instruments
The instrument in the orchestra that is played standing up
What is the double bass?
This composer was known for being alive during two musical periods
Who is Lugwig Van Beethoven?
The rebirth of music and European history
What is the Renaissance?
The four families of instruments
What are strings, woodworks, brass, and percussions?
This string instrument is also known as the fiddle
What is the violin?
Rock n Roll involved this genre of music
What is Blues?
Who is Johann Sebastian Bach?
The 6 periods of music
What are the medieval, renaissance, baroque, classical, romantic. and 20th/21st century periods?
Italian word for stringer/powerful
What does Fortissimo mean?
This instrument can play the most notes
What can a piano do?
Modern rock, chiptune, and video game music
This composer was known famously for his "Nutcracker Suite"
Who is Tchaikovsky?
The cause of a drastic shift in music during the 20th century
What was a result of advances in technology and new styles?
The 12-tone system for music
What is a twelve-tone composition?
The largest family of instruments
What is the percussion family?
Music genre that consists of reiteration of musical phrases
What is minimalism music?
This composer was known for creating new methods of musical composition involving atonality, namely serialism and the 12-tone row
Who is Arnold Schoenberg?
An invention that revolutionized music compositions, so that large pieces were easily created in mass numbers
What is the printing press?
The most used keys in music
What are the C Major and G Major?
The ancestor of the violin
What is the arabian rebab?
Unusual, experimental, and artistic music.
What is Avant-garde?
This composer wrote an opera to Cartmen
WHo is Georges Bizet?
This 1880 piece was written to commemorate the battle of Borodino
What is 1812 Overture?
Interval consisting of 8 half steps
What is a minor 6th?