SAXOPHONE QUIZ

Question 1

The three fundamentals of saxophone sound production, according to many prominent saxophone teachers, are:

Accepted Answer

Air, Embouchure, and Voicing

Question 2

Coltrane was from Phila., but a church is named for him (St. John Coltrane African Orthodox Church) in what other city?

Accepted Answer

San Francisco, CA

Question 3

What is Paul Creston’s real name?

Accepted Answer

Giuseppe Guttoveggio

Question 4

What is the name of the keywork system that most closely resembles the saxophone’s?

Accepted Answer

Boehm system

Question 5

What composer wrote the piece in which the saxophone made its first public appearance?

Accepted Answer

Berlioz

Question 6

Who was the saxophonist on that performance?

Accepted Answer

Adolphe Sax

Question 7

Adolphe Sax’s hometown of Dinant, Switzerland was known for the culinary industry more so than for manufacturing.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 8

Modern jazz saxophonist Rahsaan Roland Kirk was widely known for (pick 2):

Accepted Answer

Designing his own version of the Saxophone, Playing more than one horn at once

Question 9

These composers have used saxophone in at least one piece: Schoenberg,Copland,Bartok,Ives,Stravinsky,Britten, R. Straus

Accepted Answer

True

Question 10

Which type of employment has Dr. Stambler never had?

Accepted Answer

Delivery driver

Question 11

Who commissioned Claude Debussy to write "Rapsodie?"

Accepted Answer

Elise Hall

Question 12

Paul Desmond composed "Take 5"

Accepted Answer

True

Question 13

Which 2 composers included the saxophone in orchestral works entitled “Symphonic Dances”?

Accepted Answer

Bernstein, Rachmaninoff

Question 14

Where was the first World Saxophone Congress Meeting held?

Accepted Answer

Chicago

Question 15

Which player and teacher never studied with Don Sinta?

Accepted Answer

Joe Lulloff

Question 16

What was the first saxophone that the Selmer company produced?

Accepted Answer

Adolphe Sax

Question 17

Which range most accurately describes the number of known“classical” compositions for saxophone?

Accepted Answer

25,000-30,000

Question 18

What time does studio class end tonight?

Accepted Answer

NOW!

Question 19

The French Military was the first to include saxophone in its bands due to a:

Accepted Answer

A Battle of the Bands

Question 20

What are saxophone mouthpieces made out of? (the actual term, not “hard rubber”)

Accepted Answer

Ebonite

Question 21

Johnny Hodges played Lead Alto for Duke Ellington’s band for nearly 40 years

Accepted Answer

False

Question 22

Who succeeded Adolph Sax at the Paris Conservatory?

Accepted Answer

Marcel Mule

Question 23

What’s the difference between a saxophone and a lawn mower?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 24

If you were lost in the woods, who would you trust for directions?

Accepted Answer

An out-of-tune soprano saxophone player

Question 25

Which horn was played on that performance?

Accepted Answer

Bass Saxophone

Question 26

What composer wrote an article in a 1842 French magazine favorably describing the newly-invented saxophone?

Accepted Answer

Hector Berlioz

Question 27

Who preceded Donald Sinta at the University of Michigan?

Accepted Answer

Larry Teal

Question 28

Saxophonists Julius Hemphill, Oliver Lake, David Murray and Hamiet Bluiett are the original members of which quartet?

Accepted Answer

WorldSaxophone Quartet

Question 29

Which of these things actually happened to Adolphe Sax?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 30

What instrument did Sax develop before inventing the saxophone?

Accepted Answer

Bass Clarinet

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