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Classical Music- multiple choice

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1. Who composed the Gregorian chants?
Pope Gregory
Martin Luther
Heinrich Shutze
Anonymous
Gregory was pope when the chants were widely used, but the composer(s) are unknown.
2. Which of the following is a multi-movement composition?
lied
sonata
aria
overture
3. Which composer wrote almost exclusively for the piano?
Frederic Chopin
Robert Schumann
Franz Liszt
Camille Saint-Saens
4. Which Russian composer served as a firefighter during the seige of Leningrad?
Rimsky-Korsakov
Dimitri Shostakovich
Peter Tchaikovsky
Igor Stravinsky
5. Which of the following best describes rondo form?
ABACADA
exposition/development/recapitulation
recitative/aria
binary
6. Which of the following is NOT a member of the brass family?
trombone
tuba
French horn
English horn
The English horn is neither English nor a horn!
7. Which of the following is NOT a reed instrument?
oboe
bassoon
clarinet
flute
8. Which of the following terms refers to tempo?
tutti
forte
cadenza
rallentando
9. Which of the following composers lived past the age of 40?
Frederick Chopin
Felix Mendelssohn
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Franz Schubert
10. Which of the following types of composition uses counterpoint throughout?
aria
rhapsody
ballade
fugue
11. What is a distinctive concluding passage of a composition called?
termino
cadenza
finale
coda
12. Which of the following composers had 20 children, three of whom became successful composers themselves?
Ludwig van Beethoven
Johann Sebastian Bach
Franz Schubert
Franz Joseph Haydn
Bach's first wife died and he remarried.
13. Which of the following terms refers to dynamics?
adagio
ritardando
mezzoforte
appoggiatura
14. What does "da capo" tell the performer to do?
return to the beginning of the piece
improvise
accelerate, then return to the original tempo
repeat the last section
15. What language is generally used in music terminology?
Italian
Latin
Spanish
German
16. What composer lost his life in a ship at the beginning of WWI?
George Gershwin
Hector Villa-Lobos
Enrico Granados
Charles Ives
17. What American concert artist won the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition during the cold war?
Ruth Laredo
James Dick
Arthur Rubinstein
Van Cliburn
2 Comments
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Level 91
Sep 30, 2023
Great quiz!

You’ll want to fix the typo on “cadenza,” didn’t see any other mistakes.

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Level 66
Sep 30, 2023
Thanks! Hope you'll take my other quizzes and comment!