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1. This glorious piece, "Esther", was composed by Handel and its musical type is known as which of these?
2. This modern and quite recent choral piece, known as "Lux Aeterna", composed by American Morton Lauridsen is an absolutely riveting type of music format known as which of these?
3. This type of sacred music is performed as an evening prayer and scintillating composers who authored such pieces include Rachmaninoff, Monteverdi, Handel, and H. Praetorius. The pieces are written in Latin.
4. This piece is best known as the "_______ and Gigue in D minor", a piece originally arranged for three violins and basso continuo. It represents a serene melody in which one part starts followed by a repeat of the melody. It appears now in many improvised forms for several instruments including piano, harpsichord, organ, solo violin, and trumpet and is also featured in many soundtracks and at weddings.
5. "Prince Igor" is a Russian staple of which type of choral piece composed by Alexander Borodin, featuring the "Polovtsian Dances"?
6. A prolific composer authored more than 200 of this type of choral piece. The piece features alternating rounds of arias, recitatives, and chorales, backed by instrumentals. They may be in Latin or German or other languages. Arguably the most common one we hear occurs at Christmas, Easter, weddings, funerals, and typically what they played is the chorale section of the piece. The name of one famous piece is "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben".
7. This type of music comes at the commencement of an opera, ballet, suite, oratorio, or play and there are scores of famous ones. Beethoven and Mozart composed several of them. "The Consecration of the House" composed by Beethoven is example of one.
8. This piece, "Scheherazade", composed by Rimsky-Korsakov, tells the tales of the Arabian Nights. It was also featured as the instrumental to the Saturday news analysis show "Agronsky & Co".
9. This well-known suite, organized in concerto form, was composed by Mussorgsky, and is an absolutely celebrated piece of music. The piece was recorded for piano but appears mostly now with a dominance of the brass section of orchestra.
10. This piece, well modeled by J.S. Bach, is intended to exemplify the instrumentalist's technique of the fingers. We mostly hear it on organ and the following attributes characterize the type of composition: rapid runs up the keyboard, full-fingered chords, and a harmony on the higher end of frequencies.
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