Shubertiade
A musical party held during Schubert's lifetime where many of the composer's works were first heard
Lieder
A German word referring to songs
True
True or False: Schubert contracted syphilis
True
True or False: Schubert wrote almost 1,000 musical works
False (Died at 31)
True or False: Schubert lived a long life
True
True or False: Schubert worked as a school teacher
Galloping horse
The piano part in the song Erlk�nig depicts a...
Mayrhofer
This poet was a close friend of Schubert's
Fast-Slow-Fast or Fast-Slow-Fast-Fast
The most common orderings for sonata movements
3
How many piano sonatas did Brahms compose?
Early
During which part of his career did Brahms write piano sonatas?
Beethoven
Which composer MOST influenced Brahms' piano sonatas?
A fragment of a love poem
What is printed in the score for today's sonata (Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5) at the start of the second movement?
Pennsylvania
Composer Robert Maggio lives in...
Modern
The style of Laura Schwendinger could best be described as...
South East Asia
Langkawi Mythology, by Su Lian Tan, describes a myth from...
Jazz
Ballade, by Stephen Dankner, takes it's inspiration from...
Daniel Grabois
All of these pieces (Divide, Rapture, Langkawi Mythology, Ballade) were written for...
Sergei Prokofiev
Francis Poulenc dedicated his oboe sonata in the memory of...
A Greek island
Philippakopoulos was inspired by...
Woodwind instruments
The oboe and the English horn are both...
Boston University
Theodore Antoniou was professor of composition at...
In California
Antoniou composed the Five Likes for solo oboe...
True
True or False: Brahms composed TWO clarinet sonatas
Single-reed instrument and a woodwind instrument
The clarinet is a...
Argentina
Carlos Guastavino was a native of which country?
The movement with that name goes at walking speed
The Italian term Andante tells a listener that...
True
True or False: Sonata is a term used for an instrumental piece composed for a single performer or for a small group of performers
Extended Techniques
Unusual approaches applied to playing an instrument are called...
Argentina and Uruguay
The dance known as tango originates from which country(s)?
Tar and Darabukka
The drums used in the piece Daumba� are called...
Japan
Marimbist and composer Keiko Abe is from...
Cartooning
Xylophone master George Hamilton Green retired from performance in the late 1940's to pursue a career in which field?
Ludwig van Beethoven's recently published String Quartets
Mendelssohn's Quartet, Op. 13 composed in 1827, was probably inspired by...
True
True or False: A String Quartet ensemble always consists of two violins, one viola, and one violoncello
Bows made of wood fitted with hair from horses' tails
The Violin, the Viola, and the Violoncello are usually played with...
Leo Tolstoy's novella Kreutzer Sonata
Originally from Moravia, Czech composer Leo� Jan�?ek admired Russian culture and literature including...
1) Notable for extensive dialogue among the four instruments, 2) the third of the Prussian quartets, dedicated to the King of Prussia, 3) an example of chamber music, originally intended for performance before a small audience
One of Mozart'z last compositions, the Quartet, K. 590 is...
Characteristics of the harpsichord
The strings are plucked, it is a keyboard instrument, its mechanism is the same as it was in 1400
Consists of variations on a repeating theme
The distinctive feature of any Passacaglia is that it...
True
True or False: Frescobaldi and Rossi are examples of composers of the Baroque period, while the compositions of Johan Strauss II are written in the Romantic style
Were from Vienna, Austria
Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, and Johann Strauss II
One six-tone chord
The musical content of D�rive I is based upon
Pastoral theme with variations
The Italian phrase Tema pastorale con variazioni means...
True
True or False: The final movement of Crumb's Sonata begins slowly and dramatically, then breaks into a lively, fast tempo
To re-arrange it for a different performance medium
To transcribe a musical work is...
A joke
The literal meaning of Scherzo in Italian is...
The year of composition
For the Beethoven Sonata in G, 1812 is...