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What is "high wood"
The French word for oboe is “hautbois.” What does this literally translate to in English?
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What is Overture to "La Scala di Seta" by Rossini
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Moosewood Restaurant
What is the name of the famous vegetarian/vegan restaurant located in Ithaca?
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What is
Expressed in millimeters, where should the tip of a reed begin?
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What is "Grenadilla" wood or the "Mpingo" tree
The oboe is made from the densest wood on planet earth. What is the name of either the wood, or the tree that the wood used to makes oboes harvested from?
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What is the Cimarosa Oboe Concerto
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Buttermilk Falls, Cascadilla, First Dam, Second Damn, Taughannock Fall, Six Mile Creek, Lick Brook Falls, Lucifer Falls, Enfield Falls
Name 3 gorges/waterfalls in Ithaca
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What is
What are the name of Paige’s dogs?
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English Horn, Heckelphone, Oboe D'Amore, Bass Oboe, Baroque Oboe, Oboe Da Caccia, Contrabass oboe, Musette
Name 3 instruments within the oboe family (besides the oboe).
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The Strauss Oboe Concerto
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Collegetown Bagels (CTB!)
This Ithaca favorite was ranked one of the top 30 best college bagel shops in the US.
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What is
Name the composer that wrote the pieces “La Mer” “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun” and “The Girl with the Flaxxen Hair?”
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Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4, Scheherezade Movement 2, Brahms 3, Beethoven 3 movement 2, Bach Cantata 82 "Ich Habe Genug," Bizet Symphony in C Movement II
Can you name a famous oboe solo in a minor key?
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What is Bach Cantata 56
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1892
What year was Ithaca college founded?
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What is
What is the quality of this chord?
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Baroque (its Renaissance predecessor was the Shawm)
During what musical era was the oboe invented? (Bonus points: What musical instrument was the predecessor of the oboe as we know it?)
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What is Sequenza VII by Luciano Berio
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Simeons, Viva, Ale House, The Rook, Silkies, Bickering Twins, Coltivare, Reds, Taste of Thai, Just a Taste, Mohagany Grill, Pasta Vitto, CTB, Mia's, Asia Cuisine, Moonies, Monks,
Name 3 restaurants or bars found on the Commons
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What is
What is Jake’s favorite animal?
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