Classical Music Survey

123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839
Across
  1. 3. Style of dance music switching between 2/4 and 3/4 at a high tempo with varying accents.
  2. 5. The composer whose music Tchaikovsky praised.
  3. 6. USS _____: The name of the ship that Gottschalk often used as his water taxi to take him from gig to gig.
  4. 7. Last name of the publisher introduced to Dvorak and a big influence behind Dvorak's famous compositions.
  5. 11. The first name of Tchaikovsky's patronist.
  6. 12. What instrument did Dvorak's father play?
  7. 14. The composer who Tchaikovsky thought was overrated.
  8. 17. The city/town in which Charles Ives played organ at church starting at the age of 12.
  9. 18. At what age did Florence Price have her first piano performance?
  10. 20. What job was Dvorak's father and also the job that Dvorak was originally going to hold before becoming a musician?
  11. 24. What did Charles Ives' family manufacture and sell?
  12. 26. ________ countrysides were a major influence in all of Dvorak's compositions.
  13. 27. Charles Ives composed one of his most well known pieces called Variations on _________.
  14. 28. At what age did Florence Price have her first composition published?
  15. 31. Who introduced Simrock to Dvorak?
  16. 33. The style of the piece that Tchaikovsky wrote in dedication of his mother.
  17. 34. The 1812 ____ is a piece that Tchaikovsky is most known for.
  18. 35. At what age did Louis Gottschalk sail over to Europe and leave his hometown of New Orleans?
  19. 37. What ethnicity did Florence Price say she was on her college application?
  20. 39. How many versions of Mussorgsky's opera were there?
Down
  1. 1. How many concerts per day was Gottschalk performing in his years of traveling in the West Indies?
  2. 2. What sport did Charles Ives play in college?
  3. 4. The first name of Tchaikovsky's wife in his first marriage.
  4. 8. ______ of the Piano was Teresa Carreno's nickname.
  5. 9. This type of character was portrayed during the opera also causing some negative feedback.
  6. 10. What did Ives experiment with after listening to multiple bands simultaneously?
  7. 13. What was Mussorgsky's cause of death?
  8. 14. What country did Gottschalk flee to after his scandal in Oakland, California?
  9. 15. What style is the third movement of Dvorak's Czech Suite op. 39?
  10. 16. There were no _____ characters on stage for Boris Gudonov which was one of the reasons it was rejected originally.
  11. 19. Frederic Chopin said that Gottschalk would become the ____ of Pianists.
  12. 21. Alexander Borodin was a composer as well as a ____.
  13. 22. What college did Charles Ives attend and play sports for?
  14. 23. How many movement's are in Price's symphony, "Ethiopia's Shadow in America?"
  15. 25. What style of music did Dvorak say was the true American music and held the melodies that people should embrace?
  16. 29. How many total children were in Dvorak's family?
  17. 30. What role did Dvorak assume at the newly founded conservatory in New York?
  18. 32. What brought Tchaikovsky to America and put him in considerable demand in Russia?
  19. 36. How many children did Anna Cermakova give birth to in 1876 before they sadly passed in 1877?
  20. 38. What city did Florence and her family settle in during the Great Migration?