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PBHS Classical Music
PBHS Music
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Symphony No. 5 | Beethoven (Ludwig Von) |
| 1812 Overture | Tchaikovsky |
| Eine Kleine Nachtmusik | Mozart (Wolfgang Amadeus) |
| Toccata and Fugue in D Minor | Bach (Johann Sebastian) (Baroque) |
| William Tell | Rossini |
| Canon in D | Pachelbel |
| Blue Danube Walz | J. Strauss (Johann) |
| Carmina Burana: O Fortuna | Orff (Carl) |
| Also Sprach Zarathustra | R. Strauss (Richard) |
| Orpheus in the Underworld: Infernal Galop | Offenbach |
| Messiah | Handel (George Frideric) |
| Carmen | Bizet |
| Gayane: Sabre Dance | Khachaturian |
| Symphony No. 9 in D Minor | Beethoven |
| Pomp and Circumstance (March No.1) | Elgar |
| Peer Gynt Suite | Grieg (Edvard--Norwegian) |
| La Gioconda: Dance of the Hours | Ponchielli |
| Hungarian Rhapsodies | Liszt (Franz--Hungarian) |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | Mendelssohn (Felix) |
| Tale of Tsar Saltan: The Flight of the Bumblebee | Rimsky-Korsakov |
| Rhapsody in Blue | Gershwin (George) |
| Moonlight Sonata | Beethoven |
| Bolero | Ravel (Maurice) |
| The Nutcracker | Tchaikovsky |
| Imperial March | John Williams |
| The Magic Flute | Mozart |
| Fur Elise (Bagatelle in A Minor--piano solo) | Beethoven |
| Lakme'- Flower Duet | Delibes |
| Rodeo | Copland (Aaron) |
| Die Walkure: Ride of the Valkyries | Wagner |
| Cantata 147: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring | Bach |
| Funeral March | Chopin |
| Pictures At An Exhibition | Mussorgsky (Modest) |
| Marriage of Figaro | Mozart |
| Stars and Stripes Forever | Sousa (John Philip) |
| Lohengrin: Bridal Chorus | Wagner |
| The Four Seasons | Vivaldi |
| Minuet in G | Beethoven |
| Air on the G String | Bach |
| The Barber of Seville | Rossini |
| Lullaby | Brahms |
| Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini | Rachmaninov |
| Fanfare For The Common Man | Copland |
| Thieving Magpie Overture | Rossini |
| Brandenburg Concertos | J.S. Bach |
| Peter and the Wolf | Prokofiev |
| Romeo and Juliet (symphony) | Tchaikovsky |
| Rigoletto | Verdi |
| Carnival of the Animals | Saint-Saens (Camille) |
| Clair De Lune | Debussy |
| Sleeping Beauty (ballet) | Tchaikovsky |
| Washington Post March | Sousa |
| Colonel Bogey March | Ricketts |
| Il Trovatore (The troubador) | Verdi |
| Tritsch-Tratsch Polka | Strauss (Johann) |
| Water Music | Handel |
| Turandot | Puccini |
| Boris Godunov | Mussorgsky |
| LaBoheme | Puccini |
| Madame Butterfly | Puccini |
| La Traviata | Verdi |
| Aida | Verdi |
| Swan Lake (Ballet) | Tchaikovsky |
| Radetzky March | Strauss (Johann Sr.) |
| Finlandia | Sibelius (Finnish) |
| Unfinished Symphony | Schubert |
| Surprise Symphony | Haydn |
| The Art of Fugue (Monothematic Cycle) | Bach |
| The Well-tempered Clavier | Bach |
| Enigma Variations | Elgar |
| Peter Grimes | Britten |
| West Side Story | Bernstein (Leonard) |
| Lucia di Lammermoor | Donizetti |
| Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun | Claude DeBussy |
| Bugler's Dream | Arnaud |
| Night On Bald Mountain | Mussorgsky |
| Entry Of The Gladiators | Fucik |
| Palladio | Jenkins |
| Rondo Alla Turca | Mozart |
| The Mikado | Gilbert and Sullivan |
| The Threepenny Opera | Kurt Weill (Vial) |
| The Anvil Chorus | from Il Trovatore by Verdi "The troubadore"--Depicts Spanish Gypsies striking their anvils at dawn |
| The "London Symphonies" | Haydn |
| Father of the Symphony and Father of the String Quartet | Haydn |
| Eugene Onegin (Opera) | Tchaikovsky |
| Pathetique Symphony (His last) | Tchaikovsky |
| "Scenes from Childhood" AND "Rhenish" Symphony | Robert Schumann (wife, Clara) German Romantic composer |
| Danced to Hava Nagila at mitzvahs, weddings, etc. | the Horah |
| Der Rosenkavelier (The Knight of the Rose) | Richard Strauss |
| Also Sprach Zarathustra (Used in Stanley Kubrik's 2001: A Space Odyssey) | Richard Strauss |
| 2nd Largest in the String Family | Cello |
| The Pirates of Penzance | Gilbert and Sullivan |
| Mimi (seamstress) dies of tuberculosis | La Boheme |
| Broadway musical with song: Springtime for Hitler | The Producers |
| In this opera, Count Almaviva tries to make Rosina fall in love with him posing as Lindoro | The Barber of Seville |
| The "barber" (Figaro) admits his love for "the Countess" Susanna | The Marriage of Figaro |
| Clock Symphony | Haydn |
| Miracle Symphony | Haydn |
| "God Bless America" (song) | Irving Berlin |
| folk songs--"Oh,Susanna" "Camptown Races" "Swanee River" "Old Folks at Home" | Stephen Foster |
| Surprise Symphony | Haydn |
| "Battle Hymn of the Republic" | Howe |
| Drumroll Symphony | Haydn |
| Symphony #41--The Jupiter Symphony | Mozart |
| The Phantom of the Opera (Musical) | Andrew Lloyd Weber |
| My Fair Lady (Musical) | Lerner and Loewe |
| Evita | Andrew Lloyd Weber |
| The Sound of Music | Rodgers and Hammerstein |
| Cats | Andrew Lloyd Weber Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S.Eliot |
| Oklahoma | Rodgers and Hammerstein |
| "My Old Kentucky Home" | Stephen Foster Opening ceremony--Kentucky Derby (Churchill Downs)in Louisville, KY |
| Tosca | Puccini |
| Most famous cellist of the 19th Century, Spanish cellist _______. Currently the most famous is ______ who won this medal. | Pablo Casals--Spanish Yo-Yo Ma (American but born in France--won Presidential Medal of Freedom) |
| The Happy Farmer (song) | Schumann, Robert |
| Arabesque | Debussy, Claude |
| Sheherazade | Rimsky-Korsakov |
| (Military) Polonais | Chopin |
| Holberg Suite | Grieg |
| Minute Walz | Chopin |
| Ave Maria | Schubert, Franz |
| Revolutionary Etude | Chopin |
| Slavonic Dances | Dvorak |
| Which Beethoven Symphony is the Choral Symphony? | 9th |
| Which Beethoven symphony is the Eroica Symphony? | 3rd (Napoleon story) |
| Which Beethoven symphony is the Pastoral Symphony? | 6th |
| Appalachian Spring | Copland |
| The Planets | Holst |
| Porgy and Bess | George Gershwin |
| Symphony of a Thousand | Gustav Mahler |
| A German Requiem | Brahms |
| The Flying Dutchman | Wagner |
| Amahl and the Night Visitors | Gian-Carlo Menotti |
| South Pacific | Rodgers and Hammerstein |
| Into the Woods | Sondheim |
| Duke Bluebeard's Castle | Bartok |
| The Bartered Bride | Smetena |
| Sweeney Todd | Sondheim |
| Don Quixote became the what musical? | Man of La Mancha |
| Symphony Fantastique | Hector Berlioz |
| Billy Budd | Benjamin Britten |
| The Turn of the Screw | Britten |
| The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra | Britten |
| Paul Bunyan | Britten |
| Man of La Mancha's squire? | Sancho Panza |
| Symphony from the New World; New World Symphony | Dvorak |
| (The) Rite of Spring | Igor Stravinsky |
| (The) Firebird (Suite) | Stravinsky |
| Petrushka | Stravinsky |
| This piece by Stravinsky started a riot because of the Pagan worship depicted | (The) Rite of Spring |
| Tales of Hoffmann | Offenbach |
| In the Hall of the Mountain King is a segment of | Peer Gynt Suite by Grieg |
| Maple Leaf Rag and The Entertainer | Scott Joplin (Ragtime) |
| "Easter Parade" and "White Christmas" | Irving Berlin also the musical "Annie Get Your Gun" |
| Ethiopian princess captured and taken into slavery in Egypt | Aida |
| Cio-Cio San,a Japanese geisha, marries Naval Officer Pinkerton in Nagasaki. Their son "Trouble" is given to Pinkerton and Kate. | Madame Butterfly |
| Salome is an opera by | Richard Strauss |
| King Herod gives head of Jokanaan to her. She is killed by Herod's soldiers, crushed by shields. | Salome |
| Term for the text of an opera. | Libretto |
| Gangs, the Jets (white gang) taunt Sharks (Puerto Rican gang)(Romeo and Juliet--Tony and Maria) | West Side Story |
| Elektra (opera) | Richard Strauss |
| Agamemnon(King of Mycenae) murdered by Klytomnestra. Daughter of Agamemnon vows vengeance. | Elektra by Richard Strauss |
| Opera House in Milan where many famous operas debuted | La Scala |
| Song of the Earth | Gustav Mahler |
| Each musician snuffs out his candle and leaves at the end of the ____ Symphony by Joseph _____. | Farewell Symphony by Haydn |
| An American in Paris | Gershwin |
| Father of the Blues | W.C. Handy |
| St. Louis Blues | Handy |
| Memphis Blues | Handy |
| The Creation (an oratorio) | Haydn |
| Work based on Genesis and Paradise Lost by Joseph Haydn | The Creation |
| Tafelmusik | Telemann |
| A collection of music to accompany meals by Telemann | Tafelmusik |
| A Swiss patriot tries to free his country from Austrian occupation | William Tell (Rossini) |
| A disfigured man, Erik, falls in love with Christine a French opera singer. He calls her the Angel of Music sent by her father. Chandelier crash! | Phantom of the Opera (Webber) |
| Children of a woodcutter with an abusive wife leaves them in forest to be captured by Witch who intends to consume them! | Hansel and Gretel by Englebert Humperdinck |
| Cosi fan tutte | Mozart opera |
| Tristan and Isolde | Wagner opera |
| Story of Eva Peron wife of Juan Peron, who was president of Argentina | Evita by Webber |
| Near the Forbidden City,edict that any prince wishing to marry the cold Princess ____ must answer three riddles. Death if he fails.Prince Calaf passes but cold _______ refuses(opera unfinished at Puccini's death) | Turandot by Puccini |
| St. Matthew Passion | Bach |
| Little Organ (Book) | Bach |
| Ode to Joy is within which of Beethoven's symphonies? | Ninth (choral) |
| songs--Alexander's Ragtime Band; Puttin' on the Ritz | Irving Berlin |
| Kaddish (Symphony no. 3 | Bernstein |
| Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor then Boston Pops Orchestra 1930-1979. Awarded Medal of Freedom | Arthur Fiedler |
| songs-Give My Regards to Broadway; Yankee Doodle Dandy; Over There; You're A Grand Old Flag | George M. Cohan given Congressional Medal of Honor |
| Don Giovanni | Mozart opera |
| Symphony No. 9 "Great" | Schubert |
| Musical based on the true story of the singing Von Trapp family escaping Nazi take over of Austria by climbing the Alps into Switzerland | The Sound of Music |
| This evil womanizer is given one last chance to repent by the ghost of the man he killed,Commendatore. Because he doesn't care he is sucked into hell by evil spirits. | Don Giovanni |
| Set in Japan, Nanki-Poo, the son, leaves to escape a bad marriage with Katisha and meets beautiful Yum-Yum he wants to marry. | The Mikado (or) The Town of Titipu; Nanki-Poo's father is the Mikado Gilbert and Sullivan |
| Inventor of the 12-tone technique | Schoenberg |
| 12-tone technique also called | dodecaphony |
| Curly, Laurie, Aunt Eller, Jud, and Ado Annie | Oklahoma |
| Frederic meets Mabel, daughter of Major-General Stanley. Frederic must apprentice as a pirate until his 21st birthday, but he was born in a leap year...63 years to go | The Pirates of Penzance |
| Love of American nurse at a naval base in WWII with plantation owner with mixed-race children and a U.S. Lieutenant in love with an Asian woman. Story about racial prejudice. | South Pacific |
| "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair" "Some Enchanted Evening" "You've Got to be Carefully Taught" | South Pacific by Rodgers and Hammerstein |
| The King and I | Rodgers and Hammerstein |
| Mrs. Anna comes with her son to Bangkok to teach the King of Siam's children | The King and I |
| The Music Man | Meredith Wilson |
| Tannhauser | Wagner |
| Falstaff | Verdi |
| Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat | Webber |
| Jesus Christ Superstar | Webber |
| Wagner's cycle of 4 epic operas | The Ring of the Nibelung |
| The Ring of the Nibelung operas | The Rhine Gold, The Valkyrie, Siegfried, Twilight of the Gods |
| Comic opera based on "The Merry Wives of Windsor" and "Henry IV" about a fat, old knight seeking ways to steal money; Alice Ford; Nanetta | Falstaff |
| A disabled black beggar in Catfish Row attempts to rescue Bess from violent Crown and the drug-dealer Sportin' Life | Porgy and Bess by Gershwin (George) |
| "Summertime" "I Got Plenty 'O Nuttin" "It Ain't Necessarily So" | Porgy and Bess |
| "Lord, what fools these mortals be!" | said by Puck who put a love potion on the eyelids of the wrong man in A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| Marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus and Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta | A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mendelssohn for Shakespeare's play; a new adaptation/translation by Schoenberg) |
| Nick Bottom given a donkey's head by Puck. Puck (Robin Goodfellow) Lysander, Hermia, Helena, and Demetrius | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| Goldberg Variations | Bach |
| St. Matthew Passion | Bach |
| Candide (comic opera) | Bernstein |
| On The Town (musical) | Bernstein |
| In the Steppes of Central Asia (symphonic poem) Also composed the opera, Prince Igor | Borodin |
| The Rape of Lucretia | Lord Benjamin Britten |
| "Over There" | George Michael Cohan |
| "You're A Grand Old Flag" | Cohan |
| H.M.S. Pinafore | Gilbert and Sullivan |
| The captain's daughter, Josephine, supposed to marry Sir Joseph Porter, the First Lord of the Admiralty. She is in love with sailor, Ralph Rackstraw. | H.M.S. Pinafore (The Lass That Loved A Sailor) |
| Prince Tamino in pursuit of the pure Pamina. Bird-man, Papageno with magic bells. Sarastro (light) triumphs over Queen of the Night and Monastos (dark) | The Magic Flute |
| Prince Tamino has a ________ and Pagageno has ________. | Magic flute; magic bells |
| Don Alfonso bets Ferrando and Guglielmo that their sweethearts Dorabella and Fiordiligi are "all women are like that," fickle. | Cosi fan tutte by Mozart |
| Disabled boy and mother go with 3 splendid Magi to give gifts to a child.King Melchior gives back stolen gold to mother,boy gives Holy child his crutch,boy's leg healed! | Amahl and the Night Visitors by Menotti |
| Requiem | Mozart |
| Les Miserables (musical) | Scheonberg |
| Major-General's song | Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan |
| H.M.S. Pinafore subtitle or alternate title | The Lass That Loved A Sailor |
| Don Alfonso | Cossi Fan Tutte |
| Der Rosenkavelier means | The Knight of the Rose by Richard Stauss |
| Verdi's only comic opera | Falstaff |
| Verdi's last opera | Falstaff |
| habanera is a song in | Carmen (Bizet) |
| Amahl and the Night Visitors | Menotti |
| Romeo and Juliet (ballet) | Prokofiev |
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