Hint | Answer | % Correct | |
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H | Early keyboard instrument which has strings "plucked" by a plectrum instead of being struck by a hammer | harpsichord | 80%
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C | Perhaps Debussy's most well-known composition, written for piano, but transcribed numerous times for other instruments | Clair de Lune | 72%
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E | Term for a technical study- In Chopin's works Opus 10 and Opus 25 they qualify as masterworks. | etude | 70%
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L | Italian term that means to play smoothly | legato | 69%
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A | Sharps and/or flats added to a composition that are not in the key signature | accidentals | 63%
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I | The art of creating "on the spot" expanding on a musical motif | Improvisation | 63%
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S | 20th century Russian composer whose orchestral work "Le Sacre du Printemps" shocked audiences | Stravinsky | 62%
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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%
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F | Musical symbol that indicates to hold a note (or rest) longer than its specific value | fermata | 54%
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O | Composer of Carmina Burana | Orff | 54%
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P | Term for a 5-note scale which can be produced on the piano by playing only the black keys | pentatonic | 54%
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M | Term indicating moving from one tonal center to another related key | modulation | 50%
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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%
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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%
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J | Nickname of Mozart's last symphony | Jupiter | 44%
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U | Nickname for Schubert's B minor symphony | Unfinished | 43%
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V | Compositional technique in which a basic melody and/or harmonic structure is changed in a series of creative sections | Variations | 34%
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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%
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Z | First name of Hungarian composer Kodaly, a contemporary of Bartok | Zoltan | 23%
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K | Original German name of Schumann's "Scenes From Childhood" | Kinderszenen | 21%
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T | Dodecophony: compositional technique using a tone row rather than a traditional tonal center | Twelve-tone | 17%
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Q | Popular opera by Tchaikovsky | Queen of Spades | 12%
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X | Medieval troubadours' lyrics could often be described this way. | x-rated | 10%
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D | Schubert's Fantasia in F minor, D. 940, is one of the finest works of this repertoire. | piano duet | 8%
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Y | Succesful Broadway producer and composer during 1st half of 20th century whose first name was Vincent | Youmans | 5%
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N | Celebrated 20th century Brazilian concert pianist Guiomar________ | Novaes | 4%
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