Musical math
This is the number of keys a piano has.
What is eighty-eight?
He is known for his six cello suites, many concerti, and is sometimes called the "Father of the Fugue."
Who is Bach?
An orchestra's concertmaster plays this instrument.
What is a violin?
Ms. Atlas AND Mr. Kaplan both went to this familiar high school.
What is Glenbrook North?
This Tchaikovsky ballet has the famous "Dance of the Little Swans".
What is Swan Lake?
Common time added together gets you this number.
What is eight?
He famously created a series of four violin concerti named after the seasons.
Who is Vivaldi?
A standard wind instrument found in many elementary school music classes.
What is a recorder?
Ms. Atlas plays this woodwind instrument.
What is the Oboe?
This violinist-composer was said to have made a deal with the devil.
Who is Paganini?
The number of strings a guitar has minus the number of strings a violin has
What is two?
The curse of the ninth is a classical superstition in music claiming that a composer will die after writing their ninth symphony. This composer is an example.
Who is (name at least one) Beethoven, Schubert, Mahler, Bruckner, Dvorak, Vaughn Williams?
This piece was the first one to utilize the celesta.
What is the nutcracker?
These are Ms. Atlas's two kids.
Who are Hazel and Ezra?
Beethoven's third symphony, Eroica, was originally meant to be dedicated to this French military leader.
Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?
6 / 8 has this many beats.
What is two?
This composer and his sister were paraded around Europe by their father as child prodigies
Who is Mozart?
An ancient stringed instrument often associated with the Greek god Apollo.
What is a lyre?
GSO has existed for this many years.
What is 47?
The title of Johann Strauss's operetta, Die Fledermaus, translates to this animal's name.
What is a bat?
This is the most commonly-agreed upon hertz value of A4
What is 440?
Frederic Chopin, a Polish pianist and composer, asked for this body part to be buried in Poland, separately from the rest of his body in Paris.
What is his heart?
A wind instrument developed by Indigenous Australians that produces a continuous droning sound using vibrating lips and a special breathing technique
What is the Didgeridoo?
The founder of the GSO
Who is Carl Meyer?
The most famous line in Rossini's The Barber of Seville is this character's name repeated over and over again.
What is Figaro?