Statistics for Classical Music- All M's

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Child prodigy, musical genius of the 18th century, composer of 40 symphonies in classic style	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	85%
Austrian-Bohemian composer, 1860-1911, composer of 10 symphonies	Gustav Mahler	77%
Gernan Romantic-era composer of Songs Without Words and a violin concerto in e minor	Felix Mendelssohn	69%
Oratorio by Handel, now typically performed during Christmas season, but which actually premiered at Easter in 1742 in Dublin	Messiah	69%
Device for muffling sound on a musical instrument	mute	69%
Composer of the opera "Cavalleria Rusticana"	Mascagni	54%
Another term for time signature	meter	46%
Comic opera by above composer in which Susannah, a servant in a rich man's household, successfully defies him and marries her true love	The Marriage of Figaro	46%
Contrapuntal part-song, usually unaccompanied, popular in the renaissance	madrigal	38%
Term for ornament indicating to very quickly play from the principal note to its lower diatonic neighbor and back	mordent	38%
Mode which has a lowered 7th step from major	mixolydian	31%
Three note chord constructed of a major third and a perfect 5th from the root	major triad	23%
Vocal passage sung on one syllable	melisma	23%
Three note chord constructed of a minor 3rd and a perfect 5th	minor triad	23%