Pin the Piece
An adaptation of a piece written by Hungarian composer Béla Kéler.
What is Hungarian Dance No. 5 by Brahms?
Listen for two instruments
What are the flute and harp? (Mozart concerto)
Music programs are offered at MV
What are orchestras, bands, choir, marching band, jazz band, guards, and percussion ensembles?
Fast, lively, and bright
What is Allegro?
Which composer wrote the famous ballet The Nutcracker?
Who is Tchaikovsky?
The piece takes its title and mood from an 1869 poem by French symbolist poet Paul Verlaine
What is Claire de Lune?
Listen for two instruments
What are the violin and viola? (Passacaglia)
Our Assistant Music Director
Who is Tim Yang?
At a walking pace
What is Andante?
Frédéric Chopin composed almost exclusively for which instrument
What is the piano?
The piece was commissioned by the band of the Royal Military School of Music at Kneller Hall.
What is English Folk Song Suite?
Listen for three instruments
What are the bassoon, clarinet, and oboe? (Villa-lobos trio)
Date of our Holiday concert
When is December 10-11?
In a singing style
Ludwig van Beethoven wrote this many total symphonies
What is nine?
The composer described the scene as an imperial court around 1855, emerging out of a swirling, misty atmosphere into the grand, glittering rhythm of a massive ballroom.
What is La Valse?
Listen for five instruments
What are the glass harmonica, oboe, flute, cello, and viola? (Mozart Adagio and Rondo)
The categories in audition rubrics at MVHS
What are Pitch Accuracy, Rhythmic Accuracy, Tone Quality, Articulation, Dynamics, Expression, Sight Reading
With fire, passion, or intensity
What is con fuoco?
John Cage’s famous 1952 composition 4′33″ consists of what?
What is four minutes and thirty three seconds of silence?
It is the final and most demanding work in one of the composer's famous trilogies
What is Feste Romane (Roman Festivals)?
Listen for seven instruments
What are the clarinet, horn, bassoon, violin, viola, cello, and double bass? (Beethoven septet)
The schools Mr. Gilchrist did student teaching at
Homestead and Lynbrook
As slow and broad as possible
What is Larghissimo?
Which member of "The Mighty Handful" (The Five) Russian composers lived a double life as a prominent professor of organic chemistry
Who is Borodin?