NC State Music Department
Music Theory
Guess the Song by Lyric
This Semester's Repertoire
Miscellaneous
100

This is the first name of Price, the founder of Price Music Center.

What is Percy?

100

This is the word for a recurring theme, melody, or fragment associated with a particular character or idea.

What is a leitmotif/motif?

100

The kingdom of this world is become The kingdom of our lord and of his christ, and of his christ

What is the Hallelujah Chorus?

100

This is the name of the composer of Come to the Woods.

Who is Jake Runestad?

100

This is the name of the other non-NCSU choir that Dr. Leaf directs!

What is the Concert Singers of Cary?

200

This is the number of a cappella groups we have on campus!

What is 5? (Wolfgang, Acappology, Grains of Time, Ladies in Red, Chordination)

200

Please draw a Double Sharp symbol!

x or x with dots

200

There is no such beauty as where you belong.

What is The Road Home?

200

This is the name of the group that originally sang the arrangement of Cells, Planets that we are singing.

Who are Chanticleer?

200

This is the year that NC State changed the lyrics to the Alma Mater (bonus points if you can tell me the lyric change!

What is 2022? and "winds of dixie" to "southern winds"

300
This is the year the Department of Music at NC State was founded.

What is 1924?

300

These are the two key signatures that have 5 flats.

What are Db major, Bb minor

300

Most of freedom and of pleasure, nothing ever lasts forever.

What is Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Tears for Fears?

300

This is the translation of Brahms' "An Die Heimat"

What is "To My Homeland?"

300

This famous YouTuber duo majored in Engineering at NC State.

Who are Rhett and Link?

400

This university is where Dr. Leaf got his Doctorate of Music (DMA).

What is the University of Texas at Austin?

400

This chord is spelled D#-F#-A-C#

What is D# Half diminished or D#m7(b5)?

400

Mirrors on the ceiling, the pink champagne on ice
And she said, "We are all just prisoners here of our own device"

What is Hotel California?

400

This is the name of the big work that "How Can I Keep on Feelin in this Mean Mean World" and "Pulses" come from?

What is Titrations?

400

This artist won Best New Artist at the 2024 VMAs.

Who is Chappell Roan?

500

Please write out the greek letters that spell out Mu Beta Psi

M B weird Y

500

This scale starts on G and has two sharps.

What is G lydian?

500

Who said that every wish would be heard and answered when wished on the morning star?

What is The Rainbow Connection?

500

This is the number of times the time signature changes in Come to the Woods (closest answer wins)

What is 32?
500

This is the height of the belltower in feet!

What is 115 feet?