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