Arvo
Bach to Basics
Mini me
12-tone stuff
Misc
100

Arvo Part is from this country

Estonia

100

This is Bach's middle name

Sebastian

100

This 20th-century American movement featured small tonal units of music repeated with gradual variations

Minimalism

100

The number 1, when on a clock face, stands for this pitch

C#/Db

100

This is President Biden's middle initial

R

200

The German word "Spiegel" means this

mirror
200

In the German system, this letter denotes the pitch B-natural.

H

200

This composer wrote "Proverb," "Electric Counterpoint," and "Piano Phase"

Steve Reich

200
"Play on Notes" was written by this American composer

Milton Babbitt

200

This is the city we're in right now

Roseville

300

Part's "Credo" is, in part, an arrangement of this piece by Bach.

Prelude in C major

300

Bach wrote a series of swirls, indicating the tuning, on the cover page of this piece.

The Well-Tempered Clavier

300

In 1964, Terry Riley wrote this piece, consisting of 53 modules (we played an abbreviated version)

In C

300

This is the term for a motive played upside down

Inversion

300

Josh got his PhD from this university

University of Minnesota

400

This is the meaning of the word "Credo"

I believe

400

This German emperor presented Bach with a fugue subject to improvise on.

Frederick II

400

"Mad Rush" by Philip Glass influenced this film/TV score

Alice in Wonderland or Downton Abbey

400

This is the term for a motive played backwards

Retrograde

400

This composer has been nominated for 52 Academy Awards, second only to Walt Disney

John Williams

500

"Variations for the Healing of Arinushka" modulates between these two keys

A minor - A major

500

Bach was born and died in these years

1685-1750

500

Minimalist music plays during the cornfield scene in this movie

Interstellar


500

John Tavener wrote this choral piece, which arranges 12-tone techniques so that their axes form the shape of a cross

"The Lamb"

500

This composer was the youngest and oddest of Bach's 20-odd children; his music has recently been rediscovered by Peter Schickele

PDQ Bach