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Who is J. S. Bach?
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What Is the pedalboard?
The keyboard for the feet.
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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 that ended with the deaths of Handel and J. S. Bach.
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Who is Beethoven?
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What are manuals?
Keyboards for the hands.
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What is legato?
It means to play smoothly.
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What is the Mall of America?
The largest enclosed shopping mall in the US.
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Who is Beethoven?
A classical composer who wrote 9 symphonies.
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Who is Prince?
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What is the swell box?
An box enclosing pipes, with "shades" in the front.
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What is polyphony?
Music with more the one voice part.
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What are lakes?
Minnesota has more than 10,000 of these.
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Who is Edvard Grieg?
The most famous composer of Norway.
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Who is John Ferguson?
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What are flues and reeds?
The two categories of organ pipes.
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What is improvisation?
Music created spontaneously and not played exactly from a score.
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What is St. Olaf College?
A liberal arts college named for a king of Norway.
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What is string quartet?
This term does not belong: opera, cantata, oratorio, string quartet.
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Who is F. Melius Christiansen?
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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?
Musical form using subjects, countersubjects, and episodes?
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What is Shattuck-St. Mary's School?
Residential school originally established in 1854 as an Episcopal mission school and seminary.
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What is Greek?
The nationality of Ctesibius, the physicist credited with inventing the pipe organ.
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