Music

Question 1

What Italian term refers to singing without instrumental accompaniment?

Accepted Answer

A cappella

Question 2

What is the name of a classical song composed for a single singer accompanied by piano, such as Franz Schubert's Der Tod

Accepted Answer

Lied

Question 3

classical music, a singer with a very high singing voice would be called a:

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soprano

Question 4

The Austrian composer Wolfgang Mozart was born in which city?

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Salzburg

Question 5

Which of the following is a group of 4 violin concerti written by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi?

Accepted Answer

The Four Seasons

Question 6

What is the musical term for a song from an opera for one voice, often sung with an orchestra?

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Aria

Question 7

How do we call an instrumental introduction to opera, performed by the orchestra?

Accepted Answer

Overture

Question 8

Which instruments are included in piano trio?

Accepted Answer

violin, cello, piano

Question 9

In Purcell's 'Dido and Aeneas', where is Dido Queen of?

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Carthage

Question 10

What is the name of the group of prominent Russian composers, including Rimsky-Korsakov, Balakirev, Borodin…itd

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The Mighty Handful

Question 11

Piano belongs to which family of musical instruments?

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Keyboard family

Question 12

Franz Schubert was composer of which classical music period?

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The Romantic Era

Question 13

Which composer created a symphony in which each musician has to stop playing and leave stage one by one left stage

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Joseph Haydn

Question 14

What is the musical term in classical music or a story told completely through music, in which the characters sing…itd

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Opera

Question 15

Who was not one of the great composers of the First Viennese School?

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Giuseppe Verdi

Question 16

Which Hungarian composer was considered by many to be the first rock star?

Accepted Answer

Franz Liszt

Question 17

What is the musical term for a composition, usually in three parts or movements for solo instrument(s) and orchestra?

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Concerto

Question 18

What do we call the first note of a scale?

Accepted Answer

Tonic

Question 19

What Italian term refers to singing without instrumental accompaniment?

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Recitative

Question 20

How do we call part of opera?

Accepted Answer

Overtune

Question 21

Which of these elements is not a part of a song?

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bow

Question 22

Which composer of the Classical period is considered both the Father of the Symphony as well as the Father of the String

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Joseph Haydn

Question 23

Which 19th-century Italian violinist and composer was often regarded as “The Devil’s Violinist”

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Niccolo Paganini

Question 24

Which ballet incited a riot when it premiered in Paris in 1913?

Accepted Answer

Igor Stravinsky's Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring)

Question 25

Ludwig van Beethoven originally planned to dedicate the Eroica, his Third Symphony, to which prominent figure?

Accepted Answer

Napoleon Bonaparte

Question 26

What is the musical term for a stately Polish dance, originally performed for court processions as military officers itd

Accepted Answer

Polonaise

Question 27

Which of the following facts is NOT true about Joseph Haydn?

Accepted Answer

He established the sonata form

Question 28

Which Russian composer wrote the score for ‘The Nutcracker’ ballet?

Accepted Answer

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Question 29

The fourth movement of which composer’s ninth symphony sets to music Friedrich Schiller’s poem “Ode to Joy?

Accepted Answer

Ludwig van Beethoven

Question 30

A libretto is:

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the text which is paired with a dramatic musical work

Question 31

Which of the following is a distinctive feature of the waltz?

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3 beats in a bar

Question 32

If a musical note is preceded by a sharp , how is the note modified?

Accepted Answer

The pitch is raised by a semitone

Question 33

Which of these indicate pitch in musical notation?

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clef

Question 34

The word "tempo" refers to what aspect of a piece of music?

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speed

Question 35

Which Baroque musician was the first conductor to die from a baton?

Accepted Answer

Jean-Baptiste Lully

Question 36

What music texture was mainly used during the Baroque period?

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Polyphony

Question 37

Which of the following is an opera composed by Giacomo Puccini?

Accepted Answer

Madame Butterfly

Question 38

Which composer devoted 26 years to write a cycle of four operas that take about 15 hours to perform?

Accepted Answer

Richard Wagner

Question 39

Who composed “Water Music”?

Accepted Answer

George Frederic Handel

Question 40

Which of the following periods of classical music came first?

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Renaissance

Question 41

What is the musical term for a set of pieces for orchestra performed in a concert setting?

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Symphonic suite

Question 42

What was the most popular instrument during the Baroque era?

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Harpsichord

Question 43

What is a time signature?

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An indication of the number of beats per measure

Question 44

Das Rheinegold” (The Rhinegold) and “Die Walküre” (The Valkyrie) are two components of which cycle of epic music dramas

Accepted Answer

The Ring of the Nibelung, commonly known as “The Ring Cycle”

Question 45

Which of the following works changed the way people looked at symphonies and helped popularize this musical style?

Accepted Answer

Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 (Choral) by Beethoven

Question 46

During what musical era did the harpsichord lose favor to the piano?

Accepted Answer

Classical

Question 47

How many Ballades did Frederic Chopin write?

Accepted Answer

4

Question 48

How many movements are there in a concerto during the Classical period?

Accepted Answer

3 movements

Question 49

What is the word for a song made of parts of other songs?

Accepted Answer

medly

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Music

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