recorder
500
During this time period the piece of art Napoleon's Invasion of Moscow was painted. The "mystery" painter was. . .
Artist is Unknown
500
The trend of symbolism was introduced by this French poet
Who is Stephane Mallarme
500
In Stravinsky's Petrushka, audiences were very familiar with popular songs Stravinsky used, such as this "roadside" tune
What is Vdol' po Piterskoy (Along the Piterskaya Road)
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