Loaded Questions 3/7/22 - Classical Music
Light and moderately quick, but not as fast as allegro!
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1. A great friend of Aaron Copland, what Mexican composer and founder of the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra wrote the "Sinfonia india" which was inspired by Yaqui instruments?
2. "At the Orgy of the Brigands" is a closing piece in what 1834 Hector Berlioz symphony with solo viola?
3. What Swedish ballerina (1804-1884) is considered the first ballet dancer to truly dance en pointe? This move made her seem weightless like ballets like "Les Sylphide".
4. What American jazz trumpeter wrote the score for "BlacKkKlansman", and also wrote the opera "Fire Shut up In My Bones", which in 2021 became the first opera performed at The Met by a Black composer?
5. What equine term is given to the part of a guitar's bridge that serves as a spacer for the strings?
6. "Cavalleria Rusticana" and "Pagliacci" are operas in what genre about everyday life?
7. During the 70s, the NY Philharmonic was led by what avant-garde French composer of "The Hammer without a Master"?
8. Fata Morgana curses the Prince with a citrusy desire in what 1921 opera by Sergei Prokofiev?
9. What name is given to a nonstandard tuning of a string instrument, like a violin tuning an E to an E flat? Saint-Saens's "Danse macabre" uses this technique.
10. Purchased by Suzuki in the 1980s, the electric organ often seen in churches is named for what American inventor?
11. What are the notes of the "short-short-short-long" notes in Beethoven's fifth symphony?
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1. A great friend of Aaron Copland, what Mexican composer and founder of the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra wrote the "Sinfonia india" which was inspired by Yaqui instruments? Carlos Chavez
2. "At the Orgy of the Brigands" is a closing piece in what 1834 Hector Berlioz symphony with solo viola? Harold in Italy
3. What Swedish ballerina (1804-1884) is considered the first ballet dancer to truly dance en pointe? This move made her seem weightless like ballets like "Les Sylphide". Marie Taglioni
4. What American jazz trumpeter wrote the score for "BlacKkKlansman", and also wrote the opera "Fire Shut up In My Bones", which in 2021 became the first opera performed at The Met by a Black composer? Terence Blanchard
5. What equine term is given to the part of a guitar's bridge that serves as a spacer for the strings? Saddle
6. "Cavalleria Rusticana" and "Pagliacci" are operas in what genre about everyday life? Verismo
7. During the 70s, the NY Philharmonic was led by what avant-garde French composer of "The Hammer without a Master"? Pierre Boulez
8. Fata Morgana curses the Prince with a citrusy desire in what 1921 opera by Sergei Prokofiev? The Love for Three Oranges
9. What name is given to a nonstandard tuning of a string instrument, like a violin tuning an E to an E flat? Saint-Saens's "Danse macabre" uses this technique. Scordatura
10. Purchased by Suzuki in the 1980s, the electric organ often seen in churches is named for what American inventor? Laurens Hammond
11. What are the notes of the "short-short-short-long" notes in Beethoven's fifth symphony? G - G - G - E flat