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WWhat artist depicted scenes from revelation in a set of 15 woodblocks

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Albrecht Durer

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What composer’s 2nd piano concerto opens with 8 bell like chords and was dedicated to his hypnotist, Nikolai Dahl

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Sergei Rachmaninofff

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What composer wrote an opera based of The Odyssey titled The Return of Ulysses to his Homeland

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Claudio Monteverdi

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What artist painted fruit and also painted pyramid of skulls

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Paul Cezanne

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What artists showed bees morphing into fish in his Metamorphosis II

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MC Escher

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What artist depicted a series of arches receding away from marble stairs where diogenes lounges

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Raphael

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In what opera do 2 characters note that love is torture in delight in the duet “Un, di. felice,trerea”

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La Traviata

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What man translated the bible into Latin and was depicted in the wilderness by Albrecht Durer

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Saint Jerome

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What new year’s march concludes with the audience clapping along

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Radetzky March

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What female impressionist artist painted Reading Le Figaro

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Cassat

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What state did Ansel Adams take Moon and Half Dome

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California

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What August Strindberg play is named after an upper-class woman

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Miss Julie

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In what opera does Donna Elvira announce her intention to enter a convent

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Don Giovanni

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What kind of comic opera did Mozart classify Don Giovanni as

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Opera Buffa

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What artist painted a man breaking a rod on his knee in The Marriage of the Virgin

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Raphael

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In what opera does a character sing the aria Un di, felice eterea,

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La Traviata

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What type of work is Beethoven’s nicknamed emperor

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Piano concerto

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What key is the dominant of F major

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C

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What painting shows Mary with the title elongated feature

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Madonna with the long neck

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In what opera does a character sing quando men vo

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La Boheme

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What art movement replaced the organic shapes of art noveau with geometric lines

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Art Deco

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What artist depicted two hands drawing each other

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MC Escher

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What musical features the con man Harold Hill singing about 76 trombones

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The Music Man

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What set of works are followed by a concerto titled “The Storm at Sea” and is part of the collection The Contest Between Harmony and Invention

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The four Seasons (Vivaldi)

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What musical piece features the tenor aria “Comfort ye my people” as it’s first vocal tune

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Messiah

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What cathedral did Cristopher Wren design

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St Paul’s cathedral

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Where is St Pauls cathedral

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London

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What man is depicted in the Landsowne portrait

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George Washington

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What piece contains the rising phrase D,D, F sharp, A, A

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Blue Danube Waltz

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What composer included 3 hornpipe movements in Water Music

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Handel

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What artist’s work The Sower is dominated by a gold-yellow sun

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Van Gogh

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What composer’s last major orchestral work was his only clarinet concerto

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Mozart

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What building’s west side had 28 kings of Judah until 1793

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Notre Dame

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What artist painted multiple portraits of Anna and Karl Kuerner

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Andrew Wyeth

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What ancient greek artist created the Discobolus

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Myron

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In what opera does a character repeat his own name in Largo Al Factotum

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Barber of Seville

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Who wrote the Barber of Seville

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Rossini

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What artist painted his friend winning a boating contest on the Schuylkill River in Max Schmitt in a single scull

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Thomas Eakins

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What composer invented the genre of the tone poem

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Franz Lizst

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What artist depicted a woman with a yellow hat and a cup of coffee in front of two rows of lights

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Hopper

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What instrument introduces the main theme of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

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Bassoon

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Who wrote the Sorcerer’s Apprentince

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Paul Dukas

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What artists drew a statue of a bird with a man’s head looking into the title object in his Still Life with Spherical Mirror

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MC Escher

44
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What instrument plays the main theme of the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy

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Celeste

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What artist painted The Bathers and the Mont-Sainte-Victoire series

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Paul Cezanne

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What tune is played during the tortoises section of The Carnival of the Animals

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Can Can

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What Beethoven symphony was originally dedicated to Napoleon

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Eroica

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What composer used Hans Bethge’s translations of Chinese poems to create a movement titled The Drunkard of Spring

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Gustav Mahler

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In what composers last opera does the Queen of Shemka sing a Hymn to the Sun

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Rimsky-Korsakov

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What artist drew seven cones floating above a chocolate grinder in a work composed of 2 cracked glass panels

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Marcel Duchamp

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What artist depicted nudes holding hands in a circle in multiple versions of La Danse

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Henry Mattisse

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What color is associated with Henry Mattises wife

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Green

53
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Who designed the arch

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Eero Saarinen

54
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What city did Arnold Schoenberg head a musical school

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Vienna

55
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What scientist derived three two by two particles that represent quantum mechanical spin operators for spin 1/2 particles

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Wolfgang Pauli

56
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What third movement of Suite Bergamasque is a piano piece whose title translates to moonlight

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Clair De Lune

57
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Who wrote Clair De Lune

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Debussy

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What 6 movement suite was dedicated by Debussy to his daughter and has sections title Jimbo’s lullaby

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Children’s Corner suite

59
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Who designed the Vietnam Veterans memorial

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Maya Lin

60
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What opera’s title character sings the aria largo al factotum

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Barber of Seville

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What sculpture can be found in the gardens of a museum named for it’s artists

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The Thinker

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What painting’s poses were inspired by Agasia’s sculpture Borghese Gladiator

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Watson and the Shark

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Who painted Watson and the Shark

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John Copley

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What composer didn’t finish a planned trilogy of oratios including The Apostles and The Kingdom

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Edward Elgar

65
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A player of what instrument formed a trio with John Mclaughlin and Larry Young

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Drums

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What man used pizzicato to represent clashing swords in the Combat of Tancredi and Clorinda

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Claudio Monteverdi

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What animals are depicted connected to a hand crank in a painting by Paul Clay

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Birds

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What composer’s opera contains the Prisoner’s Chorus

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Beethoven

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What painting was bought by the sculptor Maria Martins after it was showcased at the Valentine Gallery

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Broadway Boogie Woogie

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What school’s member Marianne Brandt created the Kandem bedside Lamp Table

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Bauhaus

71
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Who lead the photo secessionist movement and owned Galley 291

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Alfred Stieglitz

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What A minor piece is played almost exclusively with 16th notes

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Flight of the Bumblebee

73
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What artists made WW1 posters such as Smash the Hun

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Edward Hopper

74
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What man founded the New York City Ballet alongside Lincoln Kirstien

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George Balanchine

75
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What painting’s figures hold 2 globes and stand next to a red robed man that may be a self portrait

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School of Athens

76
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What composer’s score for an opera was stolen by a manager and never recovered

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Scott Joplin

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What composer included a provocative bacchanale in his opera Samson and Delilah

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Camille Saint-Seans

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What artist created a collaboration which shows him and another artist playing chess in Entract

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Marcell Duchamp

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What composer created a piano piece where a fast f sharp major frisca section comes after a somber la san section

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Franz Lizst

80
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What artist compiled much of his work into a book that features a piece with crosses resting atop mud dwellings called Taos Pueblo

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Ansel Adams

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What composer wrote an aria where a title character sings to his wife on his wedding day title Rosa del ciel, vita del mondo e degna

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Claudio Monteverdi

82
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What man included too many vertebrae in La Grande Odalisque

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Jean Auguste Ingres

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What man painted Napoleon touching an infected man’s armpit in Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa

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Jean-Antoine Gros

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What ballet is based on a puppet who comes to life and attempts to woo a ballerina

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Petruska

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Who wrote Petrushka

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Igor Stravinsky

86
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What piece’s 3 parts include a pifa, or pastoral symphony

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Messiah

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What composer wrote 6 Moments musicaux for solo piano 70 years after Schubert

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Sergei Rachmaninoff

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What opera concludes with orchestral magic fire music as Loge is summoned to create a protective ring around Brunnhilde

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The Valkyrie

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Who composed The Valkyrie

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Richard Wagner

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What man has an incestuous relationship with his twin sister Sieglinde in The Valkyrie

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Siegmund

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What painting’s leftmost figure wears blue robes and reaches both hands towards the sky

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The Opening of the Fifth Seal

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Who painted the Opening of the Fifth Seal

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El Greco

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What Picasso painting was inspired by The Opening of the Fifth Seal

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Les Demoiselles d’Avignon

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What composer included “NOw I see why with such dark flames in his song cycle Kindertotenlieder

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Gustav Mahler

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in what painting does a black horse look at an incubus sitting on the chest of a sleeping woman

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The Nightmare

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Who painted The Nightmare

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Henry Fuseli

97
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What artists painted a lion standing on top of a sand dune in The Sleepy Gypsy

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Henri Rousseau

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What tone poem quotes the popular song La Mantovana to portray the title Bohemian River

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Die Moldau

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What type of instrumental work is typically the first thing played as part of a stage production

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Overture

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What jazz musician worked with Bob Weinstock to improvise the melody to Sweet Sapphire Blues

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John Coletrane

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