Instrument Families
To what family does the euphonium belong?
brass
Middle Ages
What musical features Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, the Lion, two witches, and a wizard?
Wizard of Oz
Count Almaviva, a Spanish nobleman, is in love with Rosina, the rich ward of Dr Bartolo, an old physician, who plans to marry her himself. Almaviva has followed Rosina from Madrid to Seville, disguised as a poor student called Lindoro.
The Barber of Seville
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To what family does the saxophone belong?
woodwind
With what musical time period is composer Gabrieli associated?
Renaissance
What musical features a nanny, a military captain, a baroness, seven children, nuns, and Nazis?
The Sound of Music
This opera follows the adventures of Prince Tamino and the bird-catcher Papageno on their quest to rescue Pamina. It features an enchanted musical instrument.
The Magic Flute
This is a dramatic work in one or two acts set to music for singers and instrumentalists.
Opera
To what family does the harp belong?
string
With what musical time period is composer Bach associated?
Baroque
What musical based a novel by Gregory Maguire takes us back to the land of Oz, but focuses on its green villain?
Wicked
Set in Seville around the year 1830, this opera deals with the love and jealousy of Don José, who is lured away from his duty as a soldier and his beloved Micaëla by the gypsy factory-girl Carmen, whom he allows to escape from custody.
Carmen
This is a large-scale musical work, based on stories from the Bible, for solo voices, chorus, and orchestra.
Oratorio
What woodwind does not require a reed?
flute
With what musical time period is Beethoven associated?
Classical
This is a sung-through musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the 1939 poetry collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Felines by T. S. Eliot.
Cats
This opera is about the tragic love story of Mimí and Rodolfo, set in Paris in the year 1830. Four arty types shiver in a garret, owing rent but when one of their number, musician Schaunard, earns money they are all set to buy a meal in a nearby restaurant.
La Boheme
Music is written on a staff. A staff has how many lines and how many spaces?
5 lines, 4 spaces
What two families does the piano belong to?
percussion and string
What was the first musical instrument?
flute
Based on the 1910 French novel of the same name by Gaston Leroux, the central plot of this musical revolves around a beautiful soprano, Christine Daaé, who becomes the obsession of a mysterious, masked musical genius living in the subterranean labyrinth beneath the Paris Opéra House.
Phantom of the Opera
Mozart's outrageous comedy opera tells the tale of an incorrigible young playboy who blazes a path to his own destruction in a single day.
Don Giovanni
In musical notation, this tell you how many beats are in a measure and what note gets one beat.
time signature