Composers
The composer that is especially known for their symphonies
What is Gustav Mahler
The time period Mozart composed
What is the classical era
Verdi's famous opera "Rigoletto" is in the _____ language
What is Italian
The famous curse for composers that compose(d) symphonies
What is "the curse of the ninth"
The four types of chords
What is major, minor, diminished, and augmented
The composer who composed the famous piece "Flight of the Bumble Bee"
What is Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
The time period before the Baroque Era
What is the renaissance
The number of symphonies Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed
What is 41 symphonies
Mozart was paid to write the famous piece, "Requiem" (true or false)
What is true (but nobody knows who paid)
The italian word for "a little" (ex. "a little" crescendo)
What is "un poco"
Name three most technically difficult composers in music.
What is Eugène Ysaÿe, Niccolo Paganini, Henryk Wieniawski, Franz Liszt, Frederic Chopin, Richard Strauss, etc.
Time period that Dvorak composed in
Sibelius's 8th symphony was finished days before he died (true or false)
What is false, Sibelius never got to finish his 8th symphony and is now known as "The Unfinished Symphony"
The set rule of the name of each variation from Edward Elgar's "Enigma Variations"
What is the initials of all Elgar's friends.
In a Ab Major scale, which note is the submediant?
What is F
Musician who Robert Schumann married (and the main instrument she played)
What is Clara Schumann, who plays piano
Name two composers that composed during World War l
What is Edward Elgar, Gustav Holst, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Maurice Ravel, Igor Stravinsky, etc.
The number of transcendental études written by Franz Liszt
What is 12 etudes
Pyotr Tchaikovsky's suspected cause of death
What is cholera
Name this chord: C, Eb, Gb, Bbb
What is a diminished 7th chord (root: C)
Name three composers were affected with the "curse of the ninth", or that died after composing their 9th symphony or did after starting their 10th.
What is Gustav Mahler, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Robert Schubert, Antonio Dvorak, Anton Bruckner, Alexander Glazunov, Ralph Vaughan Williams, etc.
The period of time when the "Russian Five" César Cui, Aleksandr Borodin, Mily Balakirev, Modest Mussorgsky, and Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, composed.
What is nationalism
The number of operas Georges Bizet wrote and the name of his last opera.
What is 30 operas, his last one being "Carmen"
The number of symphonies Pyotr Tchaikovsky wrote, and when did he die
What is 6 symphonies total, and Tchaikovsky died 9 days after the premiere of his 6th symphony. He also wouldn't let the doctors check up on him, and turned down any medical attention.
Name the order of the notes in a scale (ex. Tonic, supertonic, etc.)
What is tonic, supertonic, mediant, sub-dominant, dominant, mediant, leading tone