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Classical Music- multiple choice

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1. Who composed the Gregorian chants?
Anonymous
Martin Luther
Heinrich Shutze
Pope Gregory
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?
aria
lied
overture
sonata
3. Which composer wrote almost exclusively for the piano?
Frederic Chopin
Franz Liszt
Camille Saint-Saens
Robert Schumann
4. Which Russian composer served as a firefighter during the seige of Leningrad?
Peter Tchaikovsky
Dimitri Shostakovich
Igor Stravinsky
Rimsky-Korsakov
5. Which of the following best describes rondo form?
ABACADA
binary
exposition/development/recapitulation
recitative/aria
6. Which of the following is NOT a member of the brass family?
trombone
English horn
French horn
tuba
The English horn is neither English nor a horn!
7. Which of the following is NOT a reed instrument?
bassoon
clarinet
oboe
flute
8. Which of the following terms refers to tempo?
cadenza
rallentando
tutti
forte
9. Which of the following composers lived past the age of 40?
Frederick Chopin
Felix Mendelssohn
Franz Schubert
Sergei Rachmaninoff
10. Which of the following types of composition uses counterpoint throughout?
rhapsody
ballade
aria
fugue
11. What is a distinctive concluding passage of a composition called?
termino
coda
cadenza
finale
12. Which of the following composers had 20 children, three of whom became successful composers themselves?
Franz Schubert
Johann Sebastian Bach
Franz Joseph Haydn
Ludwig van Beethoven
Bach's first wife died and he remarried.
13. Which of the following terms refers to dynamics?
mezzoforte
adagio
appoggiatura
ritardando
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
Latin
Spanish
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?
Arthur Rubinstein
Van Cliburn
Ruth Laredo
James Dick
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Level 90
Sep 30, 2023
Great quiz!

You’ll want to fix the typo on “cadenza,” didn’t see any other mistakes.

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Level 66
Sep 30, 2023
Thanks! Hope you'll take my other quizzes and comment!