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MUSIC COMP.
CLASSICAL COMPOSERS
100

This major key has no sharps or flats.

What is C major?

100

This instrument is the highest-pitched brass instrument in the band and orchestra.

What is a trumpet?

100

The amount of people playing a solo.

What is 1?

100

This symbol is used to indicate a note a half-step above the original note in the key signature.

What is a sharp?

100

This composer composed "Swan Lake" and "the Nutcracker".

who is Tchaikovsky?

200

This major key has three flats.

What is Eb major?

200

This instrument is the highest-pitched wind instrument in the band, one octave higher than the flute.

What is a piccolo?

200

The amount of people playing a duet.

What is 2?

200

This note is sustained for 3/4 of a count in 4/4 time.

what is a dotted eighth note?

200

This composer composed the "Four Seasons". 

Who is Vivaldi?

300

This minor key has a relative key of Bb major.

What is G minor?

300

This instrument is tuned a fifth lower than a violin.

What is a viola?

300

The amount of people who play in a quintet.

What is 5?

300

This symbol, written either on top of or below a musical note, means to hold the note for its entire length.

What is a tenuto?

300

This classical composer started going deaf during his music career, yet went on to write some of his most famous works that he likely never got to hear.

Who is Beethoven?

400

These three notes in the major scale make up that major key's arpeggio.

What are the first, third, and fifth of a key?

400

The national instrument of Scotland.

What are bagpipes?
400

These brass instruments are the marching band version of the French horn.

What is a mellophone?

400

In this time signature, there are 5 beats in a measure and the eighth note receives the beat.

What is 5/8 time?

400

This composer is best known for "West Side Story".

Who is Leonard Bernstein?

500

This chord is a triad built from the root note, a minor third, and a diminished fifth.

What is a diminished chord?
500

This instrument is featured in a Legend of Zelda game's name: "The _____ of time". It is played by blowing into carved holes.

What is an ocarina?
500

This is the instrumentation of a woodwind quintet.

What ensemble has the instrumentation Flute, Bassoon, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn?

500

This clef features a middle C in the center of its staff.

What is alto clef?

500

This composer exclaimed, "If that's a bassoon, then I'm a baboon!" After hearing the intro to Rite of Spring.

Who is Camille Saint-Saens?