Statistics for Classical Music From A-Z #6

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	Hint	Answer	% Correct
Y	Style of singing used in the Swiss Alps	Yodel	74%
J	20th century American musical style which was "fused" with classic style in the works of Gershwin, Shostakovich and others	jazz	72%
U	Country of birth of George Gershwin and Charles Ives	United States	72%
S	Italian term that indicates to play a note very crisp and detached	staccato	69%
V	19th century Italian opera composer	Verdi	67%
C	School dedicated to musical instruction	conservatory	66%
D	Symbol placed after a note which lengthens its value by half again	dot	65%
O	Term for introductory composition for an opera	overture	60%
I	George Gershwin's brother, who wrote the lyrics to many of his songs	Ira	52%
K	The sharps or flats at the beginning of each staff indicating the tonal cneter of a composition	key signature	52%
L	Mozart's domineering father's given name	Leopold	52%
M	Polish dance in 3/4 time, the style of which Chopin used for more than 50 piano solos	mazurka	52%
A	In string technique, this term indicates to play with the bow; generally used after a non-bowed passage such as 'pizzicato'	arco	50%
H	Liszt composed 19 works with this title, reflecting the spirit of his birth country.	Hungarian Rhapsody	41%
E	A piece performed between acts of an opera	entr'acte	37%
F	One of Chopin's most popular compositions, Opus 66, written in C# minor	Fantasie-Impromptu	24%
W	Name applied to Beethoven's Sonata Opus 53, in C major	Waldstein	23%
N	Mozart's talented sister was named Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia, but she was always called___________.	Nannerl	20%
R	Last movement of Mozart's piano sonata K, 331	Rondo alla Turca	20%
P	Chopin's Opus 28, in which he explores every major and minor key	Preludes	19%
Q	Beethoven's Opus 18 #1-6	quartets	19%
T	One of MacDowell's most-loved piano solos- simple, but lovely	To a Wild Rose	10%
Z	German town where Robert Schumann was born	Zwickau	10%
B	In string technique, to strike the strings with the bow: col legno______	battuto	8%
G	Flamboyant American 19th century composer/pianist who used African-American and Creole music for inspiration for his brilliant, rhythmic compositions	Louis Moreau Gottschalk	6%