Musical Instruments
Classical Composers
Music Generes
Classical Music
Contemporary Music
100
It is a percussion instrument consisting of a set of wooden bars struck with mallets to produce musical tones. Resonators attached to the bars amplify their sound.
What is a Marimba
100
An Italian composer. His many operas, such as La Traviata (1853), Aida (1871), etc.
Who was Giuseppe Verdi
100
A melancholic music style, typically in a twelve-bar sequence. It developed in the rural southern US toward the end of the 19th century, finding a wider audience in the 1940s
What is The Blues
100
A piece of organ music written by Johann Sebastian Bach according to its oldest extant sources. First published in 1833 through the efforts of Felix Mendelssohn it became the most famous work in the organ repertoire, owing part of its popularity to arrangements such as the one appearing in Walt Disney's Fantasia.
What is Toccata And Fugue In D Minor
100
It can be understood as belonging to the period that started in the mid-1970s to early 1990s, which includes modernist, postmodern, neoromantic, and pluralist music.
What is Contemporary Music
200
A shallow one-sided Irish drum typically played with a short two-headed drumstick.
What is Bodhrán
200
An Austrian composer and child prodigy. He came to epitomize classical music in its purity of form and melody.
Who was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
200
Popular music that is tuneful and undemanding.
What is Easy Listening
200
The common English title of An der schönen blauen Donau, Op. 314 (German for "By the Beautiful Blue Danube"), a waltz by the Austrian composer Johann Strauss II, composed in 1866.
What is Blue Danube
200
A song credited to Gene Raskin, who put English lyrics to the Russian romance song "Dorogoi dlinnoyu" ("Дорогой длинною", lit. "By the long road"), composed by Boris Fomin (1900–1948) with words by the poet Konstantin Podrevskii. It deals with reminiscence upon youth and romantic idealism.
What is Those Were the Days
300
A small, rectangular keyboard instrument producing a soft sound by means of metal blades attached to the ends of key levers that gently press the strings, popular from the early 15th to early 19th centuries.
What is Clavichord
300
A Russian composer. His music is characterized by melodiousness and depth of expression and is often melancholy. Notable works include the ballets Swan Lake (1877), etc.
Who was Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
300
A style of mainly instrumental music characterized by light melodic harmonies, improvisation, and sounds reproduced from the natural world, intended to promote serenity.
What is New Age
300
Written by Beethoven,it is one of the most popular piano pieces ever written. The sonata got its name when poet Ludwig Rellstab described the music as being 'like moonlight shining on a lake' in 1832.
What is Moonlight Sonata
300
It is a song written by Don Henley, Glenn Frey, and J.D. Souther. It was originally recorded by the Eagles (with Henley singing lead vocals), and included on their 1974 album On the Border. The band's first Billboard Hot 100 number 1 single in March 1975, the song also topped the easy listening (adult contemporary) chart for one week a month earlier.
What is Best of My Love
400
A small concave pieces of wood, ivory, or plastic, joined in pairs by a cord and clicked together by the fingers as a rhythmic accompaniment to Spanish dancing.
What is Castanets
400
A German composer and organist, resident in Britain from 1712. He is remembered for his oratorio Messiah (1742), his Water Music suite ( c.1717),etc.
Who was George Frideric Handel
400
A drama set to music and made up of vocal pieces with orchestral accompaniment and orchestral overtures and interludes
What is Opera
400
It is the popular term for the beginning of act 3 of Die Walküre, the second of the four operas by Richard Wagner that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen.
What is Die Walküre: Ride Of The Valkyries
400
is a song written by Peter Cetera and David Foster for the group Chicago and recorded for their album Chicago 17 (1984). The third single released from that album, it reached #3 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in January 1985, and also climbed to the top position on the adult contemporary chart at the same time.
What is You're the Inspiration
500
A pair of hardwood sticks used to make a hollow sound when struck together.
What is Claves
500
A Russian composer, resident of the US from 1939. His ballets The Firebird (1910) and The Rite of Spring (1913), etc.
Who was Igor Stravinsky
500
Starting in the mid-1950s, this style of music incorporated electric blues, as well as gospel and soul music.
What is R&B
500
Written by Ludwig van Beethoven, it is a composition originally written for orchestra, but was lost and only an arrangement for piano could be found. It has become very popular.
What is Minuet In G
500
It is a 1994 song recorded by Elton John. It was the first single from his album Made in England and was released on 20 February 1995. It reached #1 in Canada. In the US, it was Elton John's fifteenth number one on the Adult Contemporary chart and also went to number thirteen on the Billboard Hot 100.
What is Believe
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