This composer is known as the 'father of the symphony'.
Who is Joseph Haydn?
100
This is the nickname for Mozart's Serenade No. 13 in G major, K. 525 for strings.
What is 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik'?
100
This 18th-century term was used broadly to describe a chamber work intended for light entertainment on a social occasion.
What is 'serenade'?
100
This term indicates a pause or rest that has the time duration of one fourth of the time duration of a whole rest.
What is a 'quarter rest'?
100
This is the name of the room we are currently in.
What is 'Kleines Studio'?
200
This composer had the nickame of 'little mushroom'.
Who is Franz Schubert?
200
This piece by Maurice Ravel was originally composed as a ballet commissioned by Russian actress and dancer, Ida Rubinstein.
What is 'Boléro'?
200
This is a stylistic term used to describe the music of composers like Stockhausen, Penderecki, Xenakis and Varèse.
What is 'avante garde'?
200
This term is a scale of eight pitches per octave arranged by alternating half steps and whole steps.
What is an 'octatonic scale'?
200
True or False: Passive participants can rent practice rooms.
What is false? (only active participants can rent out practice rooms)
300
For a period, this composer only ate foods that were white and only wore velvet.
Who is Eric Satie?
300
This is the number of pieces in Satie's 'Three Pieces in the Shape of a Pear'.
What is seven?
300
This is the name of the concept created by Wagner to descibe the integration text, music, and staging in order to elevate the drama of opera to a more sophisticated level.
What is 'Gesamtkunstwerk'?
300
This is a recurring motif in a composition which represents a specific character, place, idea, or emotion.
What is 'Leitmotif'?
300
This is the name of the big performance hall right outside of the Mozarteum.
What is Solitär?
400
This composer organized the first performance of St. Matthew Passion since Bach's death and continued to promote his works.
Who is Felix Mendelssohn?
400
This is the subtitle for Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta, 'The Pirates of Penzance'.
What is 'The Slave of Duty'?
400
This popular 18th century instrument reportedly made players go insane and fell out of practice within the century.
What is the glass harmonica?
400
This is an unnaturally or artificially high-pitched voice or register when singing. It is used mainly by male singers but women can also use it.
What is 'falsetto'?
400
This is the person who founded the summer academy in 1916.
Who is Lilli Lehmann?
500
This composer was inducted into a butcher's guild at the age of 13.
Who is Antonin Dvorak?
500
This was the first opera ever written.
What is 'Dafne' by Jacopo Peri.
500
This was the new nickname for the Russian Five/Mighty Handful when they reformed in 1860.
What is 'the Mighty Little Heap'?
500
This term was used in Medieval music to denote a freely-invented rhythmic pattern.
What is 'talea'?
500
These are the four main composers on our pamphlet (this summer's focal point composers).