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Who is J. S. Bach?
His most famous organ piece is
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor |
What is a manual?
A keyboard for the hands.
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What is piano?
It means to play softly.
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What is Saint Paul?
The capitol of Minnesota.
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What is the Baroque?
The musical period ending with the deaths of Handel and J. S. Bach.
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What is the pedal board?
A keyboard for the feet.
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What is legato?
It means to play smoothly.
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What is the Mall of America?
The largest shopping mass in the US.
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Who is Beethoven?
A classical composer who wrote nine symphonies.
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What is the swell box?
An box enclosing a division of pipes, with foot-controlled "shades" that change the volume.
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What is polyphony?
Music with more than one voice part.
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What are lakes?
Minnesota has at least 10,000 of these.
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Who is Edvard Grieg?
Norway's most famous composer.
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What is flues and reeds?
The two families of organ pipes.
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What is improvisation?
Music created spontaneously, not played exactly from a score.
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What is St. Olaf College?
A liberal arts college named after a king of Norway.
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What is string quartet?
This term does not belong: opera, oratorio, cantata, string quartet.
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What is celeste?
A set of pipes slightly out of tune with unison pitch.
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What is fugue?
Music form that uses subjects, countersubjects, and episodes.
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What is Shattuck-St. Mary's School?
A residential school originally founded in 1854 as an Episcopal mission school and seminary.
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What is Greek?
Nationality of the physicist Ctesibius who is credited with inventing the pipe organ.
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