Classical Music- multiple choice

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1. Who composed the Gregorian chants?
Pope Gregory
Anonymous
Heinrich Shutze
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?
aria
sonata
lied
overture
3. Which composer wrote almost exclusively for the piano?
Robert Schumann
Franz Liszt
Frederic Chopin
Camille Saint-Saens
4. Which Russian composer served as a firefighter during the seige of Leningrad?
Peter Tchaikovsky
Igor Stravinsky
Rimsky-Korsakov
Dimitri Shostakovich
5. Which of the following best describes rondo form?
recitative/aria
ABACADA
exposition/development/recapitulation
binary
6. Which of the following is NOT a member of the brass family?
tuba
trombone
English horn
French horn
The English horn is neither English nor a horn!
7. Which of the following is NOT a reed instrument?
flute
bassoon
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?
Felix Mendelssohn
Franz Schubert
Frederick Chopin
Sergei Rachmaninoff
10. Which of the following types of composition uses counterpoint throughout?
ballade
rhapsody
fugue
aria
11. What is a distinctive concluding passage of a composition called?
coda
cadenza
finale
termino
12. Which of the following composers had 20 children, three of whom became successful composers themselves?
Franz Joseph Haydn
Johann Sebastian Bach
Franz Schubert
Ludwig van Beethoven
Bach's first wife died and he remarried.
13. Which of the following terms refers to dynamics?
mezzoforte
appoggiatura
adagio
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?
Spanish
Latin
Italian
German
16. What composer lost his life in a ship at the beginning of WWI?
George Gershwin
Hector Villa-Lobos
Charles Ives
Enrico Granados
17. What American concert artist won the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition during the cold war?
Arthur Rubinstein
James Dick
Van Cliburn
Ruth Laredo
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!