Music Theory
Introduction to Russian Folk Music
Russian Music of the Nineteenth Century
Russian Music of the Twentieth Century
Name That Composer
100
Musical term for the highness or lowness of sound
What is pitch?
100
A song that has a long melody with many twists and turns
What is protyazhnaya?
100
Composer of A Life for the Tsar
Who is Glinka?
100
Alexander Scriabin is an example of this musical new school of thought
What is symbolism?
100
Composer of Boris Gudanov
Who is Mussorgsky?
200
Musical term for the twelve different pitches in ascending order
What is the chromatic scale?
200
Name for songs which belonged to various seasonal rituals
What are calendar songs?
200
Glinka's opera which drew its inspiration from a Alexander Pushkin poem
What is Ruslan and Lyudmila?
200
Creator of the Saisons Russes and Ballets Russes
Who is Serge Diaghilev?
200
Composer of Prince Igor
Who is Borodin?
300
Musical term for the distance between any two pitches
What is an interval?
300
The most influential folk song collection, created in 1790
What is the Lvov-Pratsch Collection?
300
Glinka's Kamarinskaya draws its inspiration from this type of Russian folk song: A. calendar B. wedding C. farming D. military E. love
What is B. wedding?
300
Stravinsky's second ballet, following the Firebird
What is Petrushka?
300
Composer of Eugene Onegin
Who is Tchaikovsky?
400
Musical term for the seventh scale degree
What is the leading tone?
400
Upon hearing Yuli Melgunov's folk-song collection, composer Rimsky-Korsakov called it A. rhythmic B. barbaric C. atonal D. flowing E. medieval
What is B. barbaric?
400
Three of the six members of the Mighty Handful
Who are Balakirev, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Cui, Stasov?
400
One of the two composers promoted by the Russian Association of Proletarian Mussicians
Who is Beethoven/Mussorgsky?
400
Composer of Iron Foundry
Who is Alexander Mosolov?
500
Musical term for a triad consisting of two minor thirds
What is a diminished triad?
500
The only women folk song collector
Who is Yevgeniya Linyova?
500
Apologist of the Mighty Handful
Who is Cui?
500
Name of the Shostakovich opera Stalin walked out of
What is Lady Macbeth of Mtensk?
500
Composer of Concerto Grosso No. 1 Second Movement: Toccata
Who is Schnittke?
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