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0
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These words are from what song? Dormez-vous, dormez-vous?
Sonnez les matines, sonnez les matines, Ding, dang, dong. Ding, dang, dong.

A

Frère Jacques

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President Ford awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to what composer of songs that include “This Is the Army” and “God Bless America”?

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Irving Berlin

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These words are from a verse in what song?
How many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky
How many ears must one man have Before he can hear people cry

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Blowing in the Wind (Bob Dylan 1962)

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The background music for a soloist is called the what?

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accompaniment

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Who wrote the Moonlight Sonata?

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Ludwig van Beethoven

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5
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Place these in order from highest to lowest:

Tenor, Soprano, Alto, Bass, Baritone

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Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Baritone, Bass

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What famous painting is referred to as “La Gioconda”?

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Mona Lisa

Gioconda is the Italian name for it

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In what work of classical music were movements consisting of a piano duet created for each of the planets, except for Neptune which was originally scored for an organ?

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The Planets by Gustav Holst

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What is the original name of the piano?

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fortepiano

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Who created these pieces of work?
Fancy Free (1944, ballet)
West Side Story (1957, musical)
Symphony No. 3, Kaddish (1963)

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Leonard Bernstein

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Name the composition that contains these characters which are represented by these instruments. 
Bird-Flute
Cat- Clarinets
Duck- Oboe
Grandfather- Bassoon
Hunters- timpani and bass drum
Peter- strings (including violin, viola, cello, + bass)
Wolf- french horns
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Peter and The Wolf

composed by Sergei Prokofiev in 1936, originally in Russian as Petya i volk

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What is syncopation?

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When the beat is displaced so that the strong beat becomes weak and so the weak beat becomes strong

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What instruments are included in a string quartet?

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two violins, one viola, and a cello

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What does “arco” mean when it is seen in a violin score?

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To begin playing with a bow

Used chiefly as a direction to indicate the resumption of bowing after a pizzicato passage.

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14
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What is an octatonic scale?

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a scale in which the notes ascend by alternating between whole and half steps

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What is the subdominant?

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the fourth scale degree (sub=below + the dominant is the fifth note of the scale)

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What does the word “andante” mean in music?

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at a walking pace, moderately paced

17
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What is the word for the quality of a sound that distinguishes it from another - also known as tone color?

A

timbre

18
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How many half steps are contained with in an octave?

A

12

19
Q

When seen in music, “8vb” means what?

A

The section of music is to be played an octave lower.

20
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What musical form includes three sections and a coda?

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a sonata

21
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To what musical family does the timpani belong?

A

membranophone

22
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What is the term for a short, light peice of music, which is usually written for the piano?

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bagatelle

23
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What is the term to describe a comedic opera?

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buffa (which means funny in Italian)

24
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Who sculpted “Hermes and the Infant Dionysus”?

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Praxiteles - Found in the ruins of the Temple of Hera at Olympia, Hermes and the Infant Dionysus dates back to the 4th century BC.

25
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Who wrote the Oboe Concerto in 1945?

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Richard Stauss

26
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Where was Adolphe Sax, the inventor of the saxophone, from?

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Belgium

27
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The musician-poet Amir Khusro is said to have created what instrument by splitting the pakhavaj into two?

A

Tabla

28
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What is the name of the stripes on the fingerboard of a guitar?

A

frets

29
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What instrument’s name is Latin for “horn”?

A

Tuba

30
Q

What does a luthier do?

A

Repair a violin

31
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What was the 1886 art movement founded by George Seurat that focused on landscapes called?

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Neoimpressionism

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