1. Antonio Vivaldi
   Antonio Salieri
2. Gioachino Rossini
   Niccolò Paganini

It was said at the time that Niccolò Paganini, who often intentionally performed with just one string on his violin, had sold his soul to the devil.

1. Johann Pachelbel
   Jean-Baptiste Lully
2. George Frideric Handel
   Johann Sebastian Bach

French musician and composer Jean-Baptiste Lully (Lulli) kept time with a large stick, and died of gangrene after accidentally skewering his foot with it.

1. Béla Bartók's The Miraculous Mandarin
   Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring
2. Maurice Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe
   Igor Stravinsky's Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring)

Igor Stravinsky's revolutionary piece, The Rite of Spring provoked a riot when it premiered at the Théâtre de Champs-Elysées in Paris in 1913. Opinions differ as to what sparked the outrage -- the music, the dance or simply class tension.

1. Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 (Choral)
   Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68
2. Liszt: Faust Symphony
   Mozart: Symphony No. 41 in C Major (Jupiter)

Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor (Choral) changed the way the world looked at symphonies.

1. falsetto
   madrigal
2. mezza voce
   operatic

Singing in an unnaturally high "head voice" beyond your vocal range is singing in falsetto.

1. 40-60 BPM
   76-108 BPM
2. 120-168 BPM
   200+ BPM

Allegro is a brisk, bright tempo that's about 120 to 168 beats per minute (BPM).

1. Josef Haydn
   Johann Hummel
2. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
   Franz Schubert

(Franz) Josef Haydn, a musician and composer in the Classical period, is considered to be the Father of the Symphony, as well as the Father of the String Quartet.

1. 8 inches
   9 inches
2. 10 inches
   12 inches

Sergei Rachmaninov, known for his precise, technical playing, is said to have had a hand span large enough to span an octave and a half (middle C to high G), or a minimum of 12 inches.

1. a sequence of songs
   an indication of the number of beats per measure
2. the range of an instrument or voice
   the symbols used for musical notation

The time signature is an indication of the number of beats per measure.

1. bottom
   root
2. tonic
   variable

The first note of a scale is known as the tonic.

1. George Gershwin
   Cole Porter
2. Arnold Schoenberg
   Sergei Rachmaninov

George Gershwin, known for "Rhapsody in Blue" and "Porgy and Bess," died of a brain tumor, a glioblastoma multiforme, at the age of 38.

1. 1 movement
   2 movements
2. 3 movements
   4 movements

The structure of a classical concerto is three movements, typically a fast, then slow, then fast order.

1. two beats per measure
   three beats per measure
2. four beats per measure
   six eighth-notes per measure

One. Two. One Two. In 2/4 meter, each measure has an up and a down beat -- perfect for marching.

1. lied
   mazurka
2. nocturne
   rondo

Songs like "Der Tod und das Mädchen," which is written for a single voice accompanied by a piano, is an example of a lied.

1. Ludwig van Beethoven
   Joseph Haydn
2. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
   Giuseppe Verdi

Three great composers of the First Viennese School are Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven.

1. he was afraid of crowds
   he was afraid of having his back to the audience
2. he was afraid his head would fall off
   he was afraid of making a mistake

Although it sounds like it couldn't be true, Tchaikovsky had a quirk where he held his chin with his left hand while he conducted - to be sure his head wouldn't fall off.

1. Lisztopalooza
   Lisztzone
2. Lisztuoso
   Lisztomania

"Lisztomania," coined by German poet Heinrich Heine, raged after he performed in Berlin in 1841, and during the eight years Franz Liszt toured Europe.

1. Frédéric Chopin
   Felix Mendelssohn
2. Franz Schubert
   Robert Schumann

Viennese composer Franz Schubert was the first composer of the Romantic Era -- and/or one of the last Classical.

1. a pause
   a jump forward to the ending measures
2. the note is played shorter
   the note is rapidly repeated

A fermata is a pause in the music, usually held longer than a normal rest.

1. Baroque
   Classical
2. Renaissance
   Romantic

While the harpsichord was all the rage in the Baroque period, the piano gained popularity in the Classical period.

1. a series of notes that are not connected to each other
   melody
2. a long concerto
   meter

"Staccato" means "detached" in Italian. Such notes are shortened, followed by silence before the next note.

1. American Airlines
   Delta Airlines
2. JetBlue
   United Airlines

United Airlines uses George Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue" in its marketing. "Over the Rainbow" was once considered, as well.

1. presto
   largo
2. legato
   andante

Andante is known as the "walking" tempo, with a rate of 76 to 108 BPM.

1. alto
   bass
2. sforzando
   tenor

The four voices, from high to low, are soprano, alto, tenor and bass. Arrangements using all four voices are SATB.

1. France
   Germany
2. Israel
   United States

Because of its association with antisemitism and the Nazis, Wagner's music is unofficially banned in Israel.

1. a root
   perfect fifth
2. major third
   minor ninth

A dominant seventh chord includes a root, major third, perfect fifth and minor seventh, but not the minor ninth. There are five common types of seventh chords.

1. emphasized upbeats
   emphasized downbeats
2. emphasized offbeats
   emphasized rests

Syncopated notes emphasize the offbeats. Syncopation is very common in modern pop music.

1. Johann Sebastian Bach
   Johannes Brahms
2. Ludwig van Beethoven
   Claude Debussy

It's Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor you hear during the opening credits of the 1931 release of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." The composition can also be heard in "Fantasia," "Sunset Boulevard," "The Meaning of Life" and many more films.

1. Ludwig van Beethoven
   Erik Satie
2. Igor Stravinsky
   Peter Tchaikovsky

When Erik Satie debuted his work, "Parade," a Parisian audience booed and threw oranges at the musicians. Satie often used sounds in his compositions, such as gunshots and typewriter tapping.

1. 5
   7
2. 9
   12

Unlike the 7 tones of the major scale, there are 12 tones in a chromatic scale.

1. two beats per measure
   three beats per measure
2. four beats per measure
   six eighth-notes per measure

Common time, 4/4 meter, is four beats per measure.

1. mayhem
   radicalism
2. rioting
   vagrancy

After being picked up while out for a walk (and, possibly looking in windows), Beethoven was charged with vagrancy. He had some trouble convincing authorities that he was actually Beethoven, because he had no identification on him.

1. Johann Sebastian Bach
   Georges Bizet
2. Orlande de Lassus
   Maurice Ravel

Orlande de Lassus is one of -- if not the most -- prolific composers, creating over 2,000 works.

1. Shorty
   Button
2. Little Mushroom
   Napolean

Because of his short stature, less than five feet, Schubert's friends called him "Little Mushroom."

1. 4'33"
   Funeral March for the Obsequies of a Deaf Man
2. Empty Orchestra
   The Invisible

In 1952, composer John Cage wrote 4'33" -- a three-movement work of silence. Literally, the score states no instruments are played. Cage wasn't the first to compose silence. Alphonse Allais also had a similar project, with "Funeral March for the Obsequies of a Deaf Man," in 1897.