What musical era is called the Baroque period, and when did it occur?
Who composed the Messiah, including the famous Hallelujah Chorus?
Who was Johann Sebastian Bach, and what is he famous for?
Who composed The Four Seasons, a set of four violin concertos depicting spring, summer, autumn, and winter?
Who composed Dido and Aeneas, considered the first great English opera?
Name two keyboard instruments that were central to Baroque music.
What is the Classical era in music, and when did it occur?
Who is called the 'Father of the Symphony' and 'Father of the String Quartet'?
Who was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and what are three of his most famous works?
Who composed Symphony No. 5 (with its famous four-note opening) and Symphony No. 9 (Ode to Joy)?
What is a symphony, and what are its typical four movements?
What distinguishes the Classical era from the Baroque era musically?
What is one-point perspective in drawing?
What is two-point perspective, and when do artists use it?
What are the three main elements that give a drawing a sense of form (three-dimensionality)?
What are the three primary colors, and why are they called 'primary'?
What are complementary colors, and what happens when they are placed next to each other?
What is the 'rule of thirds' in composition?
What are the four families of the orchestra?
Name the four main instruments in the string family of the orchestra, from highest to lowest.
Name four main instruments in the woodwind family.
Name four main instruments in the brass family.
What distinguishes tuned percussion from untuned percussion?
What mnemonic helps remember the lines of the treble clef staff, and what note names do the lines spell?
What musical era is called the Romantic period, and when did it occur?
Who composed hundreds of German lieder (art songs) including 'Erlkönig' and 'Ave Maria' despite dying at age 31?
Who was Frédéric Chopin, and what instrument did he primarily write for?
Who composed the symphonies called 'A German Requiem', 'Academic Festival Overture', and the famous 'Lullaby'?
Who composed the 1812 Overture (with its cannon fire), Swan Lake, and The Nutcracker?
What is 'program music,' a popular Romantic-era genre?
What is Impressionist music, and who was its most important composer?
Who composed 'The Rite of Spring,' which caused a riot at its 1913 Paris premiere?
Who composed 'Appalachian Spring,' 'Fanfare for the Common Man,' and 'Rodeo,' creating a distinctively American sound?
Who composed 'Rhapsody in Blue,' 'An American in Paris,' and the opera 'Porgy and Bess'?
What is jazz, and how did it influence classical music in the 20th century?
What is 'atonal' music, and which composer pioneered the 12-tone technique?
What is atmospheric perspective?
What is 'figure drawing,' and what are its standard proportions for an adult human?
What is 'negative space' in a drawing, and why is it important?
What is 'chiaroscuro,' and which painters are especially famous for it?
What is 'foreshortening' in drawing?
What is a 'vignette,' and what effect does it create in a drawing?
What is a musical 'key,' and what does a 'key signature' tell you?
What is an 'interval' in music, and what is a perfect fifth?
What is a 'chord,' and what are the three notes of a major triad?
What does 'sonata form' look like in a Classical-era symphony?
What is a 'time signature,' and what does 4/4 mean?
What is the bass clef, and what mnemonics help remember its lines and spaces?