African Countries and Capitals
Music Theory Terms
Programming Terms
Ballets
Potpourri
100

Country

Egypt

Capital

Cairo

100

 Traditionally speed of a piece  is indicated through the use of Italian-language terms.

Most common are Largo(very slow), adagio(slow), and Allegro(fast)

tempo

100

Is a mathematical concept often used in algorithms, in which a set of vertices is connected by a set of edges. In visual representations,

A graph

100

By Aaron Copland. Choreographed by Eugene Loring, this ballet depicts episodes in the life of the title Old West outlaw.

Billy the Kid

100

What wind instrument has a high solo at the beginning of the rite spring and represents the grandfather in peter and the wolf

Bassoon

200

Benin 

Porto-Novo

200

The most common type are built of successive notes that are each a third above the previous.


Chords

200

A technique used in some algorithms. Sometimes an _____ calls itself to solve a smaller case of the problem, until it reaches a simple base case that is already solved

Recursion

200

by Leonard Bernstein. Fancy Free, the first ballet choreographed by American dancer Jerome Robbins, was inspired by Paul Cadmus’s painting The Fleet’s In!

Fancy Free

200

what founder of the second Viennese school wrote Pierrot lunaire

Schoenberg

300

Chad 

N'djamena

300

A piece of music's key is the home scale of work.

A collections of sharps or flats that appear at the beginning of the work and on each subsequent line of music.

Key

300

Used with many programming languages to convert human-readable code into instructions that a machine can execute.

A compiler

300

by Peter Tchaikovsky. Now a Christmastime favorite 

was choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov

The Nutcracker

300

what seven-movement suite by Gustav Holst opens with the piece mars the bringer of war

The Planets

400

Mali

Bamako

400

Makings indicate the volume at witch music is to be played.

 Basic are forte and piano

Dynamic

400

 A paradigm based on the execution of various functions to calculate values

Functional programming

400

by Aaron Copland. Copland had several working names for Appalachian Spring while composing it, including House of Victory and Ballet for Martha.

Appalachian Spring 

400

what soviet composers fifteen symphonies include ones nicknamed leningrad and babi yar

Dmitri Shostakovich

500

Republic of the Congo

Brazzaville

500

Was developed by Arnold Schoenberg in the early 1920s, and is one method of writing atonal music—music that has no key or tonic pitch

Twelve-tone technique:

500

 Algorithms that make the locally optimum or “best” choice at every step.

Such algorithms may or may not produce an overall best solution.

Greedy algorithms

500

 by Maurice Ravel. Commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev and choreographed by Michel Fokine,

is based on the only surviving work by the Greek author Longus

Daphnis and Chloe

500

What Soviet composer included a “Dance of the Knights” in his ballet Romeo and Juliet?

Prokofiev

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