Loaded Questions 7/25/22 - Classical Music
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1. The group of instruments known as a wind quintet is a flute, clarinet, oboe, and what two other instruments?
2. "Hairpins" is a nickname for what musical notations?
3. Josef Suk, who composed "Asreal Symphony" and "Serenade for Strings", was the son-in-law of what composer of the same country?
4. The Flower Duet is performed between Mallika and the title character in what 1882 opera by Leo Delibes about an Indian princess?
5. Sacred mistletoe is cut for the moon goddess in the aria "Casta Diva" during what Vincenzo Bellini opera about a druid priestess?
6. The Symphony No. 1 "Afro-American" is a 1930 composition that was the first symphony written by an African American and performed by the Rochester Philharmonic in 1931, is a work by what composer?
7. "Emerson", "Thoreau", "The Alcotts", and "Hawthorne" are the movements of what Charles Ives work representing the transcendentalist spirit, and includes themes of Beethoven's 5th?
8. Used in fugues and canons, what technique uses multiple musical voices in conjunction with each other? Notes will harmonize when you avoid fifths or octaves, and "free" and "species" are example of it.
9. What device names the orchestral piece categorized Hob. I:101?
10. What 1945 work is Benjamin Britten's most famous opera, about the title fisherman who is accused of killing his apprentices? At the end of this opera, Balstrode tells Ellen that he found the jersey of John, one of the apprentices.
11. The namesake of a set of variations by Bach, Johann Gottlieb Goldberg was a virtuoso of what instrument?
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1. The group of instruments known as a wind quintet is a flute, clarinet, oboe, and what two other instruments? French horn, bassoon
2. "Hairpins" is a nickname for what musical notations? Crescendos (< and >)
3. Josef Suk, who composed "Asreal Symphony" and "Serenade for Strings", was the son-in-law of what composer of the same country? Antonin Dvorak
4. The Flower Duet is performed between Mallika and the title character in what 1882 opera by Leo Delibes about an Indian princess? Lakme
5. Sacred mistletoe is cut for the moon goddess in the aria "Casta Diva" during what Vincenzo Bellini opera about a druid priestess? Norma
6. The Symphony No. 1 "Afro-American" is a 1930 composition that was the first symphony written by an African American and performed by the Rochester Philharmonic in 1931, is a work by what composer? William Grant Still
7. "Emerson", "Thoreau", "The Alcotts", and "Hawthorne" are the movements of what Charles Ives work representing the transcendentalist spirit, and includes themes of Beethoven's 5th? Concord Sonata
8. Used in fugues and canons, what technique uses multiple musical voices in conjunction with each other? Notes will harmonize when you avoid fifths or octaves, and "free" and "species" are example of it. Counterpoint
9. What device names the orchestral piece categorized Hob. I:101? Clock Symphony by Haydn
10. What 1945 work is Benjamin Britten's most famous opera, about the title fisherman who is accused of killing his apprentices? At the end of this opera, Balstrode tells Ellen that he found the jersey of John, one of the apprentices. Peter Grimes
11. The namesake of a set of variations by Bach, Johann Gottlieb Goldberg was a virtuoso of what instrument? Harpsichord