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General arts and history quiz for music students.
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1
What year did Christopher Columbus discover America?
1492
1776
1765
1495
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Which famous classical philosopher did also develop the first musical intonation system?
Pythagoras
Aristotle
Socrates
Plato
3
What year was Stravinsky's "Rite of spring" first performed?
1923
1913
1912
1902
4
Who composed the Moonlight sonata?
Ludwig von Beethoven
Ludwig van Beithoven
Ludwig van Beetoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
5
Who wrote Also sprach Zarathustra?
Stanley Kubrick
Friedrich Nietzsche
Joahnn Wolfgang von Goethe
Karl Marx
6
Who wrote Don Quijote?
Gabriel Garcia
Miguel de Cervantes
Pierre de Vries
Don Corleone
7
Who wrote the famous composition 4'33?
John Cage
Philip Glass
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Aaron Copland
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What style in architecture and design is a parallell to Gustav Mahler's style of music?
art noveau
art deco
jugend
dadaism
9
From which play by Shakespeare is the famous quote "To be or not to be"?
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Macbeth
Othello
Hamlet
10
Who painted this picture?
Gustav Klimt
Pablo Picasso
Vincent van Gogh
Jackson Pollock
11
Who were known as
The Five
, also known as
The Mighty Handful?
Debussy, Ravel, Milhaud, Poulenc, Honegger
Copland, Bernstein, Barber, Gershwin, Corigliano
Bach, Beethoven, Bruch, Bruckner, Brahms
Balakirev, Borodin, Cui, Mussourgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov
12
Which is the correct chronological order?
Renaissance, Classicism, Baroque, Romantic
Renaissance, Baroque, Classicism, Romantic
Renaissance, Baroque, Romantic, Classicism
Baroque, Rennaissance, Classisim, Romantic
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Who composed this?
Luciano Berio
Krzysztof Penderecki
Alban Berg
Arne Nordheim
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Which philosopher is famous for "Cogito ergo sum" - or "I think, therefore I am"?
René Descartes
Thomas Aquinas
Plato
Immanuel Kant
15
What style or period is this painting an example of?
Qubism
Surrealism
Dadaism
Abstract
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And who composed this?
Steve Reich
Arvo Pärt
Louis Andriessen
John Adams
17
Who composed the Brandenburg concertos?
Henry Purcell
J. S. Bach
G. F. Händel
Antonio Vivaldi
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Which of these is considered to be one of the finest renaissance composers?
Dieterich Buxtehude
Heinrich Schütz
Alessandro Scarlatti
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
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What year was the French revolution?
1789
1899
1879
1799
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When did Schönberg publish his "Dodecaphony"?
1923
1933
1943
1913
