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- What comedic pianist made No. 1 on the
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- Danish Nazi party's liquidation list?Victor Borge
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- How many notes can a modern violin bow
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- sustain simultaneously?Two
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- What's defined as the scholarly study of
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- music?Musicology
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- What country superstar's real first name was
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- Hiram?Hank Williams'
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- What Gershwin effort includes Paris taxi
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- horns?"An American in Paris"
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- What kind of band is usually made up of a
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- banjo, bass, fiddle, guitar and mandolin?A bluegrass band
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- What are the four instrument sections of a
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- symphony orchestra?Brass, percussion, strings, woodwind
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- Who named two of his children Ahmet Rodan
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- and Diva?Frank Zappa
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- What style is called for in music marked
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- "'alla marcia'"?Marching style
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- What's a "banjolele" a cross between?A banjo and ukelele
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- What do drummers play the high hat cymbals
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- with?A foot-pedal
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- What kind of piano usually measures between
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- five-feet-six and five-feet-ten in length?A baby grand
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- What force of nature sounds the strings of
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- an Aeolian harp?Wind
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- What brass instrument is sometimes referred
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- to as a "sludge pump"?The trombone
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- What did jazz artists of the '30s refer to
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- as a "black stick"?A clarinet
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- Whose fluttery heart does Lieutenant
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- Pinkerton break, in an opera?Madame Butterfly's
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- Whose 23rd piano concerto was culture buff
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- Joseph Stalin listening to the night he died?Wolfgang Mozart's
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- Whose father was lutenist and composer
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- Vincenzo Galilei?Galileo Galilei's
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- Are single notes struck on the inside or the
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- outside of a triangle?The outside
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- Who wrote the opera "Aida"?Giuseppe Verdi
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- What Italian city is home to La Scala?Milan
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- What instrument's diatonic scale requires
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- its player to blow and suck in turn?The harmonica's
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- What Debussy piano piece has been dubbed
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- "Clear the Saloon"?"Clair de Lune"
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- What term denotes the opposite of
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- "crescendo"?Decrescendo
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- What's the tempo "'adagio molto assai'" -
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- the fastest or the slowest?The slowest
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- What country great was born Wynette Pugh?Tammy Wynette
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- Did ancient Greeks use picks to pluck their
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- lyres?Yes
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- What job did conductor Sir Adrian Bolt say
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- "could be learned in an evening"?Conducting
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- What singing style consists of alternating
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- natural and falsetto voices?Yodeling
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- Who was Franz Joseph Haydn's most talented
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- counterpoint student in 1793?Ludwig van Beethoven
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- What Afro-American music did producer Leslie
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- Kong help pioneer?Reggae
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- What does a musician keep in his or her
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- "fake book"?Songs
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- What instrument did Warren Beatty play
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- professionally?The piano
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- What are Swiss alpine horn players calling
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- when they play a "'ranz des vaches'"?Cows
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- What are Bach's "Six Concerti Grossi, BWV
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- 1046-51" better known as?The "Brandenburg Concertos"
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- How many thumb holes does a French flageolet
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- feature?Two
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- Who does the bassoon represent in "Peter and
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- the Wolf" - Peter, the wolf or Grandpa?Grandpa
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- What's the term for a combination of three
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- or more notes sounded at once?Chord
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- What Shakespeare work inspired Felix
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- Mendelssohn's "Wedding March"?"A Midsummer Night's Dream"
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- What serenader does Rosina fall for in "The
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- Barber of Seville"?Figaro
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- What musical period followed the classical?The romantic period
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- What's Leo Fender's great and proud claim to
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- fame?The Fender electric guitar
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- What color were the usually black keys on
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- Wolfgang Mozart's concert piano?White
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- What's the common term for a song of praise?Hymn
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- What remote state was Bette Midler raised
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- in?Hawaii
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- How many anvils does the score for
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- "Rhinegold" require - one, nine or 18?Eighteen
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- What kind of instrument is nicknamed a
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- "Strad"?A Stradivarius violin
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- What are the four main members of the
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- saxophone family?The alto, baritone, soprano, tenor
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- What retired American diva became director
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- of the New York City Opera?Beverly Sills
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- What feisty pops conductor was named
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- honorary fire chief in more than 200 cities?Arthur Fiedler
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- What Japanese conductor have the Boston and
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- Toronto symphony orchestras had in common?Seiji Ozawa
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- Which shoulder are the drones of a highland
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- bagpipe usually tossed over?The left
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- What battle does Beethoven offer his musical
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- impressions of in "Wellington's Victory"?The Battle of Waterloo
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- What's a man singing in when he pushes his
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- voice into the treble range?Falsetto
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- What's the subject of Anton Dvorak's "New
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- World Symphony"?America
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- How many differently-named notes make up a
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- major scale?Seven
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- What's the highest-pitched wind instrument
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- in a symphony orchestra?The piccolo
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- What's the best known relative of the
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- concertina and the bandoneon?The accordion
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- Did Franz Schubert ever hear a public
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- performance of his two symphonies in C major?No
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- What martial art did James Brown, Billy
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- Joel, Jackie Wilson and Peter Criss practice?Boxing
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- What German composer was dubbed Richard II
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- as Wagner's successor?Richard Strauss
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- What reggae great did The I-Threes back?Bob Marley
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- What part of a violin features horsehair?The bow
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- Who was The Queen of the Gospel Singers?Mahalia Jackson
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- What song's Hebrew title translates as "Let
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- us rejoice"?"Hava Nagila"'s
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- What Beethoven symphony's last movement
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- quotes from Schiller's "Ode to Joy"?The Ninth's
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- What are a trumpeter's "straight," "cup" and
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- "wow-wow"?Mutes
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- What's a jazz player usually unable to do if
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- he's an "ear man"?Read music
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- Whose Sixth Symphony is subtitled "The
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- Pastoral"?Ludwig van Beethoven's
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- What's the term for the deeper of the two
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- main divisions of women's or boys' voices?Alto
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- What's "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" better
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- known as?"The Barber of Seville"
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- What's often called the "mouth organ"?The harmonica
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- What does "R.H." denote on piano music?Right hand
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- What does "pp" mean on sheet music?Very soft
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- Is perfect pitch more a function of the ear
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- or of memory?Memory
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- What's Tchaikovsky's ballet "Le Lac des
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- Cygnes" commonly called?"Swan Lake"
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- What song did George Harrison's oak toilet
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- play when the seat was lifted?"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"
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- What 1936 work did Prokofiev describe as "a
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- musical tale for children"?"Peter and the Wolf"
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- Who do Ping and Pang hang out with in
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- Puccini's "Turandot"?Pong
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- What part of the beat occurs when a
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- conductor raises his baton?The upbeat
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- What orchestral instruments' vibrations are
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- stopped by pressing them against the chest?The cymbals'
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- What's the lowest female voice in an opera?Contralto
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- What Puccini opera begins and ends with
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- Bohemians in a chilly attic?"La Boheme"
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- What Tchaikovsky ballet sees Odille fall for
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- Prince Siegfrid?"Swan Lake"
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- What have audiences done during the
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- "Hallelujah Chorus" since 1743?Stood
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- What's the first season in Vivaldi's violin
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- concertos "The Four Seasons"?Spring
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- Who did Stevie Wonder call the female James
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- Brown?Tina Turner
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- What Offenbach opera revolves around three
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- love stories told by its hero, Hoffmann?"The Tales of Hoffmann"
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- What do you hear in Paris when someone
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- performs a "chanson"?A song
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- What woodwind instrument boasts a total bore
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- length of more than nine feet?The bassoon
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- What's the term for a note that's not a
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- sharp, double-sharp, flat or double-flat?Natural
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- What's the world's most popular triangular
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- stringed instrument?The balalaika
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- Was Renaissance lute music written in notes
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- or numbers?Numbers
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- What flamboyant Italian tenor made his opera
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- debut in 1894 at Naples's Teatro Nuovo?Enrico Caruso
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- What instrument normally requires 26 wine
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- glasses tuned with spring water?The glass harmonica
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- What do you hear in Spain when someone
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- performs a "cancion"?A song
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- What instrument does a symphony orchestra's
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- concert master play?The violin
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- What Italian violin virtuoso purposely
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- broke strings and played on to wow audiences?Nicolo Paganini
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- Is a piano's "damper" pedal on the left or
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- the right?The left
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- What opera opens at a hall in the palace of
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- the Pharaoh in Memphis?"Aida"
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- What composition did Ravel describe as "one
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- very long gradual crescendo"?"Bolero"
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- What songs are called "noels" in Paris?Christmas carols
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- What Russian composed the piece commonly
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- known as "Flight of the Bumble Bee"?Nikolai Rimski-Korsakov
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- How many decades has Johnny Mathis had hits
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- in?Four
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- What do beginning music students learn from
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- "Every good boy does fine"?The treble clef lines
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- What did the retired Beverly Sills call "the
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- most prestigious opera house in the world"?The New York Metropolitan
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- What's the highest "natural" range of a male
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- singing voice?Tenor
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- Where do you start in repeating a piece of
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- music when you see "da capo"?The beginning
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- What secret men's society inspired Mozart to
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- write "The Magic Flute"?The Masons
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- How many flags does a 64th note boast?Four
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- What kind of songs does composer Bela
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- Bartok's music draw on?Folk songs
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- What woodwind is sometimes called a
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- "snorkel"?The bassoon
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- What signature is "common time" another name
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- for?Four-four
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- What word is most commonly used to denote
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- loudness?Volume
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- What blues great's theme is "Everyday I Have
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- the Blues"?B.B. King's
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- What South African songstress testified to
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- the United Nations about apartheid?Miriam Makeba
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- What do jazz players refer to as the "dots"
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- on sheet music?The notes
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- What allows the tonal characteristics of an
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- acoustic guitar to be projected?The sound hole
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- What instrument did Wolfgang Mozart play in
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- his first public performance?The harpsichord
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- What instrument is the French firm Pleyel
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- famed for?The piano
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- What's the only song title starting with the
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- letter X to hit the top 20?"Xanadu"
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- What electronic instrument sports a "joy
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- stick"?A synthesizer
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- What animal did Igor Stravinsky compose
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- "Circus Polka" for in 1942?The elephant
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