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Music by Letter - O

Identify these musical things that start with the letter O.
The previous quiz in this series can be found here (Quiz N)
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Last updated: September 20, 2018
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First submittedMarch 3, 2017
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Church instrument with pipes
Organ
What a conductor conducts
Orchestra
Double reed instrument
Oboe
Lennon's Yoko
Ono
Musical performance such as
"Carmen" or "La bohème"
Opera
Instrumental introduction to the above
Overture
Wind instrument played by Link
in some Zelda games
Ocarina
Musical based on a Dickens novel
Oliver!
Soul singer Redding
Otis
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Musical interval of 8 notes
Octave
Boy band abbreviated as 1D
One Direction
Ozzy's last name
Osbourne
"Surrey with the Fringe on Top" musical
Oklahoma
Specific numbered work of a composer
Opus
Beatles song "________'s Garden"
Octopus
Rock band: Blue ______ Cult
Öyster
_____ of a lonely heart, much better
than the _____ of a broken heart
Owner
Last name of Donny and Marie
Osmond
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Level 87
Aug 23, 2018
I notice that while the quiz writer was fastidious enough to put the exclamation mark on "Oliver!", he/she was not quite fastidious enough to do the same for "Oklahoma!".
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Level 63
Jan 21, 2019
Oops. Whoops!
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Level 75
Sep 6, 2018
Please accept One Dimension
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Level 65
Jan 22, 2019
How is one dimension related to music?
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Level 75
Mar 8, 2019
I was slating One Direction
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Level 79
Nov 2, 2021
It was quite amusing, too :)
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Level 66
Oct 26, 2018
Didn't get credit for "ochorina". There have been a lot of misspellings more egregious than this accepted.
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Level 86
Jan 21, 2019
The term "ochorina" only applies to ocarinas that have exactly 8 holes.
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Level 48
Jan 21, 2019
One Direction isn't musical
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Level 34
Jan 22, 2019
I hate to be a pedant but I don't think an octave is 8 notes because note doesn't really mean anything - a much better description would be "an interval of 12 semitones"
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Level 84
Feb 9, 2020
I think it's fine. Unless specified otherwise it's normal to assume that the notes being referred to are those of a diatonic scale.
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Level 85
Jan 12, 2022
Notice how people who begin with "I hate to be a pedant" never let that stop them?
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Level 83
Mar 21, 2022
I usually prefer to embrace my pedantry when it is forthcoming as opposed to apologizing for it
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Level 73
May 12, 2022
Better pedantry- the interval of 12 semitones is a function of the development of equal temperament in the 18th century; before that, the octave was thought of as 8 tones (hence oct-ave) which could be sharped or flatted.