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1. Who composed the Gregorian chants?

Pope Gregory ✓

Heinrich Shutze ✓

Martin Luther ✓

Anonymous ✓

Gregory was pope when the chants were widely used, but the composer(s) are unknown.

2. Which of the following is a multi-movement composition?

sonata ✓

lied ✓

overture ✓

aria ✓

3. Which composer wrote almost exclusively for the piano?

Frederic Chopin ✓

Robert Schumann ✓

Franz Liszt ✓

Camille Saint-Saens ✓

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?

binary ✓

ABACADA ✓

recitative/aria ✓

exposition/development/recapitulation ✓

6. Which of the following is NOT a member of the brass family?

English horn ✓

trombone ✓

French horn ✓

tuba ✓

The English horn is neither English nor a horn!

7. Which of the following is NOT a reed instrument?

oboe ✓

clarinet ✓

flute ✓

bassoon ✓

8. Which of the following terms refers to tempo?

rallentando ✓

forte ✓

cadenza ✓

tutti ✓

9. Which of the following composers lived past the age of 40?

Frederick Chopin ✓

Felix Mendelssohn ✓

Sergei Rachmaninoff ✓

Franz Schubert ✓

10. Which of the following types of composition uses counterpoint throughout?

aria ✓

rhapsody ✓

fugue ✓

ballade ✓

11. What is a distinctive concluding passage of a composition called?

cadenza ✓

termino ✓

coda ✓

finale ✓

12. Which of the following composers had 20 children, three of whom became successful composers themselves?

Franz Joseph Haydn ✓

Johann Sebastian Bach ✓

Franz Schubert ✓

Ludwig van Beethoven ✓

Bach's first wife died and he remarried.

13. Which of the following terms refers to dynamics?

adagio ✓

appoggiatura ✓

mezzoforte ✓

ritardando ✓

14. What does "da capo" tell the performer to do?

improvise ✓

accelerate, then return to the original tempo ✓

repeat the last section ✓

return to the beginning of the piece ✓

15. What language is generally used in music terminology?

Italian ✓

Spanish ✓

German ✓

Latin ✓

16. What composer lost his life in a ship at the beginning of WWI?

Charles Ives ✓

Enrico Granados ✓

George Gershwin ✓

Hector Villa-Lobos ✓

17. What American concert artist won the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition during the cold war?

Van Cliburn ✓

Ruth Laredo ✓

Arthur Rubinstein ✓

James Dick ✓

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