Statistics for Classical Music From A-Z #2

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	Hint	Answer	% Correct
H	Early keyboard instrument which has strings "plucked" by a plectrum instead of being struck by a hammer	harpsichord	80%
C	Perhaps Debussy's most well-known composition, written for piano, but transcribed numerous times for other instruments	Clair de Lune	72%
E	Term for a technical study- In Chopin's works Opus 10 and Opus 25 they qualify as masterworks.	etude	70%
L	Italian term that means to play smoothly	legato	69%
A	Sharps and/or flats added to a composition that are not in the key signature	accidentals	63%
I	The art of creating "on the spot" expanding on a musical motif	Improvisation	63%
S	20th century Russian composer whose orchestral work "Le Sacre du Printemps" shocked audiences	Stravinsky	62%
R	20th century Russian composer who moved to America after the 1917 revolution and became one of the higest paid concert performers of his time	Rachmaninoff	60%
F	Musical symbol that indicates to hold a note (or rest) longer than its specific value	fermata	54%
O	Composer of Carmina Burana	Orff	54%
P	Term for a 5-note scale which can be produced on the piano by playing only the black keys	pentatonic	54%
M	Term indicating moving from one tonal center to another related key	modulation	50%
G	A very quick note played immediately before (or at the same time as) the principal note, theoretically receiving no rhythmic value	grace note	48%
W	One of Handel's best known compositions, a suite for wind instruments, reportedly written for the entertainment of King George I of England	Water Music	46%
J	Nickname of Mozart's last symphony	Jupiter	44%
U	Nickname for Schubert's B minor symphony	Unfinished	43%
V	Compositional technique in which a basic melody and/or harmonic structure is changed in a series of creative sections	Variations	34%
B	Chopin used this name, taken from prose narratives, for his compositions which included Opus 23 in G minor and Opus 52 in F minor.	Ballade	30%
Z	First name of Hungarian composer Kodaly, a contemporary of Bartok	Zoltan	23%
K	Original German name of Schumann's "Scenes From Childhood"	Kinderszenen	21%
T	Dodecophony: compositional technique using a tone row rather than a traditional tonal center	Twelve-tone	17%
Q	Popular opera by Tchaikovsky	Queen of Spades	12%
X	Medieval troubadours' lyrics could often be described this way.	x-rated	10%
D	Schubert's Fantasia in F minor, D. 940, is one of the finest works of this repertoire.	piano duet	8%
Y	Succesful Broadway producer and composer during 1st half of 20th century whose first name was Vincent	Youmans	5%
N	Celebrated 20th century Brazilian concert pianist Guiomar________	Novaes	4%