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