Baroque n' Renaissance
This pot shaped drum was one of the first percussion instruments to be used in an orchestra.
What is the kettle drum?
She won the Academy Award for Best Song in Mattel's Barbie.
Who is Billie Eilish?
Verdi’s score for his opera Il Trovatore requires two of these metal-working tools to be played during its famous “Chorus” bearing the same name.
What is an Anvil?
This OG Jazz cat played double bass, full name please.
Who is Charles Mingus?
This smashed “tone” is played on string instruments by over-pressuring the bow.
What is a crush-tone?
During the Baroque period, this musical genre was sometimes 4 hours long, and often featured as much dancing as it did singing.
What is Opera?
This Latin American drummer, singer/songwriter and producer who features a letter in her stage name, played with Herbie Hancock, Dianna Ross and Prince before hitting it big with her solo “The Glamorous Life.”
Who is Sheila E?
You better have your high C game on if you’re going to sing this famous aria from Mozart’s Magic Flute.
What is The Queen of the Night?
Made popular by performers like Gary Burton and Roy Ayers, this mallet instrument features metal bars and a motor.
What is the vibraphone?
This modern technique used by wind instruments literally means playing multiple pitches at the same time.
What is Multiphonic?
This fretted instrument typically featured 6 strings and was replaced by the modern day cello.
What is the Viola de Gamba?
This Grammy winning saxophonist who features a letter in his stage name, exclusively used straight saxophones in his ultra-sappy music videos
Who is Kenny G?
Between the ages of 12 and 14, Felix Mendelssohn wrote thirteen of this kind of symphony.
What is a string symphony?
Mash up a French Horn and a Trumpet, and you get this curiously named instrument used primarily in marching bands.
What is the frumpet?
Some people thought Arnold Schoenberg was a total Fruit-Loop when he introduced the world to this musical “ism”.
What is serialism?
Composed in 1365 by Guillaume de Machaut, this Mass named for a cathedral is sure to calm even the “Fighting Irish”.
What is Missa di Notre Dame?
This social media duo, with over 9.5 million followers, have helped bring classical music to the mainstream through their talent, antics and crowd-funded concert series.
What is TwoSet Violin?
In 1778, Antonio Rosetti wrote the first known piece for this, now standardized, quintet.
What is a woodwind quartet?
She was known as the First Lady of Song, no relation to John F. Kennedy.
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
This instrument, a drum with a rope attached to its membrane, might scare the Tiger’s and Bears - oh my!
What is a lion's roar?
Named for its shape, this low pitched wind instrument slithered its way right out of the modern day orchestra when it was ultimately replaced by the bassoon and the tuba.
What is the serpent?
This minimalist composer’s symphonies Low and Heroes incorporated themes from the iconic duo of Brian Eno and David Bowie.
Who is Phillip Glass?
This “symphony” about a man in an opium fueled haze culminates with him being led to the scaffolds before a witch’s sabbath.
What is Symphonie Fantastique?
This numbered genre of music was derived from mixing the two “streams” of jazz and classical together.
What is 3rd stream?
Jonathan Larson certainly had no trouble paying this, especially after winning both a Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize for his Musical of the same name.
What is Rent?