CLASSICAL MUSIC GLOSSARY
Brahms was just one composer of this type of piece with a name from the French for "small" & also a dance
a minuet
Napoleon sent this woman the DM: "How happy I would be if I could assist you at your undressing"
Josepehine
He tells Brabantio about seeing "men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders" & Desdemona overhears
Othello
Coloring your world in a not-so-great way, it follows scarlet & yellow
fever
Dating back to the early 2000s, it's what FOMO stands for
fear of missing out
Before his death at 31, Schubert composed 600 songs called these in German
Lieder
She met her future hubby in Buenos Aires at an earthquake relief fundraiser in 1944
Eva Perón
With a certain amount of jester privilege, this character (never given a government name) openly mocks King Lear
the Fool
Bee aware this skin reaction is also called urticaria
hives
It can mean to become independent of someone or something, or what new fathers often do in the hospital delivery room
cut the cord
Manuel de Falla's "Nights in the Gardens of Spain" is a set of this type of composition, named for the time of day mentioned
a nocturne
This Founding Father could no longer say "It wasn't me" after he detailed his affair with Maria Reynolds in a 98-page pamphlet
Hamilton
When we first meet this character, she reads a letter from her husband about his supernatural experience with 3 weirdos
Lady Macbeth
Claiming 11,000 lives before containment, the worst-ever outbreak of this virus plagued West Africa from 2014 to 2016
Ebola
It follows "jack of all trades" to describe someone who can do many things but not particularly well
master of none
Rossini would have called a comic opera this in Italian; his first, "The Bill of Marriage", came out in 1810
an opera buffa
This RKO investor & political patriarch had a torrid romance with movie star Gloria Swanson
Joseph Kennedy
Tired of being surrounded by moochers, he feeds his so-called friends rocks & then exiles himself from Athens
Timon
Guess what, TV's "House"? It is in fact this auto-immune disorder; the discoid type affects only the skin, not organs
lupus
A serious incident on April 14, 1970 led to this 5-word phrase being used humorously for less serious situations
Houston, we have a problem
Chopin was famed for his "heroic" one of these, named for the country of his birth
the polonaise
On April 5, 1953 the Atlanta Daily World announced the engagement of this pair who met in Boston
Coretta Scott & Martin Luther King
In ancient Rome Caius Marcius is given this title name after conquering a Volscian city
Coriolanus
The HIB vaccine is highly effective vs. bacterial this acute respiratory illness, which tends to strike kids 7 or younger
croup
This phrase meaning a commotion over something little predates the Shakespeare title
much ado about nothing