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Classical Music- multiple choice

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1. Who composed the Gregorian chants?
Anonymous
Heinrich Shutze
Martin Luther
Pope Gregory
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?
Camille Saint-Saens
Frederic Chopin
Robert Schumann
Franz Liszt
4. Which Russian composer served as a firefighter during the seige of Leningrad?
Rimsky-Korsakov
Igor Stravinsky
Dimitri Shostakovich
Peter Tchaikovsky
5. Which of the following best describes rondo form?
ABACADA
exposition/development/recapitulation
binary
recitative/aria
6. Which of the following is NOT a member of the brass family?
English horn
French horn
trombone
tuba
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?
forte
rallentando
cadenza
tutti
9. Which of the following composers lived past the age of 40?
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Frederick Chopin
Franz Schubert
Felix Mendelssohn
10. Which of the following types of composition uses counterpoint throughout?
ballade
rhapsody
aria
fugue
11. What is a distinctive concluding passage of a composition called?
termino
cadenza
coda
finale
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?
adagio
mezzoforte
appoggiatura
ritardando
14. What does "da capo" tell the performer to do?
accelerate, then return to the original tempo
return to the beginning of the piece
improvise
repeat the last section
15. What language is generally used in music terminology?
Spanish
Latin
German
Italian
16. What composer lost his life in a ship at the beginning of WWI?
Hector Villa-Lobos
Charles Ives
Enrico Granados
George Gershwin
17. What American concert artist won the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition during the cold war?
Arthur Rubinstein
James Dick
Ruth Laredo
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!