How Much Did You Notice? Austria!

Question 1

Strauss used musical chords called:

Accepted Answer

Dominant and Tonic

Question 2

Mozart also learned to play which other instrument?

Accepted Answer

The Violin

Question 3

The waltz's dance ancestors were called:

Accepted Answer

Ländler

Question 4

An orchestra in 1875 could have up to how many players?

Accepted Answer

80

Question 5

His father was:

Accepted Answer

a composer-conductor

Question 6

Mozart wrote A Little Night-Music for which kinds of instruments?

Accepted Answer

Strings

Question 7

Mozart first started experimenting on keyboard when he was:

Accepted Answer

3 years old

Question 8

Mozart would have known only one of these musical instruments. Which do you think he used?

Accepted Answer

Violin

Question 9

Approximately how old is classical music?

Accepted Answer

300 years old

Question 10

Apart from the waltz, a popular dance of Johann Strauss's time was:

Accepted Answer

the Polka

Question 11

How do you count the waltz beat?

Accepted Answer

1-2-3

Question 12

A Little Night-Music was probably written for:

Accepted Answer

A Party

Question 13

How did people get to know Strauss's music?

Accepted Answer

by playing it on the piano

Question 14

What made Johann Strauss's waltzes so attractive? Was it because:

Accepted Answer

they had several themes

Question 15

The beautiful blue Danube was first written for:

Accepted Answer

Male-voice Choir

Question 16

Which one of these classical composers was NOT born in Austria?

Accepted Answer

Beethoven

Question 17

Musicians in Mozart's day had the same status as:

Accepted Answer

Servants

Question 18

Which of these cities is in Austria?

Accepted Answer

Vienna

Question 19

Which instruments play exactly the same theme, or tune, in A Little Night-Music?

Accepted Answer

Cellos and Basses

Question 20

Johann Strauss's music made an impact because:

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it gave people something different

Question 21

What does "serenade" mean?

Accepted Answer

Music played in the evening

Question 22

When an audience calls for a repeat performance of a piece of music it is called:

Accepted Answer

An encore

Question 23

Mozart tried to earn a living as an adult by:

Accepted Answer

Teaching music

Question 24

Johann Strauss II was known as:

Accepted Answer

The Waltz King

Question 25

Mozart's sister's name was:

Accepted Answer

Nannerl

Question 26

Strauss's music was often played:

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in cafés

Question 27

When Mozart died at the age of 35, he had written approximately how many pieces of music?

Accepted Answer

600

Question 28

Which of these countries does not have a border with Austria?

Accepted Answer

Russia

Question 29

Mozart was famous across Europe for:

Accepted Answer

Improvising

Question 30

Mozart's famous opera, The Marriage of Figaro, was first performed in:

Accepted Answer

Vienna

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