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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?
sonata
overture
aria
lied
3. Which composer wrote almost exclusively for the piano?
Robert Schumann
Franz Liszt
Camille Saint-Saens
Frederic Chopin
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?
exposition/development/recapitulation
ABACADA
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!
French horn
trombone
tuba
English horn
7. Which of the following is NOT a reed instrument?
bassoon
clarinet
flute
oboe
8. Which of the following terms refers to tempo?
cadenza
rallentando
forte
tutti
9. Which of the following composers lived past the age of 40?
Frederick Chopin
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Felix Mendelssohn
Franz Schubert
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?
coda
termino
cadenza
finale
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 Joseph Haydn
Franz Schubert
Ludwig van Beethoven
Johann Sebastian Bach
13. Which of the following terms refers to dynamics?
mezzoforte
adagio
appoggiatura
ritardando
14. What does "da capo" tell the performer to do?
accelerate, then return to the original tempo
repeat the last section
improvise
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?
Enrico Granados
George Gershwin
Hector Villa-Lobos
Charles Ives
17. What American concert artist won the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition during the cold war?
James Dick
Van Cliburn
Ruth Laredo
Arthur Rubinstein
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