Music or Medicine?
Hemiola
Music (normal grouping of beats is shifted)
Hit movie about a jazz student in a music conservatory, known for the quote “Not quite my tempo.”
Whiplash (2014)
This composer threw repeated fits and tore up parts of the score while composing the “Eroica Symphony”
How many symphonies did Beethoven write
9
Stravinsky’s ”The Rite of Spring”
Chorea
Medicine (involuntary movement disorder)
In La La Land, Sebastian Wilder (Ryan Gosling) dreams of opening a jazz club and mainly plays which instrument?
Piano
While writing his 8th symphony, this composer stopped midway and never finished it for unknown reasons.
Schubert
How many seasons/movements did Vivaldi write in his most popular collection of violin concertos?
4
Handel’s “Messiah”
Encore!
Ostinato
Music (repeated pattern or phrase)
In this movie, a young Mexican boy pursues guitar despite his family now allowing music at all.
Coco
This composer incorporates multiple themes from exploring a new country, and thinking back on his homeland of Czech.
Dvořák
What year did Tchaikovsky write his famous overture featuring actual cannons?
Mahler, Symphony No. 1 “Titan”
Eyesore!
Antiphon
Music (call-and-response chant)
In School of Rock, Dewey Finn (Jack Black) pretends to be a substitute teacher and creates a rock band out of an elementary class. What instrument does he play?
Guitar
This composer created his 5th symphony in memory of his recently deceased friend.
Mahler
How long is John Cage’s famous piece composed of nothing but silence?
4 minutes, 33 seconds.
Rossini’s “Barber of Seville”
Eyesore
Neume
Music (early notation symbol in Gregorian chants)
The movie Amadeus tells the story of this composer. (Hint: it’s in the title!)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
This composer created a “Surprise Symphony”, known for a loud chord in the second movement to wake up sleeping audience members.
Haydn
Rimsky-Korsakov’s symphonic suite “Scheherazade” is based on a collection of Middle Eastern tales called “The - Nights”
1,001
Bizet’s ”Carmen”
Eyesore (Considered immoral!)