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100

An adaptation of a piece written by Hungarian composer Béla Kéler.

What is Hungarian Dance No. 5 by Brahms?

100

Listen for two instruments

What are the flute and harp? (Mozart concerto)

100

Music programs are offered at MV 

What are orchestras, bands, choir, marching band, jazz band, guards, and percussion ensembles?

100

Fast, lively, and bright

What is Allegro?

100

Which composer wrote the famous ballet The Nutcracker?

Who is Tchaikovsky?

200

The piece takes its title and mood from an 1869 poem by French symbolist poet Paul Verlaine

What is Claire de Lune?

200

Listen for two instruments

What are the violin and viola? (Passacaglia)

200

Our Assistant Music Director

Who is Tim Yang?

200

At a walking pace

What is Andante?

200

Frédéric Chopin composed almost exclusively for which instrument

What is the piano?

300

The piece was commissioned by the band of the Royal Military School of Music at Kneller Hall.

What is English Folk Song Suite?

300

Listen for three instruments

What are the bassoon, clarinet, and oboe? (Villa-lobos trio)

300

Date of our Holiday concert

When is December 10-11?

300

In a singing style

What is cantabile?
300

Ludwig van Beethoven wrote this many total symphonies

What is nine?

400

The composer described the scene as an imperial court around 1855, emerging out of a swirling, misty atmosphere into the grand, glittering rhythm of a massive ballroom.

What is La Valse?

400

Listen for five instruments

What are the glass harmonica, oboe, flute, cello, and viola? (Mozart Adagio and Rondo)

400

The categories in audition rubrics at MVHS

What are Pitch Accuracy, Rhythmic Accuracy, Tone Quality, Articulation, Dynamics, Expression, Sight Reading


400

With fire, passion, or intensity

What is con fuoco?

400

John Cage’s famous 1952 composition 4′33″ consists of what?

What is four minutes and thirty three seconds of silence?

500

It is the final and most demanding work in one of the composer's famous trilogies

What is Feste Romane (Roman Festivals)?

500

Listen for seven instruments

What are the clarinet, horn, bassoon, violin, viola, cello, and double bass? (Beethoven septet)

500

The schools Mr. Gilchrist did student teaching at

Homestead and Lynbrook

500

As slow and broad as possible

What is Larghissimo?

500

Which member of "The Mighty Handful" (The Five) Russian composers lived a double life as a prominent professor of organic chemistry

Who is Borodin?