Music Memory Quiz #3 2023

Type of music created by African Americans in the late 19th-early 20th centuries and uses improvisation and syncopation:

This composer was well known for his compositions “Peter and the Wolf” and the ballet “Romeo and Juliet”:

What are the volume (loudness or softness) of the music:

A story told through music and dancing, performed on a stage with costumes, sets, and lighting:

This American composer was awarded the Pulitzer Prize posthumously in 1976 for his “contributions to American music”:

This composer had 20 children, only 9 of them survived, and 4 of them became composers:

This composer wrote the librettos as well as all of the music for his 13 operas:

This composer enlisted in the Army Medical Corps during WWII and became deaf due to the sound of large gunfire:

This composer earned his living as a conductor and composed part-time during the summer in country “composing huts”.

This composer played violin with the American Symphony Orchestra and has made a living as a composer:

This Russian composer died in Moscow on the same day as Stalin, the Premier of the Soviet Union:

These two German composers were born in the same year less than 100 miles apart, both went blind, but they never met:

A comic opera written for and about ordinary people with common problems, and must be able to sing patter (fast singing)

This composer played the trumpet and sang, as well as he was the voice of King Louie in Disney’s “The Jungle Book”:

This moody, disorganized composer played the violin, viola, organ, and was a virtuoso pianist:

What are the three parts of the Sonata form:

A brass instrument made from about 17 feet of coiled metal tubing, and it uses valves and valve keys:

17-18th Century orchestra piece used as an introduction, interlude, or postlude to an opera, oratorio, cantata, or suite

This composition is the first song cycle ever written for singer and orchestra:

This Austrian classical composer was a child prodigy who played violin, viola, harpsichord, clavier, piano and organ:

King Ludwig of Bavaria was so fond of this composer and his music that he built the castle Neuschwanstein in his honor.

This Armenian composer wrote ballets, songs, 3 symphonies, chamber music, 25 film scores, and was a “national treasure”.

This composer was the most famous member of “Les Six” the group of 20th Century French composers:

A group of songs with a common theme or that tell a story, designed to be performed in sequence without a break:

This German composed for the English court and was buried in Westminster Abbey:

These German composers make up the famous “Three B’s”.

The third movement in a symphony, in ¾ time, usually quick and light-hearted, Italian for “joke”:

This Italian composer played the harpsichord, piano, cello, French Horn, and wrote 32 operas until he retired at age 37.

This composer wrote over 500 concertos and taught music at the Pietá girls orphanage:

Repeating music technique with alterations to the melody, harmony, rhythm, meter, dynamics, tempo, timbre, or texture: