Miscellaneous
Musical Instruments
Composers
Music History
Music Theory
100

This UNM saxophone teacher was born in Alabama

Dr. Kelly

100

This is the string instrument that comprises the largest portion of the orchestra

Violin

100

This German composer wrote Fur Elise

Beethoven

100

Opera originated in this musical era

Renaissance
100

This Italian term/symbol tells a performer to gradually get louder

Crescendo

200

What is the proper BPM range to do CPR?

100-120

200

These percussion instruments are also known as kettle drums

Timpani

200

This Baroque composer is famous for writing The Four Seasons

Vivaldi

200

This era came after the Baroque period

Classical period

200

This is the relative minor key of A major

F sharp minor

300

A French horn player is playing their A sharp. What concert pitch is this?

D sharp
300

This is the oldest known musical instrument

The flute

300

This teenage prodigy composed his first symphony at age 8 and later wrote The Magic Flute

Mozart

300

This is the year associated with the start of the Baroque era

1600

300

This interval is known as “the devil’s chord”

tritone (diminished fifth or augmented fourth also ok)
400

This is considered the most acoustically perfect venue in the US

Carnegie Hall

400

What was the original name of the trombone?

Sackbut

400

This Russian composer composed the music for the Nutcracker

Tchaikovsky

400

This style of music grew out of African American communities in the early 1900s

Jazz

400

This scale degree in a natural minor scale is raised to make a harmonic minor scale

The seventh

500

How many instruments did Prince know how to play?

27

500

The theremin belongs to which family of musical instruments?

Electronic instruments

500

This 20th century American composer wrote Appalachian Spring and Fanfare for the Common Man

Aaron Copland

500

What are the years that span the classical period?

1750-1820

500

This mode consists of all of the notes of a minor scale but with a lowered 2nd scale degree 

Phrygian 

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