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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
Anonymous
Heinrich Shutze
Pope Gregory
2. Which of the following is a multi-movement composition?
lied
aria
sonata
overture
3. Which composer wrote almost exclusively for the piano?
Robert Schumann
Camille Saint-Saens
Frederic Chopin
Franz Liszt
4. Which Russian composer served as a firefighter during the seige of Leningrad?
Igor Stravinsky
Peter Tchaikovsky
Dimitri Shostakovich
Rimsky-Korsakov
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
tuba
French horn
trombone
7. Which of the following is NOT a reed instrument?
flute
clarinet
oboe
bassoon
8. Which of the following terms refers to tempo?
rallentando
cadenza
forte
tutti
9. Which of the following composers lived past the age of 40?
Franz Schubert
Frederick Chopin
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Felix Mendelssohn
10. Which of the following types of composition uses counterpoint throughout?
fugue
aria
rhapsody
ballade
11. What is a distinctive concluding passage of a composition called?
coda
cadenza
finale
termino
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 Schubert
Ludwig van Beethoven
Franz Joseph Haydn
13. Which of the following terms refers to dynamics?
appoggiatura
mezzoforte
adagio
ritardando
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?
Spanish
Italian
Latin
German
16. What composer lost his life in a ship at the beginning of WWI?
Hector Villa-Lobos
Enrico Granados
George Gershwin
Charles Ives
17. What American concert artist won the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition during the cold war?
Ruth Laredo
James Dick
Arthur Rubinstein
Van Cliburn
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