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1
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Who wrote Sumer is Icmen?

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Anon

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2
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Define CHIPTUNE in video game msic

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Sound chips or short music segments that repeat over and over as background to the early video game music

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3
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Beethoven only opera?

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Fidelio

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4
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Woodwind instruments got their name because?

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Originally made of wood

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5
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Highest woodwind instrument in the orchestra?

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Piccolo

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6
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Video game performers?

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Shimomura, Zimmer, soule *

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7
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Double reed instruments

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Oboe, English horn, bassoon

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8
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What instrument not commonly used by modern composer?

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Crumhorn

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9
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What is classified as a so-called sad chord?

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Minor

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10
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Composition almost always ends in?

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Tonic chord

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11
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Medieval music consisting of Gregorian chant and one or more melodic line

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Organum

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12
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Video game composer that writes for both video games and movies

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Hans Zimmer

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13
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Ternary form is characterized by what lettering group?

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ABA

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14
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What were church modes?

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Basic scale of western music during Middle Ages

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15
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Who was responsible for reinstating Bach to the forefront of classical music after it had been forgot after his death (1750)?

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Felix Mendelssohn

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16
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What was Haydn considered from his contract of employment?

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Skilled servant

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17
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Baroque term oratorio

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Based on bible events and a story is told performing with a voice and orchestra. There is no set or costumes.MAIN REASON IT IS AN ORATORIO NOT AN OPERA

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18
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What voice category can sing very high and execute rapid scales and trills?

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Coloratura soprano

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19
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Two giants of Baroque composition?

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George Handel and J.S. Bach

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20
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Main keyboard instruments of baroque period

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Organ and harpsichord

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21
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The use that gives Barogue music its most characteristic feature?

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Basso continuo

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22
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Beethoven musical heir of Haydn and Mozart, bridged what periods?

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Classical and romantic

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23
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Most famous women video game composer?

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Yoko Shimomura

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24
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Texture of Gregorian chant?

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Monophonic

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25
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The first movement of classical period symphony is often in what form?

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Sonata allegro

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26
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Performing choral music without instrumental accompaniment

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Cappella

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27
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What are the first and third sections of sonata form?

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Exposition and recapitulation *

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28
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What instrument is played in the recapitulation of Beethoven symphony #5 1st movement

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Oboe

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29
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Songs Mozart wrote

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Don Giovanni, The magic flute, the marriage of Figaro

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30
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Singer with low range taking authoritarian roles

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Basso profundo

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31
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Composer of opera Oreo

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Claudio Monterverdi

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32
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A vocal line that imitates the rhythms and pitch fluctuation of speech

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Recitative

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33
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Bach was respected/recognized as what of his day

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Organist

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34
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What Baroque form did back not create a masterpiece in?

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Opera

35
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Chorale

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A Lutheran congregational hymn tune

36
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In use of aria, duet and recitative, Bach cantatas closely resembled

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Operas

37
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Oratorio

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Large scale composition for chorus, vocal,soloists and orchestra, usually set to narrative biblical text

38
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Messiah by Handel is an example of what type of music

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Oratorio

39
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How many notes in a pentatonic scale?

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5

40
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Masters of classical period

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Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven

41
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Characteristics of classical period

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Classical composition has wealth of rhythmic patterns, fluctuate in mood, melodies are tuneful and easy to remember.

42
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Father of symphony

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Haydn

43
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First 4 note of Beethoven’s 5th symphony signified

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Morse code for V for victory

44
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Typical orchestra of classical period consisted of

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Strings, pairs of woodwinds, horns, trumpets, and timpani

45
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Sonata form

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Frequently used as the form for the first movement of multi-movement work

46
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Haydn two important types of compositions

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String quartets

47
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Sonata-form movement often followed by concluding section known as

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Coda

48
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Bridge

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Traditional passage that smoothly connects one section to another

49
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A rondo is a musical form described as having

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A reoccurring theme

50
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Basso continuo

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A Bass part together with numbers (figures) specifying the chords to be played above it, characteristic of the baroque

51
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The character of the minuet is best describe as

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Brisk and lively

52
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Operas composed by Mozart

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Don Giovanni, cosi fan tutte, marriage of figaro

53
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Trouser role in opera

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A girl in guys clothing that could sing high notes that males could not

54
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Program music

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Instrumental music associated with a story poem, idea or scene popular during romantic period

55
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Berlioz’s Fantastic Symphony is unified by the recurrence of an idée fixe known as?

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The beloved

56
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Compose that did not specifically write for movies

A

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

57
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Through composed

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Form when Composer writes new music for each stanza of a poem

58
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Who composed winterreise?

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Franz Schubert

59
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Chopin expressed His love of native Poland by composing what?

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Polonaises and muzurkas

60
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Strophic form

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When music is repeated for each stanza of a poem

61
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Rubato

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Slight holding back or pressing forward of tempo in music

62
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Nationalism

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Deliberate intent to draw creative inspiration from the composers own homeland

63
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Bedrich smetana composed a symphonic poem depicting Bohemia’s main river. What is the name of the river (and the composition)

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The Moldau

64
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Art song is a musical composition composed for what combination of performers?

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Voice and piano

65
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Clara Schumann

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Did some composing but considered herself primary a performer

66
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Etudes

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A study piece designed to help performs master chain technical difficulties

67
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Who wrote the music for Star Wars?

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John Williams

68
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Symphonic poem

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One movement orchestral composition based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea

69
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The liturgical melody quoted in the last movement of the Fantastic Symphony

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DIES IRAE

70
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4th movement of the Fantastic Symphony depicts

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March of the scaffold

71
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Who wrote the librettos to Richard Wagner’s the Ring of the Nibelung

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Richard Wagner

72
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Why does Wagner call his works music dramas instead of operas?

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Continuous musical flow within each act, no breaks where applause can interrupt, the vocal line is inspired by the rhythms and pitches of German text

73
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Wagner spins orchestral web out of recurrent musical themes called

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Leit motifs

74
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What form did Johannesburg brahms not write?

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Opera

75
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Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet is an?

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Overturn-fantasy

76
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Valhalla in Richards Wagner’s opera Die Walkure is

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The castle of the gods

77
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Richard Wagner had an opera house with his own design. Where was this built?

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Bayreuth Bavaria

78
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Brahms works through personal style arerrooted in music of

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Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven

79
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Erich Korngold wrote what kinda music?

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Movies music, operas, ballets, and chamber

80
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What were Franz Schubert gatherings called?

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Schubertiads

81
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Who was Clara and Robert Schumann close with?

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Johannesburg Brahms

82
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How long are Schubert’s song numbers

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600

83
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Composer that wrote German Requiem and dedicated it to his mother and Robert Schumann

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Johannes Brahms

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