Jazz, Blues & Classical Trivia
A trivia pack on the three older musical canons — the great classical composers from the Baroque to the modern era, the blues lineage that fed every Western popular form after it, and the jazz that grew out of the blues and dominated 20th-century American music.
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Eras and composers: Baroque (Bach, Handel, Vivaldi), Classical (Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven's early), Romantic (Beethoven's late, Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Wagner), Late Romantic / Modern (Mahler, Strauss, Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Bartók). Famous works, instruments, the orchestra layout, the great conductors.
Jazz and blues
Blues founders (Robert Johnson, Bessie Smith, Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Howlin' Wolf), the Chicago blues, the modern blues-rock crossovers. Jazz: New Orleans origins, swing era (Ellington, Basie, Goodman), bebop (Parker, Gillespie, Monk), cool and modal (Davis, Coltrane, Mingus, Coleman, Ornette), the fusion era (Miles' electric period, Weather Report), and contemporary (Marsalis, Hancock, the modern downtown scene).
Frequently asked questions
How technical?
General-knowledge level — composers, eras, famous works. No music-theory questions.
Vocal classical (opera)?
Yes — the famous operas and arias appear.
Modern jazz?
Yes — through Marsalis, Iyer, Shorter, the post-bop era.
How many players?
Up to six per room.