Musical Instruments
This instrument was invented by Adolph Sax.
Saxophone
When you sing your favorite song, you sing this.
Melody
This composer was a child prodigy, composing many operas that couldn't earn enough receipts to cover the overhead.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
This cue from an Opera portrays the villain having her moment, persuading her daughter to kill the protagonist.
Queen of the Night - Mozart
Which composer died after stabbing his own foot during a performance?
Jean-Baptiste Lully
This instrument, stretched out, would be longer than a school bus.
Tuba
Unpitched percussion instrument can not play different notes, so they use this element extensively.
Rhythm
This composer invented many concepts in Music Theory like Counterpoint, Fugues, and tiered level method books.
Johann Sebastian Bach
This piece features the most well known Motif in all of classical music. Dun-Dun-Dun-DUUUUNNNNNN
Symphony No. 5 - Beethoven
Which composer had his life spared in a duel because the buttons on his coat blocked a rapier thrust?
George Frederic Handel
This instrument has the highest range of all brass instruments.
Trumpet
Polyphonic music, what you're most used to, is one of three musical _______.
Textures
This composer ran from persecution over his sexuality his whole life, and his death from cholera may actually have been a suicide.
Pyotr Illych Tchaikovsky
This piece tells an entire fictional story that could have been a novel. Love, Rejection, Murder, Execution, and monsters in Hell.
Symphonie Fantastique - Berlioz
This violinist is said to have sold his soul to the devil in exchange for talent in his lifetime.
Niccolo Paganini
This instrument, part of the flute family, is an octave higher than a transverse flute.
Piccolo
When two people sing a Duet, one person will sing the melody, while the other will sing the _______.
Harmony
This composer wrote the first "songs" including Der Erlkonig.
Franz Schubert
This piece is the only from our course written in Monophonic Chant
In Principio Omnes - von Bingen
This Greek Myth, more than any other, has been the subject of more operas.
Orpheus and Eurydice
This double reed instrument can play the lowest note in a Wind Ensemble; lower than a Grand Piano.
Contrabassoon
This element is the reason a flute sounds different than a violin.
Timbre
This composer worked directly for King Henry VIII in England when the church was split.
Thomas Tallis
This Operatic cue is sung just before the main character's suicide.
When I am Laid in Earth - Purcell
This instrument in it's first form was only carried on horseback, which frequently killed the horse.
Timpani (Nakers)