Composers
Physics of Music
Musicians
Name That Tune
Miscellaneous
100

Born on Dec. 17, 1770, it is the 250th anniversary of this composer's birthday.

Who is Ludwig Van Beethoven?

100

The name of the peak of a wave.

What is the crest?

100

One of the most influential American jazz musicians played the trumpet. 

Who is Louis Armstrong?

100

I can't breathe

What is Black Lives Matter Official Video?

100

A composer who wrote a piece of music of complete silence lasting four minutes and thirty three seconds

Who is John Cage?

200

He was an African American Composer, dubbed the King of Ragtime, who wrote Maple Leaf Rag.

Who is Scott Joplin?

200

The measurement from middle to the crest of the wave.

What is the amplitude?

200

As the youngest person to have ever won the Pulitzer Prize in music, she sings and graduated from Yale with a master's degree in violin performance.

Who is Carolyn Shaw?

200

Imagine all the people living for today

What is imagine?

200

Using the system of Kodaly syllabic notation, it can be read as a syllable lasting one beat.

What is called ta?

300

An American Composer who has written hundreds of iconic scores for film.

Who is John Williams?

300

The number of cycles a wave travels per second.

What is frequency?

300

An American singer-songwriter and actress who has been called the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul.

Who is Mary J. Blige?

300

Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge
I'm trying not to lose my head

What is The message?

300

The reuse of a portion of sound recording in another recording. 

What is sampling?

400

An Austrian composer attributed for developing the style and form of the classical style of quartets and symphonies with wide dynamic range.

Who is Franz Joseph Haydn?

400

A wave which oscillates in time but whose peak amplitude profile does not move in space.

What is a standing wave?

400

An Austrian composer and pianist who was considered a child prodigy, and incorporated Twinkle Little Star in his work, "Ah vous dirai-je, Maman".

Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?

400

Now, what you hear is not a test I'm rappin' to the beat,
And me, the groove, and my friends are gonna try to move your feet

What is Rapper's Delight?

400

The object or amplification of sound used to create music. 

What is an instrument?

500

A french composer who wrote operas, symphonic poems and a fantasy that features animals.

Who is Camille Saint-Saens?

500

A phenomenon that occurs when two waves meet while traveling along the same medium.

What is interference?

500

A grammy winning singer originally from Africa who creates an innovative fusion of jazz, hip-hop, Zairean rumba, salsa, funk and gospel.

Who is Angelique Kidjo?

500

The movement is a rhythm to us
Freedom is like religion to us
Justice is juxtapositionin' us
Justice for all just ain't specific enough

What is Glory?

500

An oscillation of the parts of a fluid or an elastic solid whose equilibrium has been disturbed, or of an electromagnetic wave.

What is vibration?