FOUR SCORE
Credit: GAMES Magazine
March, 1988
E. J. Ulrich

The seven words below have something in common, (other than being four letters each,) that has nothing to do with their meanings. Can you determine their noteworthy characteristic?

BEET
CHOP
HAND
VIVA
RAVE
MEND
SCAR

HINT:
The title and the word "noteworthy" above are clues.

Answer:

Each of the seven words is the beginning of the name of a famous composer:

BEEThoven
CHOPin
HANDel
VIVAldi
RAVEl
MENDelssohn
SCARlatti