Statistics for Classical Music- All C's

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
19th century Polish composer and pianist who spent most of his life in Paris	Chopin	98%
Woodwind reed instrument featured in opening of Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue"	clarinet	89%
Several tones combined to create specific sound qualities: for example, major, minor, diminished, augmented	chord	85%
Schumann's wife's first name	Clara	83%
A multi-movement musical composition written for soloist(s) and orchestra	concerto	83%
Key signature (3 flats) of Beethoven's 5th symphony	c minor	81%
A scale consisting of only half-steps	chromatic	71%
A virtuostic unaccompanied passage in a concerto	cadenza	68%
Music composed for a small group of instruments, for example, string quartets	chamber music	66%
Carl Orff's best known composition, written for voice and orchestra	Carmina Burana	55%
Compositional technique in which voices are interwoven and overlapping, partucularly dominant in the Baroque era	counterpoint	45%
A choral composition usually of a secular nature, popular in the Baroque	cantata	39%
Mozart's wife's first name	Constanze	28%
Term used for the early predecessors of the piano, the harpsichord and the clavichord	clavier	26%