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