Ballets
The Nutcracker
Peter Tchailkosky
Cairo
Egypt
A set of detailed instructions for solving a problem
Algorithm
Largo, adagio, andante, allegro, and presto
Tempo
What seven-movement suite by Gustav Holst opens with the piece "Mars, the Bringer of War"
Planets
Fancy Free
Leonard Bernstein
Porto-Novo
Benin
A way to write algorithms and other instructions in a way that can be understood and executed by a computer
Programming language
Consists of three notes referred to as the root, third, and fifth
Chord
What cantata by Carl Orff begins and ends with a hymn to Fate, "O Fortuna"
Carmina Burana
Appalachian Spring
Aaron Copland
Yamoussoukro
Ivory Coast
A technique used in some algorithms
Recursion
"Home" scale of the work
Key
What Soviet composer included a "Dance of the Knights" in his ballet Romeo and Juliet
Prokofiev
Billy the Kid
Aaron Copland
Windhoek
Namibia
Algorithms that make the locally optimum or "best" choice at every step
Greedy algorithms
Indicates the volume
Dynamics
What French composer wrote Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun and La Mer
Debussy
Giselle
Adolphe Adam
Brazzaille
Republic of the Congo
Is used with many programming languages to covert human-readable code into instructions that a machine can execute
Compiler
Based on a tone row
Twelve tone technique
What composer wrote The Firebird and Petrushka for the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev
Igor Stravinsky