Classical Music From A-Z #5 - Statistics

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	Hint	Answer	% Correct
A	One of Mozart's five given names	Amadeus	95%
H	Country of Bartok's birth	Hungary	91%
C	Italian term that indicates to grow louder	crescendo	83%
S	Beloved ballet by Tchaikovsky	Swan Lake	77%
B	The principal female dancer in a ballet	ballerina	69%
I	A musical composition that contains no vocal parts	instrumental	66%
Y	Renowned, very popular contemporary cellist (full name)	YoYo Ma	58%
V	A very slight, subtle wavering of tone which increases its richness but does not noticeably change the pitch	vibrato	57%
L	Term for the text of an opera	libretto	53%
R	Italian term for gradually slowing down	ritardando	49%
F	Beethoven's only opera	Fidelio	47%
T	To "shake" or rotate very rapidly from one note to another, not a neighbor tone, indicated with a heavy diagonal line through the stems: in string music it can be produced on a single pitch.	tremolo	39%
M	A graceful 3/4 composition based on a dance, often serving as the 3rd movement of a classic-era symhony or sonata	minuet	37%
D	Pedal on the piano that allows strings to continue to vibrate after notes have been released	damper pedal	30%
G	Composer of "Ave Maria" melody that uses Bach's first Prelude in C as its harmonic base	Gounod	27%
O	Term used in string technique for notes played without pressing fingers down	open string	24%
E	Russian__________Overture, by Rimsky-Korsakov	Easter	23%
J	Term used in dance and in string technique that means "jump"	jete	21%
W	A 6-tone scale consisting entirely of major second intervals	whole tone scale	21%
K	Man who compiled the catalogue listing of Mozart's works: They are identified by K. numbers rather than Opus numbers.	Kochel	18%
Q	Interval used in sitar music, not possible on a standard piano	quarter tone	17%
U	Another term for pick-up note(s)	upbeat	17%
P	Italian term for a touch which involves pressing a note for its full value, but not connecting it to the following notes, (between staccato and legato)	portato	7%
N	A note added to a chord that is "foreign" to the chord	non-chord tone	6%
Z	Tiny cymbals used by belly dancers	zills	2%

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