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Classical Music- multiple choice
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1. Who composed the Gregorian chants?
Gregory was pope when the chants were widely used, but the composer(s) are unknown.
Pope Gregory
Anonymous
Martin Luther
Heinrich Shutze
2. Which of the following is a multi-movement composition?
overture
aria
lied
sonata
3. Which composer wrote almost exclusively for the piano?
Camille Saint-Saens
Robert Schumann
Franz Liszt
Frederic Chopin
4. Which Russian composer served as a firefighter during the seige of Leningrad?
Peter Tchaikovsky
Rimsky-Korsakov
Igor Stravinsky
Dimitri Shostakovich
5. Which of the following best describes rondo form?
ABACADA
exposition/development/recapitulation
recitative/aria
binary
6. Which of the following is NOT a member of the brass family?
The English horn is neither English nor a horn!
English horn
French horn
trombone
tuba
7. Which of the following is NOT a reed instrument?
bassoon
clarinet
flute
oboe
8. Which of the following terms refers to tempo?
cadenza
tutti
forte
rallentando
9. Which of the following composers lived past the age of 40?
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Franz Schubert
Frederick Chopin
Felix Mendelssohn
10. Which of the following types of composition uses counterpoint throughout?
fugue
ballade
rhapsody
aria
11. What is a distinctive concluding passage of a composition called?
cadenza
termino
finale
coda
12. Which of the following composers had 20 children, three of whom became successful composers themselves?
Bach's first wife died and he remarried.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Franz Joseph Haydn
Franz Schubert
Ludwig van Beethoven
13. Which of the following terms refers to dynamics?
ritardando
appoggiatura
adagio
mezzoforte
14. What does "da capo" tell the performer to do?
improvise
return to the beginning of the piece
accelerate, then return to the original tempo
repeat the last section
15. What language is generally used in music terminology?
German
Italian
Spanish
Latin
16. What composer lost his life in a ship at the beginning of WWI?
Charles Ives
George Gershwin
Hector Villa-Lobos
Enrico Granados
17. What American concert artist won the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition during the cold war?
James Dick
Ruth Laredo
Van Cliburn
Arthur Rubinstein
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