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Halloween Music
100
This famous Russian Composer wrote "Night on Bald Mountain."
Modest Mussorgsky
100
A musical interval is the distance between two ________
Notes or pitches
100
Most composers live to be very old
FALSE - our composer of the month died at age 42. George Gershwin died at age 38. Mozart was 35.
100
Bassists play by either plucking or drawing a _____ across the strings.
Bow.
100
Which famous Halloween piece was written based on a Russian fairy tale about witches and goblins dancing on a mountain top?
Night on Bald Mountain
200
This famous composer served in the military and worked for the government as his full time job.
Modest Mussorgsky
200
This musical instrument is six feet tall
The Bass
200
Night on Bald Mountain was used in the Disney film, "Fantasia."
True
200
A string bow (used by bass players ) is made of wood and _______________.
HORSEHAIR!
200
This famous Halloween song was written by Edvard Grieg
In the Hall of the Mountain King
300
Composer and Bassist Giovanni Bottesini (1821-1889) was born in what country?
Italy
300
The ________ ___ _________ is a diagram used in music theory that helps students memorize and understand the 24 major and minor keys and how they relate to each other.
Circle of Fifths
300
There is a musical instrument called the Contra Bass
TRUE - it is another name for the Bass we learned about this month in our Piano Explorer
300
Baba Yaga is the name of a famous Witch - true or false?
TRUE - in Russia, Baba Yaga is the name for the "boogey-man" or any scary character.
300
This famous Halloween piece was written by whom?
J.S. Bach
400
Which famous composer wrote a Concerto for Double Bass in 1763 - although the music was lost in a fire?
Franz Joseph Haydn
400
The Double Bass usually has how many strings?
Four - E, A, D, & G . . . but this tuning shows what a 5th string could be tuned to.
400
There are usually four types of string instruments in the orchestra
TRUE - violin, viola, cello, and bass. However, an orchestra may add the Harp, banjo, sitar, or guitar if needed for a piece.
400
A short passage or "chapter" in a piece of music is called a ______________.
Movement.
400
This famous Halloween Piece was written by Camille Saint-Saens.
Danse Macabre
500
Mussorgsky and his friends were known as "The _____"
They were known as "The Five," or "The Mighty Handful. Modest Mussorgsky, Alexander Borodin, Cesar Cui, Mily Balakirev and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
500
When a string player plays staccato by plucking the strings, what is it called?
Pizzicato! 
500
Pictures at an Exhibition is always a piece played by the orchestra
FALSE - Pictures at an Exhibition was originally written for PIANO only. Only after Mussorgsky died, did French Composer Maurice Ravel re-write it for the orchestra- which is how it is played and performed nowadays.
500
What (or who) is Boris Gudonov?
Boris Gudonov is an opera by Modest Mussorgsky
500
Catacombs from Pictures at an Exhibition was written by whom?
Modest Mussorgsky