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Classical Music- multiple choice

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1. Who composed the Gregorian chants?
Martin Luther
Heinrich Shutze
Anonymous
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?
aria
sonata
lied
overture
3. Which composer wrote almost exclusively for the piano?
Robert Schumann
Franz Liszt
Camille Saint-Saens
Frederic Chopin
4. Which Russian composer served as a firefighter during the seige of Leningrad?
Dimitri Shostakovich
Igor Stravinsky
Peter Tchaikovsky
Rimsky-Korsakov
5. Which of the following best describes rondo form?
ABACADA
recitative/aria
binary
exposition/development/recapitulation
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
oboe
bassoon
flute
8. Which of the following terms refers to tempo?
cadenza
forte
tutti
rallentando
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?
fugue
ballade
rhapsody
aria
11. What is a distinctive concluding passage of a composition called?
finale
coda
cadenza
termino
12. Which of the following composers had 20 children, three of whom became successful composers themselves?
Johann Sebastian Bach
Ludwig van Beethoven
Franz Joseph Haydn
Franz Schubert
Bach's first wife died and he remarried.
13. Which of the following terms refers to dynamics?
ritardando
adagio
appoggiatura
mezzoforte
14. What does "da capo" tell the performer to do?
repeat the last section
accelerate, then return to the original tempo
improvise
return to the beginning of the piece
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
George Gershwin
Enrico Granados
17. What American concert artist won the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition during the cold war?
Ruth Laredo
Arthur Rubinstein
Van Cliburn
James Dick
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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!