Composers
The composer known for writing much of his music completely deaf.
Ludwig van Beethoven
This musical period emphasized passion and emotion over reason, and saw many composers using music to tell stories.
Romantic
Flute, oboe, clarinet, and bassoon.
woodwinds
The term relating to the overall rhythmic identity of a piece of music, one unit of which is called a 'measure'.
meter
The oldest instrument ever found is a _____, crafted from a bear femur, and aged 60,000 years.
flute
German composer known for his revolutionary ideas in opera, as well as his problematic anti-Semitist views.
Richard Wagner
The solo concerto and concerto grosso are introduced and become significant music genres in this period.
Baroque
The instrument family to which the harp belongs.
strings
The two types of Mass liturgy used by the early Catholic church. One is used every day without change, while the other may add or substitute other texts based on the day.
Mass Ordinary, Mass Proper
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Nicknamed "Il Cannone", this violin is one of the most expensive in the world, and is insured for this astronomical amount (closest guess).
$16 million
A Russian-born composer known for his nationalist style and struggles with homosexuality.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The period when the orchestra was standardized into the four families we see today: strings, winds, brass, and percussion.
Classical
An instrument featuring 2-7 keyboards, which uses air power to produce sound from a series of pipes.
organ
A music term which means the tempo may fluctuate in an expressive manner.
rubato
With an astounding 8,097 musicians, the largest ______ ever assembled set the world record in 2019 in China.
orchestra
Johannes Brahms
In which period did the polyphonic motet and madrigal rise to prominence?
Renaissance
This instrument plucks strings rather than striking them, and is a precursor to the modern piano.
harpsichord
The middle section of Sonata-Allegro form.
This song involves a soloist sitting at piano without playing anything for a predetermined length of time, then bowing and walking off stage.
4' 33" by John Cage
The composer who coined the term "Emancipation of Dissonance", and started the Serialism movement in musical composition.
Arnold Schoenberg
Steve Reich, John Cage, and Phillip Glass are part of this 20th-century musical movement, which involves creating music from small, repeated bits.
Minimalism
This instrument is the lowest of the standard woodwind family, and features 18 feet of tubing folding on itself three times.
contrabassoon
A style of music that utilizes tone rows, transformed through retrograde, inverted, and retrograde inverted motion, as its entire basis.
Serialism
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An organ in Halberstadt, Germany is currently playing John Cage's "As Slow as Possible." The piece began in 2001 and is set to last ____ years (closest guess).
639 years