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The Stone Breakers
Gustave Courbet
symphony based on its composer’s vacation to Spillville, Iowa
New World Symphony
New World Symphony
Antonín Dvořák
Toccata and Fugue in D minor
J S Bach
24 preludes and fugues
Well-Tempered Clavier
Golden Temple is in this city
Amritsar
Voodoo spirits such as Papa Legba
Ioa
Lyric Pieces
Edvard Grieg
collection written for the 200th birthday of a Norwegian-born playwright.
Holberg Suite (Edvard Grieg)
painting that depicts multiple images of the Venus de Milo in addition to a bullfighter
The Hallucinogenic Toreador (Dali)
Wife of Salvador Dali
Gala Dali
sect of Mahayana Buddhism is based on tantras
Esoteric
1883 eruption created the loudest noise in recorded history
Krakatoa
aria in which the Queen of the Night tries to persuade Pamina to kill her rival Sarastro.
Der Holle Rache`
Doctor Atomic
John Coolidge Adams
opera set in South Carolina
Porgy and Bess (Gershwin)
Rhapsody in Blue
George Gershwin
Biblically-inspired song in Porgy and Bess
It aint necessarily so
people who sculpted the Chimera of Arezzo
Etruscans
metal used for most of Auguste Rodin’s sculptures
Bronze
Concerto for Lute and Plucked Strings
Vivaldi
continuously crescendoing work that begins with a snare ostinato and a flute playing the main theme
Bolero
Russian ballerina who commissioned Bolero
Rubinstein
five-movement suite written to celebrate the signing of the 1748 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
Music for the Royal Fireworks
who wrote the coronation anthem Zadok the Priest
Handel
capital at Basseterre, smallest carribean country
Saint Kitts and Nevis
21 nocturnes and the Revolutionary Étude
Chopin
The sight of a small dog chasing its tail supposedly inspired this famous Chopin piece
Minute Waltz
Nessun dorma
Puccini
Lauretta threatens to throw herself into the Arno if her father does not approve of her marriage to Rinuccio
O mio babbino caro (Puccini)
24 Caprices
Paganini
Pesaro Madonna
Titian
title figure wears a bracelet on her right arm, and her right hand holds a bunch of flowers
Venus of Urbino (Titian)
If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.
Koans
Zen is said to have been originated from this sermon Siddhartha Gautama gave to his disciples
Flower sermon
Orchestras tune to this instrument
Oboe
Oboe Sonata in D Major
Camille Saint-Saens
book containing hymns mostly dedicated to Agni and Indra
Rig Veda
group of French composers
Les six
Group of Russian composers
The five
Desiccated Embryos
Satie
contemporary art museum in Washington, D.C., that contains works by Jeff Koons in its sculpture garden
Hirshhorn museum
Suite containing morning mood
Peer Gynt (Grieg)
work inspired by a speech by Vice President Henry A. Wallace
Fanfare for the common man (Copland)
The Night Cafe
Van Gogh
L’Absinthe
Degas
Diego De Landa led an inquisition against this civilization during the 1560s
Mayans
Closing lines in Antony and Cleopatra delivered by this man
Octavius Caesar
Alexandria Quartet
Lawrence Durrell
Protagonist of this play dances the Tarantella
A Doll’s House (Ibsen)
Lowest female voice type
Contralto
Anvil Chorus
Troubador (Verdi)
Sonata for this instrument begins with arpeggiated C sharp minor chords
Piano
First horse to win an undefeated triple crown
Seattle Slew
Character that becomes an assistant to yacht owner Dan Cody
Jay Gatsby
Worlds largest lake
Caspian sea
Capital of Azerbaijan
Baku
25th amendment allows position to be filled
Vice President
First published poet in the American colonies
Anne Bradstreet
Title of Anne Bradstreet’s only poetry collection
The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America
Two members of this family wrote Sisters First
Bush
5th Mughal emperor
Shah Jahan
Shah Jahan built this mausoleum
Taj Mahal
Taj Mahal is in this city
Agra
Operation Euphrates Shield
Turkey
Oceans of Wisdom
Hokusai
Active Imagination
Carl Jung
Major export of Newcastle
Coal
York River
Virginia
Second capital of Virginia
Williamsburg
Native American chief’s confederacy
Powhatan’s confederacy
Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Central
Diego Rivera
Battle of Germantown (revolutionary war)
Philadelphia
Cells that transmit signals across a synapse
Neurons
Lobe that contains the primary auditory cortex
Temporal lobe
Area of the brain that controls language comprehension
Vernicke’s area
Good Country People
O Conner
Country that expelled almost all Asians in 1972
Uganda
Twin brother of Artermis
Appolo
Mother of apollo
Leto
Leto labored for 9 days and nights on this island
Delos
6th of October bridge crosses Gezira Island
Cairo
Leader of the free french
Charles De Gaulle
Leader of Vichy french
Petain
This opera’s title character sings “En vain pour eviter”
Carmen
Mack the knife
Kurt Weill
jazz transformation of Mack the Knife
Louis Armstrong
Songs and Dances of Death
Mussorgsky
Vote McGovern
Andy Warhol
This dance was originally created by German peasants in the 13th century
Waltz
chiaroscuro style
Woodcutting
Seagram Murals
Mark Rothko
Mephisto Waltzes
Lizst
The Three Graces
Raphael
created the works Become Water and Inuksut to describe the nature of Alaska
John Coolidge Adams
A priest’s face nearly fills a church doorway in this work
I and the Village (Chagall)
Mozart’s final concerto was written for this instrument
Clarinet
Excavations at a site attributed to this civilization found a painting depicting bull leaping
Minoan
Self-Portrait with a Dog
Gustave Courbet
Who Composed Bethena
Scott Joplin
one of this man’s plays sees Jerry walk into a knife after arguing over the possession of a Central Park bench
Edward Albee
In a Jean-Leon Gerome painting, a sculptor performs this action to an ivory statue
Kissing
On the right, a figure sometimes identified as Pomona stands in front of an orange grove
The birth of Venus (Botticelli)
Hector Berlioz wrote a ninety-minute long work of this type for 100 strings
Requiem
A solo flute in G Major opens the finale of this composer’s Symphony No. 5
Felix Mendelsson
the Canzionere, or Songbook, which contains many poems dedicated to Laura
Petrarch
The subject of this painting wears a crescent tiara
Madame X (John Singer Sargent
Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc have paintings titled [this color]
Blue
Two figures walk along a bridge on the left of this painting
The Scream (Munch)
this performer sang “Precious Lord, Take My Hand,” at MLK’s funeral
Aretha Franklin
The tallest mountain in this place is Victoria Peak
Hong Kong
This composition’s title refers to a collection of over one thousand songs and poems from medieval times that were found in Bavaria
Carmina Burana (Carl Orff)
“In Spring,” “In the Tavern,” and “Court of Love” are three sections of this piece
Carmina Burana (Carl Orff)
This piece was originally intended as the second movement of another piece, but the composer decided to make it into a stand alone work after it received a standing ovation at the premier
Adagio for strings
One of these musical pieces has two versions of its first movement cadenza
Piano Concerto
Pore Jud is Daid
Oklahoma
The sixth movement of this piece features a four note “spell” motif and staccato bassoons
The Planets (Holst)
The Thames, Westminster Bridge is one of close to 30 paintings of the Thames River by one founder of this art movement
Fauvism
Stars described by this adjective are white dwarfs that no longer emit significant light or heat due to cooling
Black
This era was divided into three phases, and it received its name from Portuguese word
Baroque
24 Caprices made for this instrument
Violin
“Black Mass” sonata
Alexander Scriabin
The Painter Surprised by a Naked Admirer
Lucien Freud
the Screaming Pope series
Francis Bacon
Rouen Cathedral series
Claude Monet
Founder of impressionism
Claude Monet
One of these objects made of Cor-Ten steel sits in the Rothko Chapel
Obelisk
Rothko Chapel
Houston, Texas
Its architect intended for visitors to ride to the top of the museum and descend down a single incline while viewing its artworks
Gugenheim museum
the training of living trees and shrubs into artificial, decorative shapes
Topiary
March 3rd holiday in Japan
Doll’s day
disappeared while traveling to entertain American troops in France in 1944
Glenn Miller
Hans von Bülow was the first to play all 32 of Beethoven’s works of this form in a single concert cycle
Piano Sonata
Who painted The Nightmare
Henry Fuseli
What country had the Years of Lead
Italy
What ballet follows 2 newlyweds
Appalachin Spring (Copland)
What work contains the sections “The Market at Limoges,” “The Hut on Hen’s Legs,” and “The Old Castle,”
Pictures at an exhibition (Mussorgsky)
Who made Peter and the Wolf
Sergei Prokofiev
What jazz artist released albums subtitled The Birthday Concert and Mack the Knife
Ella Fitzgareld
Who choreographed many of Tchaikovsky’s works
Marius Petipa
Who made Ride of the Valkyries
Richard Wagner
What opera is played annually at the Bayreuth festival
Das Rhinegold (Wagner)
Who wrote the Chorale Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring.
JS Bach
Franz Liszt wrote six etudes for piano based on works by this composer
Paganini
Five topless girls and five naked boys taunt each other in this artist’s Young Spartans Exercising
Degas
This artist painted a series of pastels depicting women bathing in tubs
Degas
Emmanuel Chabrier wrote an orchestral piece of this type named for España
Rhapsody
Works numbered from 136 to 146 in the Searle catalogue are these kinds of pieces
Etude
This composer developed a secret method for playing third harmonics in pieces such as his variations on the aria “Di tanti palpiti.
Paganini
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Rachmaninov
typically used to train musicians
Etude
Used a ricochet playing style
Paganini
