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Classical Music- multiple choice

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