Theoretically Speaking
This interval is known in music as the "Devil's Interval".
The major key with 5 flats.
What is Db Major?
What is tenuto?
The bow stroke that requires bouncing the bow at the balance point.
What is spiccatto?
The genre of Mozart's The Magic Flute.
What is opera?
This interval is the opening two notes of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow".
What is an octave?
The minor key with 4 sharps.
What is C# minor?
This means to play in a "singing" style.
What is cantabile?
The instrument section in an orchestra that should "lead" a decrescendo.
What are the violins?
The number of movements in a traditional orchestral concerto.
What is three?
The series of intervals in a major scale.
What is whole-whole-half-whole-whole-whole-half?
The category of time signatures with a subdivision of 3 instead of 2.
What is compound meter.
The tempo marking that translates to "a walking pace", usually 76-108bpm.
What is andante?
The French term for the foundational bowing that indicates separate bow strokes with slight separation.
What is détaché?
A modern orchestra tunes to an A of this frequency.
What is 440 hertz?
These are the two intervals that construct a major triad, or major chord, in order from bottom to top.
What is a major third and minor third?
The scale degrees that need to be lowered by a half step to turn a major scale into its parallel minor scale.
What is the 3rd, 6th, and 7th?
The form of music, originating in the Baroque era, that features a group of soloists backed by an orchestra.
What is Concerto Grosso?
The name of the technique indicating to play over the bridge.
What is sul ponticello?
The era of music that Beethoven composed in during most of his life.
What is Classical?
This is the name of the major chord built off the 5th degree of a major or minor scale, which wants to resolve back to the "tonic".
What is the dominant?
7/8 and 5/4 are both examples of this category of time signatures.
What are complex meters?
An instruction to gradually fade the music out to silence, translates to "dying".
What is morendo?
The bow stroke that involves a heavy pinch or bite at the beginning, followed by a sudden release and swift movement.
What is martelé?
This famous Austrian composer, known as the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet," wrote over 100 symphonies.
Who is Joseph Haydn?