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1
A piano has a total of ___ keys
88
85
75
55
2
The Moscow Conservatory is officially named after what composer of "Swan Lake" and "The Nutcracker"
Mozart
Antonio Vivaldi
Niccolò Paganini
Tchaikovsky
3
Which American composer died of a brain tumor in his late thirties?
Bach
Mozart
George Gershwin
Erik Sarie
4
Malachi is in School Choir
False
True
5
Up until the 1950s, piano keys were made from elephant tusks.
False
True
6
Pedals on pianos are called – from left to right ?
una corda,sustain pedal & sostenuto
Sostenuto,una corda & sustain pedal
None
una corda, sostenuto, & sustain pedal.
7
What musician won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016?
Jonny Cash
Bob Dylan
Lady Gaga
Michale Jackson
8
A piano can have over ---------- moving parts
200
5,000
100
10,000
9
Mozart wrote his first composition at the age of?
3
5
16
20
10
published after his death, Für Elise is one of the most well-known and popular pieces of music by which German composer?
Beethoven
Schubert
Ravel
Brahms
11
How many keys are in an octave?
8
6
4
5
12
If a piece is in the key of C major, how many sharps or flats are there?
None
1 sharp
2 sharps
1 flat
13
The piano can be considered both a string and percussion instrument.
False
True
14
Adrien Brody won a Best Actor Oscar playing the classical musician and Holocaust survivor in what 2002 film?
The Piano Teacher
The Piano
The Pianist
The Piano Lessons
15
The word piano is the shortened version of the word pianoforte, which means soft (piano) and loud (forte).
False
True
16
Robert Schumann had to petition for the right to marry his sweetheart Clara Wieck from her father in the court
True
False
17
1735 Bach composer loved coffee so much he wrote a song about it?
False
True
18
What brand of piano did President John F. Kennedy own personally?
Steinway
Yamaha
Ivers and pond
Mason and Hamlin
19
Billie Eilish
is obsessed with which classic TV show?
The Office
The Brady Bunch
Veep
Friends
20
Which of these periods of classical music came first?
Romantic
Baroque
Renaissance
Classical
21
Which composer once claimed to have poisoned Mozart
Salieri
Hayden
Bach
Beethoven
22
Who invented Piano Recitals?
Frans Liszt
Beethoven
Bach
Schubert
23
What device produces a "clicking sound" and can be used to keep time while playing the piano?
Remote
Clicker
Time Detector
Metronome
24
Which Austrian composer of the Romantic period is best known for “Ave Maria,” “Symphony No. 9,” and his piano sonatas?
Schubert
Ravel
Brahams
Beethoven
25
What age Malachi started playing piano?
1
2
12
4