Terminology
The highness or lowness of sound.
What is pitch?
Mozart composed this listening companion in 1791, featuring the glass armonica.
What is Adagio in C for Glass Armonica?
Influential piece featuring the unconventional harmonic technique bitonality.
What is Jeux D'eau by Maurice Ravel?
This listening companion features a cantata-anthem structure.
What is A Sea Symphony?
A magical mountain where Czech hero's wait to rescue their homeland.
What is Blanik
Monophony, homophony, polyphony, and heterophony.
What are the types of texture in Western music?
This listening companion features a call and response pattern.
What is "Haul Away the Bowline?"
This symbol tells a performer to stop the steady pulse of the music and to sustain the sound (or silence) wherever it appears.
What is a fermata?
The creator of the ballet "Swan Lake".
Who is Pyotr Tchaikovsky?
The second largest Chinese waterway.
What is The Yellow River?
Series of chords or intervals that moves from tension (dissonance) toward resolution (consonance)
What is a harmonic progression?
This instrument has fallen out of active use, but was used by the ancient Greeks and Romans.
What is the hydraulis?
The Carnival of the Animals, MVT. VII "Aquarium" features this kind of arpeggios.
What are contrary-motion arpeggios?
A single-movement programmatic work for orchestra.
What is a tone poem?
The stigma attached to the Yellow River due to the Floods that it has caused.
What is "China's Sorrow"
Series of successive pitches perceived by the ear to form a coherent whole.
What is melody?
Type of song used by gondoliers to attract customers
What is a barcarolles?
A piece that features a solo instrument, usually accompanied by a piano.
What is a sonata?
The Co-founders of Minnesota Composers Forum.
Who is Libby Larsen and Stephen Paulus?
The synonym of this term is "Drainage Basin". A way to measure the size of a river.
What is Watershed?
This Italian term stands for "at a walking tempo."
What is andante?
This author worked on a ship before becoming a novelist, describing his time in the story Redburn: His First Voyage.
Who is Herman Melville?
These two time periods/movements feature songs with arpeggios.
What is Impressionism and Post-Impressionism?
A patch of larger ripples where a wind gust has stirred up the surface of a calm body of water. Often appears a darker color.
What is a Cats paw?
The person in charge of the spoken dialogue in a musical.
What is a a librettist.