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WWhat artist depicted scenes from revelation in a set of 15 woodblocks

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Albrecht Durer

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What composer’s 2nd piano concerto opens with 8 bell like chords and was dedicated to his hypnotist, Nikolai Dahl

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Sergei Rachmaninofff

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What composer wrote an opera based of The Odyssey titled The Return of Ulysses to his Homeland

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Claudio Monteverdi

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What artist painted fruit and also painted pyramid of skulls

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Paul Cezanne

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What artists showed bees morphing into fish in his Metamorphosis II

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MC Escher

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What artist depicted a series of arches receding away from marble stairs where diogenes lounges

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Raphael

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In what opera do 2 characters note that love is torture in delight in the duet “Un, di. felice,trerea”

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La Traviata

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What man translated the bible into Latin and was depicted in the wilderness by Albrecht Durer

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Saint Jerome

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What new year’s march concludes with the audience clapping along

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Radetzky March

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What female impressionist artist painted Reading Le Figaro

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Cassat

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What state did Ansel Adams take Moon and Half Dome

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California

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What August Strindberg play is named after an upper-class woman

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Miss Julie

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In what opera does Donna Elvira announce her intention to enter a convent

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Don Giovanni

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What kind of comic opera did Mozart classify Don Giovanni as

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Opera Buffa

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What artist painted a man breaking a rod on his knee in The Marriage of the Virgin

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Raphael

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In what opera does a character sing the aria Un di, felice eterea,

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La Traviata

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What type of work is Beethoven’s nicknamed emperor

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Piano concerto

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What key is the dominant of F major

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C

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What painting shows Mary with the title elongated feature

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Madonna with the long neck

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In what opera does a character sing quando men vo

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La Boheme

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What art movement replaced the organic shapes of art noveau with geometric lines

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Art Deco

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What artist depicted two hands drawing each other

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MC Escher

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What musical features the con man Harold Hill singing about 76 trombones

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The Music Man

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What set of works are followed by a concerto titled “The Storm at Sea” and is part of the collection The Contest Between Harmony and Invention

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The four Seasons (Vivaldi)

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What musical piece features the tenor aria "Comfort ye my people" as it's first vocal tune
Messiah
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What cathedral did Cristopher Wren design
St Paul's cathedral
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Where is St Pauls cathedral
London
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What man is depicted in the Landsowne portrait
George Washington
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What piece contains the rising phrase D,D, F sharp, A, A
Blue Danube Waltz
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What composer included 3 hornpipe movements in Water Music
Handel
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What artist's work The Sower is dominated by a gold-yellow sun
Van Gogh
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What composer's last major orchestral work was his only clarinet concerto
Mozart
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What building's west side had 28 kings of Judah until 1793
Notre Dame
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What artist painted multiple portraits of Anna and Karl Kuerner
Andrew Wyeth
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What ancient greek artist created the Discobolus
Myron
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In what opera does a character repeat his own name in Largo Al Factotum
Barber of Seville
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Who wrote the Barber of Seville
Rossini
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What artist painted his friend winning a boating contest on the Schuylkill River in Max Schmitt in a single scull
Thomas Eakins
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What composer invented the genre of the tone poem
Franz Lizst
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What artist depicted a woman with a yellow hat and a cup of coffee in front of two rows of lights
Hopper
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What instrument introduces the main theme of The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Bassoon
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Who wrote the Sorcerer's Apprentince
Paul Dukas
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What artists drew a statue of a bird with a man's head looking into the title object in his Still Life with Spherical Mirror
MC Escher
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What instrument plays the main theme of the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
Celeste
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What artist painted The Bathers and the Mont-Sainte-Victoire series
Paul Cezanne
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What tune is played during the tortoises section of The Carnival of the Animals
Can Can
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What Beethoven symphony was originally dedicated to Napoleon
Eroica
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What composer used Hans Bethge's translations of Chinese poems to create a movement titled The Drunkard of Spring
Gustav Mahler
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In what composers last opera does the Queen of Shemka sing a Hymn to the Sun
Rimsky-Korsakov
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What artist drew seven cones floating above a chocolate grinder in a work composed of 2 cracked glass panels
Marcel Duchamp
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What artist depicted nudes holding hands in a circle in multiple versions of La Danse
Henry Mattisse
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What color is associated with Henry Mattises wife
Green
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Who designed the arch
Eero Saarinen
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What city did Arnold Schoenberg head a musical school
Vienna
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What scientist derived three two by two particles that represent quantum mechanical spin operators for spin 1/2 particles
Wolfgang Pauli
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What third movement of Suite Bergamasque is a piano piece whose title translates to moonlight
Clair De Lune
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Who wrote Clair De Lune
Debussy
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What 6 movement suite was dedicated by Debussy to his daughter and has sections title Jimbo's lullaby
Children's Corner suite
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Who designed the Vietnam Veterans memorial
Maya Lin
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What opera's title character sings the aria largo al factotum
Barber of Seville
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What sculpture can be found in the gardens of a museum named for it's artists
The Thinker
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What painting's poses were inspired by Agasia's sculpture Borghese Gladiator
Watson and the Shark
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Who painted Watson and the Shark
John Copley
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What composer didn't finish a planned trilogy of oratios including The Apostles and The Kingdom
Edward Elgar
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A player of what instrument formed a trio with John Mclaughlin and Larry Young
Drums
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What man used pizzicato to represent clashing swords in the Combat of Tancredi and Clorinda
Claudio Monteverdi
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What animals are depicted connected to a hand crank in a painting by Paul Clay
Birds
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What composer's opera contains the Prisoner's Chorus
Beethoven
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What painting was bought by the sculptor Maria Martins after it was showcased at the Valentine Gallery
Broadway Boogie Woogie
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What school's member Marianne Brandt created the Kandem bedside Lamp Table
Bauhaus
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Who lead the photo secessionist movement and owned Galley 291
Alfred Stieglitz
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What A minor piece is played almost exclusively with 16th notes
Flight of the Bumblebee
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What artists made WW1 posters such as Smash the Hun
Edward Hopper
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What man founded the New York City Ballet alongside Lincoln Kirstien
George Balanchine
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What painting's figures hold 2 globes and stand next to a red robed man that may be a self portrait
School of Athens
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What composer's score for an opera was stolen by a manager and never recovered
Scott Joplin
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What composer included a provocative bacchanale in his opera Samson and Delilah
Camille Saint-Seans
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What artist created a collaboration which shows him and another artist playing chess in Entract
Marcell Duchamp
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What composer created a piano piece where a fast f sharp major frisca section comes after a somber la san section
Franz Lizst
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What artist compiled much of his work into a book that features a piece with crosses resting atop mud dwellings called Taos Pueblo
Ansel Adams
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What composer wrote an aria where a title character sings to his wife on his wedding day title Rosa del ciel, vita del mondo e degna
Claudio Monteverdi
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What man included too many vertebrae in La Grande Odalisque
Jean Auguste Ingres
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What man painted Napoleon touching an infected man's armpit in Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa
Jean-Antoine Gros
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What ballet is based on a puppet who comes to life and attempts to woo a ballerina
Petruska
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Who wrote Petrushka
Igor Stravinsky
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What piece's 3 parts include a pifa, or pastoral symphony
Messiah
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What composer wrote 6 Moments musicaux for solo piano 70 years after Schubert
Sergei Rachmaninoff
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What opera concludes with orchestral magic fire music as Loge is summoned to create a protective ring around Brunnhilde
The Valkyrie
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Who composed The Valkyrie
Richard Wagner
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What man has an incestuous relationship with his twin sister Sieglinde in The Valkyrie
Siegmund
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What painting's leftmost figure wears blue robes and reaches both hands towards the sky
The Opening of the Fifth Seal
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Who painted the Opening of the Fifth Seal
El Greco
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What Picasso painting was inspired by The Opening of the Fifth Seal
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
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What composer included "NOw I see why with such dark flames in his song cycle Kindertotenlieder
Gustav Mahler
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in what painting does a black horse look at an incubus sitting on the chest of a sleeping woman
The Nightmare
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Who painted The Nightmare
Henry Fuseli
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What artists painted a lion standing on top of a sand dune in The Sleepy Gypsy
Henri Rousseau
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What tone poem quotes the popular song La Mantovana to portray the title Bohemian River
Die Moldau
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What type of instrumental work is typically the first thing played as part of a stage production
Overture
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What jazz musician worked with Bob Weinstock to improvise the melody to Sweet Sapphire Blues
John Coletrane

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