Music Theory Terms
What is the speed of a piece?
Tempo
The Ballet by Aaron Copland (1944)
Appalachian Spring
What is a set of detailed instructions for solving a problem?
Algorithm
Capital of Algeria
Algiers
What win instrument has a high solo at the beginning of The Rite of Spring and represents the Grandfather in Peter and the Wolf?
The Bassoon
What markings indicate the volume which music is played?
Dynamic markings
The Ballet by Aaron Copland (1938)
Billy the Kid
What is a graph called if every edge has a number representing the "cost" of traveling the edge?
Capital of Benin
Porto-Novo
What composer wrote The Firebird and Petrushka for the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev?
Igor Stravinsky
What word refers to the various techniques which may be used to modify the attack or performance of a single note or a series of notes?
Articulation
The Ballet by Ludwig van Beethoven (1801)
The Creatures of Prometheus
What is the use of recursion as the last step of an algorithm?
Tail Recursion
Capitol of Cameroon
Yaounde
What French composer wrote Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun and La Mer?
Claude Debussy
What is referred to as the home scale of the work?
Key
The ballet by Darius Milhaud (1923)
The Creation of the World
What algorithm is used to find the shortest path between two vertices of a graph?
Dijkstra's Algorithm
Capitol of Comoros
Moroni
What seven-movement suite by Gustav Holst opens with the piece "Mars, the Bringer of War"?
The Planets
What is a works overall structure?
Form
The Ballet by Peter Tchaikovsky
The Nutcracker
What languages do not check types when compiling?
Dynamically typed languages
Capitol of Djibouti
Dijibouti
What Soviet composer included a "Dance of the Knights" in his ballet Romeo and Juliet?
Prokofiev