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?
aria
lied
overture
sonata
3. Which composer wrote almost exclusively for the piano?
Camille Saint-Saens
Robert Schumann
Frederic Chopin
Franz Liszt
4. Which Russian composer served as a firefighter during the seige of Leningrad?
Rimsky-Korsakov
Peter Tchaikovsky
Dimitri Shostakovich
Igor Stravinsky
5. Which of the following best describes rondo form?
exposition/development/recapitulation
recitative/aria
binary
ABACADA
6. Which of the following is NOT a member of the brass family?
tuba
trombone
French horn
English horn
The English horn is neither English nor a horn!
7. Which of the following is NOT a reed instrument?
flute
clarinet
oboe
bassoon
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?
Franz Schubert
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Felix Mendelssohn
Frederick Chopin
10. Which of the following types of composition uses counterpoint throughout?
rhapsody
ballade
aria
fugue
11. What is a distinctive concluding passage of a composition called?
cadenza
coda
termino
finale
12. Which of the following composers had 20 children, three of whom became successful composers themselves?
Johann Sebastian Bach
Ludwig van Beethoven
Franz Schubert
Franz Joseph Haydn
Bach's first wife died and he remarried.
13. Which of the following terms refers to dynamics?
ritardando
appoggiatura
mezzoforte
adagio
14. What does "da capo" tell the performer to do?
return to the beginning of the piece
improvise
repeat the last section
accelerate, then return to the original tempo
15. What language is generally used in music terminology?
German
Spanish
Italian
Latin
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?
James Dick
Van Cliburn
Ruth Laredo
Arthur Rubinstein
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!