The most famous and influential composer in music history. His life and music provided the template for musical Romanticism.
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
100
This pop singer/songwriter was one of the most popular artist on the charts of 2011.
Who is Katy Perry?
100
One of the most popular American Rock and roll, pop, rockabilly, country, blues, gospel, R&B singers of the 20th century.
What is Elvis Presley?
100
This instrument has 88 keys.
What is piano?
200
low female voice
What is alto?
200
Bach was a formidable intellectual and technical composer, but his music is also uplifting and spiritual, melodic, and rhythmically irresistible. Few names in music are as revered as Bach’s.
Who is Johann Sebastian Bach?
200
His early career was dominated by his job as conductor of the Vienna Opera. He wrote much of his music while on summer holiday.
What is Gustav Mahler?
200
was an American singer and film actor.
What is Frank Sinatra?
200
This woodwind instrument is silver and has 25 keys and 8 holes.
What is a flute?
300
A musical tempo that is walking speed.
What is andante?
300
The most significant and prolific composer in jazz history and one of the most famous American composers in any genre. His music helped define what jazz is and what it could be. His longer compositions are now sometimes performed by classical orchestras.
Who is Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington?
300
This artist wrote the chart topper that includes these lyrics: "...And when you smile, the whole world stops to stare for awhile.."
What is Bruno Mars?
300
This ballet of Igor Stravinsky caused a riot at it's debut in Paris due to it's pagan themes and very progressive music.
What is "The Rite of Spring"?
300
the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family.
What is trumpet?
400
A steady background ‘pulse’ in music.
What is a beat?
400
The Russian 20th-century composer especially famous for his symphonies.
Who is Dmitri Shostakovich?
400
Adele sang this song and put it in her album, "21". "I wish nothin' but the best for you..." are part of the lyrics.
What is "Someone like you"?
400
This composer was a student of Schoenberg and switched from a late Romantic to a twelve-tone serialism style after he studied with him.
What is Anton Webern?
400
A plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick.
What is a guitar?
500
a cross-bar connecting two or more stems of notes that would normally employ a flag.
What is a beam?
500
The “King of Ragtime,” during its heyday in the 1890s-1910s, Joplin published more than 40 rags, and also composed two operas.
Who is Scott Joplin?
500
This song was written by Green Day (Also called "Good Riddance")
What is "The Time Of Your Life"?
500
This famous American composer got his start in Tin Pan Alley in New York City, and is famous for his compositions "Rhapsody in Blue," "American in Paris," and his opera/musical "Porgy and Bess.
What is George Gershwin?
500
A multi-stringed instrument which has the plane of its strings positioned perpendicularly to the soundboard.