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Classical Music- multiple choice
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1.
Who composed the Gregorian chants?
Heinrich Shutze
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Pope Gregory
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Anonymous
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Martin Luther
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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
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aria
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sonata
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lied
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3.
Which composer wrote almost exclusively for the piano?
Franz Liszt
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Robert Schumann
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Camille Saint-Saens
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Frederic Chopin
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4.
Which Russian composer served as a firefighter during the seige of Leningrad?
Rimsky-Korsakov
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Dimitri Shostakovich
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Peter Tchaikovsky
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Igor Stravinsky
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5.
Which of the following best describes rondo form?
exposition/development/recapitulation
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recitative/aria
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binary
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ABACADA
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6.
Which of the following is NOT a member of the brass family?
trombone
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English horn
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French horn
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tuba
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The English horn is neither English nor a horn!
7.
Which of the following is NOT a reed instrument?
bassoon
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oboe
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flute
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clarinet
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8.
Which of the following terms refers to tempo?
rallentando
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forte
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tutti
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cadenza
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9.
Which of the following composers lived past the age of 40?
Felix Mendelssohn
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Sergei Rachmaninoff
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Franz Schubert
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Frederick Chopin
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10.
Which of the following types of composition uses counterpoint throughout?
ballade
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fugue
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rhapsody
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aria
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11.
What is a distinctive concluding passage of a composition called?
finale
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cadenza
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termino
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coda
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12.
Which of the following composers had 20 children, three of whom became successful composers themselves?
Franz Joseph Haydn
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Franz Schubert
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Ludwig van Beethoven
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Johann Sebastian Bach
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Bach's first wife died and he remarried.
13.
Which of the following terms refers to dynamics?
ritardando
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adagio
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mezzoforte
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appoggiatura
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14.
What does "da capo" tell the performer to do?
repeat the last section
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improvise
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return to the beginning of the piece
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accelerate, then return to the original tempo
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15.
What language is generally used in music terminology?
German
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Spanish
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Italian
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Latin
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16.
What composer lost his life in a ship at the beginning of WWI?
Charles Ives
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Enrico Granados
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George Gershwin
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Hector Villa-Lobos
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17.
What American concert artist won the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition during the cold war?
Arthur Rubinstein
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James Dick
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Van Cliburn
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Ruth Laredo
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You’ll want to fix the typo on “cadenza,” didn’t see any other mistakes.