Statistics for Classical Music from A-Z #4

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The average score is 11 of 23

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	Hint	Answer	% Correct
M	A device which clicks regular beats at chosen tempos	metronome	88%
F	A composition which employs imitative counterpoint, mastered by Bach	fugue	84%
L	Italian term indicating to play very slowly	largo	84%
A	To stress a particular note or notes	accent	79%
W	A dance in moderate triple meter	waltz	79%
S	A "small" sonata	sonatina	69%
O	Term for a melodic phrase which is repeated "obstinately" throughout a composition, often, but not always, in the bass	ostinato	63%
R	To play with some freedom from a strict steady pulse	rubato	63%
T	Rapid alternation of a given note with its diatonic upper neighbor	trill	57%
N	A romantic style composition, usually written for piano, with an expressive melody over a broken chord accompaniment	nocturne	52%
K	Another name for timpani	kettle drum	49%
P	Another term for contrapuntal music, meaning 'many voices'	polyphony	44%
C	Avant-garde American composer who wrote works for "prepared piano"	Cage	40%
E	Term for how the mouth is used to produce sound on a wind or brass instrument	embouchure	39%
H	Considered by many to have been the 20th century's most outstanding concert pianist, this Russian artist made his American debut in 1928.	Vladimir Horowitz	36%
D	The low pipes of a bagpipe	drone	32%
B	A composition suggesting a "boat song" of Venietian gondoliers	barcarolle	25%
V	Full name of Texas pianist who won the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in Moscow in 1957, during the cold war	Van Cliburn	25%
I	Letters addressed to this unknown woman were found after Beethoven's death.	Immortal Beloved	21%
U	The left foot pedal on a piano, usually called the soft pedal	una corda	19%
Q	General term that can be applied to an opening phrase which ends on a note other than tonic	question	15%
G	Romantic Spanish composer Granados' most well-known work, a piano suite	Goyescas	12%
Z	F.irst name of Czech composer Fibich	Zdenko	12%