FAMOUS COMPOSERS
This composer wrote
"Moonlight Sonata"
Who is Beethoven?
This piece begins with E-D#-E-D#-E-B-D-C-A
What is Für Elise?
What are 5 notes?
This music period comes first among the Classical, Romantic, Baroque, and Impressionistic periods.
What is the Baroque period?
This composer had
20 children! 😱
Who is J.S. Bach?
This Mussorgsky piano suite is in ten movements and is a musical depiction of a tour of individual works by architect and painter Viktor Hartmann.
What is "Pictures at an Exhibition"?
A major scale with two sharps in the key signature.
What is D Major?
True or False: The piano was invented before the harpsichord
What is False?
What is the Classical Period?
This composer wrote his first symphony when he was
8 years old.
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
This Debussy piece means "Moonlight"
What is "Clair de Lune"?
This is the Italian phrase for back to the beginning or "head" of the music
What is Da Capo?
This famous composer and his sister were the first know performers to give a four hand "duet" piano concert.
What is Wolfgang and Nannerl Mozart?
This composer became deaf later in life but continued composing some of the greatest works in all of music
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
This Hungarian compoer was famous for dazzling piano virtuosity and wrote the Hungarian Rhapsodies
Who is Franz Liszt?
Scott Joplin became famous for writing this style of music
What is Ragtime?
This Perfect Interval spans exactly 5-half steps
What is a Perfect 4th?
This piano is technically classified as this family of instruments
What is the percussion family?
This Jazz pianist and composer wrote "Take Five"
Who is Dave Brubeck?
This composer studied at New York’s Juilliard School of Music but dropped out after a year to immerse himself in the underground jazz clubs
Who is Miles Davis?
Chopin wrote many pieces in this genre of music including ones nicknamed "Revolutionary", "Winter Wind" and "Oceans"
What is an Étude?
B-E-A-D-G-C-F
What is the order of FLATS in the circle of keys?
The first (and longer) Italian name for the Piano.
What is PianoForte?
In 1975 John Williams' iconic two-note motive was part of the film score in this blockbuster movie
What is Jaws?