'C' Fine Arts Terms (Music and Dance) Quiz - By popestcyril

'C' Fine Arts Terms (Music and Dance)

Can you pick the Fine Arts terms beginning with 'C'?

By popestcyril

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  1. Percussion instrument that consists of a pair of thin metal plates having handles for clashing them together
  2. Treble or bass symbol at the start of a line of music
  3. Director of an orchestra
  4. Music sung by natives of Trinidad and consisting of satirical ballads with syncopated rhythms
  5. New York City concert venue on 57th Street and 7th Avenue
  6. Instrument of the violin family that is held between the knees in an upright position and has the second-lowest range, higher only than the bass viol
  7. Simplest of the keyed stringed instruments popular from the 16th to the 18th century; its box-like casing was replaced by the piano in the 18th century
  8. Art of arranging dance steps for ballet and stage dancing
  9. Italian city where the Amati family began making violins, establishing it as an important center of violin making in the late 1500s and early 1600s
  10. Music performed in a private room or small auditorium by a small group of musicians such as a string quartet
  11. Rural folk music of the American Southeast and Southwest played with a guitar, banjo, and other stringed instruments
  12. Popular 19th-century French dance often performed in music halls
  13. Italian for mournfully or sadly
  14. Italian for 'tail' for a passage added to the end of a piece of music
  15. Simple, choppy traditional melody played on a piano with one finger of each hand
  16. Song of praise or joy for any religious festival, especially Christmas
  17. Italian, literally meaning 'concert,' for a small group of solo instruments set against a full orchestra
  18. Italian for gradually increasing in volume
  19. First violinist, ranking next to the conductor
  20. Phrase designating Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Ruggiero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci presented as a double performance
  21. Single-reed woodwind instrument that is most commonly pitched in B flat
  22. Lowest range of the female singing voice
  23. Italian for an elaborate, improvised solo performance shortly before the final cadence in a concerto
  24. Keyboard instrument consisting of steam-blown whistles
  25. Grand piano of the largest size
  26. Lively ballroom dance in 4/4 time, popular during the Flapper era of the 1920s; Southern US port city
  27. Italian for 'castrated' for male sopranos or contraltos in great demand in Italian opera in the 17th- and 18th-century
  28. Brisk, lively ballroom dance led by one couple and characterized by the continual changing of partners; also one at which debutantes are presented
  29. Any piece of music consisting of 2 or more melodic lines to be voiced simultaneously, as in madrigal music
  30. Style of music from about 1750 to 1820
  31. Italian for spiritedly or with spirit, vivacity, or vigor
  32. School or academy that specializes in musical instruction
  33. Latin for 'to fall' for a series of notes or chords that brings a melody, section, or phrase to a conclusion, or to a temporary stop
  34. French for a ballet troupe
  35. Keyboard instrument sounding like fairy bells and used by Tchaikovsky in the 'Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy'
  36. Italian for 'big concert' for a concerto for a small group of solo instruments set against a full orchestra
  37. Composing technique used in a fugue combining two or more melodies
  38. Combination of three or more tones played at once
  39. Instrument that has bellows similar to those of an accordion but is smaller and has buttons instead of a keyboard
  40. Monophonic, unaccompanied music used in various Christian churches
  41. Italian for a lively, impulsive composition
  42. Member of the oboe family considered to be both the alto and the tenor, also called an English horn
  43. Italian for a professional female singer
  44. Italian for a musical composition for voice, often with instrumental accompaniment, used as a setting for a story to be sung but not acted
  45. Italian for brilliant singing of passages designed to display extensive skill

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