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Category: CLASS MUSIC

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LL42 MD8What is the term for this rudimental drumming pattern? Click herePARADIDDLE16271841.7
LL42 MD6What is the primary occupation of Welshman Bryn Terfel?OPERA SINGER285232101.9
LL42 MD1Giuseppe Guarneri is widely held to be the second-most accomplished person in history at his particular craft. If that is the case, who is considered first?ANTONIO STRADIVARI427151282.1
LL41 MD22This musical term, from the Italian for "at ease", is a tempo marking indicating that the music is to be played slowly, or a composition to be played in this manner (e.g. Samuel Barber's "for Strings").ADAGIO567552421.5
LL40 MD20Identify the composer of the musical piece excerpted here. Click hereANTONIO VIVALDI546254421.2
LL39 MD19Emanuel Ax is a Grammy award winner and virtuoso classical musician on what instrument?PIANO416141181.7
LL39 MD2Identify the musical cantata, composed by Carl Orff in the mid-1930s, which is based on (and named after) a collection of medieval monastic poems.CARMINA BURANA446643211.9
LL38 MD18In music theory, this term refers to the relative volume of a sound or note. Its two basic indications are piano (soft) and forte (loud/strong).DYNAMICS334436231.4
LL37 MD17Name the 18th c. Baroque composer and virtuoso violinist who was nicknamed il Prete Rosso ("The Red Priest").ANTONIO VIVALDI284225251.9
LL36 MD17This composer, whose most famous works include The Nose, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk, The Age of Gold and 15 symphonies, is widely considered to be the greatest classical composer in the history of the Soviet Union.DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH335831171.8
LL35 MD4This opera singer, known as the "Swedish Nightingale", was one of the biggest stars of opera in the mid-19th century, and was wildly popular thanks in large part to promotion by P.T. Barnum.JENNY LIND284135112.1