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A Little Night(mare) Music: Answers

Were some of those tunes tantalisingly familiar? Here are the names. Use them to show off to your friends.

  1. Fifth Symphony (Beethoven)
  2. Gaudeamus igitur (Anon.)
  3. Can-Can (from 'Orpheus in Hades', Offenbach)
  4. Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 (Liszt)
  5. Largo (aka 'Ombra mai fu' from 'Xerxes', Handel)
  6. Unfinished Symphony (Symphony in B Minor, theme from First Movement, Schubert)
  7. Toreador Song (from 'Carmen', Bizet)
  8. Reverie (Debussy)
  9. Minuet (Paderewski)
  10. Spring Song (Mendelssohn)

Schubert's Symphony in B Minor is called 'Unfinished' because it only seems to last forever…

Actual student response on a Music Appreciation final.
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