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Classical Music- multiple choice

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1. Who composed the Gregorian chants?
Anonymous
Heinrich Shutze
Pope Gregory
Martin Luther
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
overture
aria
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?
Igor Stravinsky
Rimsky-Korsakov
Peter Tchaikovsky
Dimitri Shostakovich
5. Which of the following best describes rondo form?
recitative/aria
exposition/development/recapitulation
binary
ABACADA
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?
bassoon
flute
oboe
clarinet
8. Which of the following terms refers to tempo?
cadenza
rallentando
forte
tutti
9. Which of the following composers lived past the age of 40?
Felix Mendelssohn
Frederick Chopin
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Franz Schubert
10. Which of the following types of composition uses counterpoint throughout?
ballade
aria
fugue
rhapsody
11. What is a distinctive concluding passage of a composition called?
cadenza
termino
coda
finale
12. Which of the following composers had 20 children, three of whom became successful composers themselves?
Franz Schubert
Johann Sebastian Bach
Franz Joseph Haydn
Ludwig van Beethoven
Bach's first wife died and he remarried.
13. Which of the following terms refers to dynamics?
appoggiatura
adagio
ritardando
mezzoforte
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?
Latin
Italian
Spanish
German
16. What composer lost his life in a ship at the beginning of WWI?
Hector Villa-Lobos
George Gershwin
Enrico Granados
Charles Ives
17. What American concert artist won the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition during the cold war?
Ruth Laredo
Van Cliburn
Arthur Rubinstein
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!