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MUS 105 (Sec. 1624) (bg_mus105_WINTER)
Instructor: Brian Gould
QUIZ 2
Question 1 (2 points)
The primary goal of the Florentine Camerata was:
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a. reestablishing Florence as the
primary center for Italian
opera.
b
.
creating a movement for the
prima prattica style of music.
c. building the first public opera
house before Venice and
Naples did.

d
.
rediscovering the expressive
power of music based on
Classical ideals.
e. None of these.
The prevailing musical style in the time of the Camerata (late
sixteenth century) was
known as:
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a. the Greco-Roman style.
b. the Neapolitan style.
c. the Franco-Flemish style.
d. the neo-Baroque style.
e. None of these.
During the 16th century, madrigal poetry served as a vehicle for

musical innovation and
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experimentation because madrigals:
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a. were written for the express
purpose of being set to music.
b
.
utilized iambic pentameter in
a style similar to
Shakespearean sonnets.
c. were set to music which
attempted to fully reflect the
emotional content of the text.
d
.
All of the above.
e. a and c.

A compositional technique favored by madrigal composers in
which the composer
attempted to precisely mirror the meaning and emotional
content of a textual passage
came to be known as:
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a. text imitation.
b. musical mimicry.
c. the prima practica.
d. All of the above.
e. None of the above.
General feedback: This technique came to be known as "word-
painting".
The new style of writing music for madrigals--which featured
the solo singer rather than
a choir singing multiple parts--became known as:

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a. opera.
b. monody.
c. the new madrigal style.
d. recitative.
e. None of these.
The role of the harpsichord in the new style - filling in the
harmonic "gaps" beneath the
solo singer - became known as:
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a. oratorio.

b. secunda practica.
c. aria accompaniato.
d. continuo.
e. None of these.
The new music dramas which employed monody came to be
called:
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a. opera
b. oratorio
c. cantata
d. sonata
e. concerto grosso
In the year 1600, the birth of the Baroque Period in music, two
composers - Caccini and
Peri - composed the first new music dramas. Their dramatic

plots were based on the
legend of:
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a. Zeus.
b. Apollo.
c. Orpheus.
d. Favola.
e. Romeo.
In the year 1607, the greatest composer of the early Baroque
also composed a music
drama based on this same legend, a landmark work which fully
realized the potential of
the new style the Camerata had developed. This great composer
was:
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a. Caccini.
b. Corelli.
c. Monteverdi.
d. Mostaccioli.
e. None of these.
General feedback: If you answered "d" you must be hungry!
[Mostaccioli is an Italian
pasta dish].
Besides the famous music drama he composed in 1607, this
same great early Baroque
composer is also noted for the composition of nine collections
of:
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a. operas
b. madrigals

c. monodies
d. concertos
e. sonatas
What important musical event took place in Venice in 1637?
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a. the first performance of a
monody
b
.
the first performance of a
madrigal
c. the first performance of an
opera
d
.

the first public opera house
opened
e. None of these.
Two important composers of the second generation of the
Baroque - active from about
1640 to 1680 - were:
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a. Caccini and Cucci
b. Cavalli and Cesti
c. Cesti and Caccini
d. Corelli and Cavalli
e. Cucci and Corelli
General feedback: If you selected "a" or "e", we want to know:
are you getting adequate
rest? "Cucci" rhymes with the name of a renowned Italian
fashion
designer, but other than that he or she doesn't exist, at least not
in Trip
2. Doctor G says: get a good nite's rest before taking quizzes! :)

Unstaged dramatic works based on Biblical themes and
performed during the Lenten
season (when the Church forbade opera performance) came to
be known as:
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a. operas.
b. cantatas.
c. oratorios.
d. dramatis sacrae (sacred plays).
e. chorales.
The first great composer of these unstaged dramatic works
mentioned in the preceding
question (#13) was:
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a. Cavalli.
b. Corelli.
c. Handel.
d. Bach.
e. None of these.
General feedback: Though less well-known today than Handel,
the honor of the FIRST
greatest oratorio composer goes to Carissimi. Carissimi's works
are
written in Latin--the official ecclesiastical language of the
Roman
Catholic Church until 1965-- whereas Handel's are in English,
written
to appeal to the English audiences of his time, and also more
accessible to modern English-speaking audiences.
The terms "da chiesa" and "da camera" both refer to types of:
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a. the Lenten oratorio.
b. the early Baroque opera.
c. the Baroque Sonata.
d. the late Baroque concerto.
e. styles of madrigal singing.
An important form of Baroque instrumental music was the
_____
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a. canzonetta.
b. madrigal.
c. concerto grosso.
d. instrumental monody.
e. recitative.

The composer who helped establish this new instrumental form
mentioned in the
previous question (#16), publishing a collection of these works
late in life, was:
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a. Vivaldi.
b. Corelli.
c. Vini.
d. Ragazzi.
e. Canzoni.
General feedback: Vivaldi came after Corelli, who preceded him
by a generation and
established the concerto grosso with his collections published
late in
life. If you picked "c", "d" or "e" you were napping, but still
you're not
in bad company. Put them together and they comprise one of the
most
admonitions to pleasure in history: "Vini, Ragazzi e Canzoni!"

translates to "Wine, Women and Song!". :)
The composer who wrote over 500 works in the form mentioned
in #16 was:
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a. Corelli.
b. Caccini.
c. Verdi.
d. Vivaldi.
e. Tartini.
Today, the best-known and most popular work in this same
instrumental form is known
in Italian as "Le quattre stagioni"; its title in English is:
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a. The Four Stations.
b. The Four Seasons.
c. The Three Stooges.
d. The Cat's Pajamas.
e. None of these.
The composer of the work just discussed in the preceding
question (#19) was:
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a. Boccelli.
b. Bottacelli.
c. Barbarolli.
d. Barbini.

e. None of these.
General feedback: Of course, the answer is Vivaldi. Hey, you've
just completed your first
"real" quiz (Trip 1 was introductory). Congratulations! Travel
on to
Trip 3 for more great music!
QUIZ 3
1
The year 1685 is significant to the history of Western music
because of:
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a. the birth of Domenico
Scarlatti.
b
.
the birth of George Frideric
Handel.
c. the birth of Johann Sebastian
Bach.

d
.
All of these.
e. None of these.
2
Domenico Scarlatti's greatest achievement was his composition
of over 500:
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a. concerti grossi.
b. essercizi.
c. madrigals.
d. operas.
e. oratorios.

3
George Frideric Handel spent the majority of his adult life in
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a. England.
b. France.
c. Germany.
d. Italy.
e. None of these.
4
Handel scored his greatest successes as a composer of:
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a. Opera seria.
b. Opera buffa.
c. oratorios.
d. concerti grossi.
e. None of these.
5
Handel's most famous composition--first performed in 1742 to
benefit a Foundlings'
(Orphans') Hospital--was written in less than 21 days. It is
entitled:
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a. Orfeo.
b. Messiah.
c. Mass in B minor.

d. St. Matthew Passion.
e. None of these.
6
Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the greatest composers of all
time, yet he was not
famous as a composer during his lifetime. He came from a
family of musicians, yet knew
tremendous hardship within his immediate family: his first wife
died when he was only
35, and before he reached the age of ten his _____ died.
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a. eldest brother
b. youngest brother
c. parents
d. grandparents (all four)
e. none of these

7
Many different methods of tuning keyboard instruments existed
in Bach's day; the
method used today is the one Bach set out to show as superior
to all others, which he
successfully demonstrated by composing a set of pieces known
as:
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a. The Art of Fugue.
b
.
The Goldberg Variations.
c. The Well-Tempered
Clavichord
d
.
The B minor Mass.
e. The Little Organ Book.

8
By the time Bach began actively composing, the many and
varied forms of Renaissance
instrumental music had become standardized in their order as
part of what was known as:
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a. the concerto grosso.
b. the sonata da chiesa.
c. the Baroque dance suite.
d. the oratorio.
e. None of these.
9
In the genre described in #8 above, Bach composed and
published:
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a. 6 English Suites.
b. 6 French Suites.
c. 6 Partitas.
d. All of these.
e. None of these.
10
The slow dance movement of Spanish origin in the genre
described in #8 above is:
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a. The Sarabande.
b. The Allemande.

c. The Courante.
d. The Corrente.
e. The Gigue.
11
Bach wrote a set of six pieces for the Margrave of Brandenburg
in the concerto grosso
style pioneered by Corelli and Vivaldi; they are known today
as:
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Student
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a. the sonatas of Brandenburg.
b
.
the Art of Fugue.
c. the Brandenburg Concertos.
d
.

the Brandenburg Variations.
e. the Well-Tempered
Clavichord.
12
During his lifetime, Bach's reputation was primarily derived not
from the music he wrote
but rather from his virtuoso skill on this instrument:
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a. the clavichord.
b. the harpsichord.
c. the clarini trumpet.
d. the violin.
e. None of these.
13
During his tenure as Kantor of the St. Thomas Cathedral in
Leipzig, Bach wrote hundreds
of complete settings of the Lutheran church service known as:

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a. cantatas.
b. chorales.
c. operae lutheranae.
d. oratorios.
e. None of these.
14
As described in Trip Three, the term "Passion" in Western
music refers to:
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a. the most dramatic scenes in an
opera.

b
.
a love scene featuring
passionate operatic arias.
c. the Gospel account of events
leading up to Jesus'
crucifixion.
d
.
an intimate duet sung by two
lovers during an opera.
e. None of these.
15
Bach's St. Matthew Passion features:
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a. elements of opera, oratorio,

German contrapuntal style.
b
.
Italian opera techniques.
c. setting the same melody to
different texts as a unifying
feature.
d
.
All of these.
e. None of these.
16
Late in life, an experience that severely undermined Bach's
health was:
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a. a 200 mile walk to Hamburg.
b

.
falling from a ladder while
repairing an organ.
c. being placed in jail by the city
council of Leipzig.
d
.
marital strife with his second
wife, Anna Magdalena.
e. none of these
17
The greatest work of Bach's lifetime, composed over a twenty-
year period and considered
one of the greatest choral works of all time, is:
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a. the St. Matthew Passion.

b
.
the cantata Ein Feste Burg.
c. the Mass in B minor.
d
.
the Seven Last Words of
Christ.
e. none of these
18
The term chorale refers to:
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a. a German hymn.
b
.
a four-part religious song.

c. a song type which emerged
during the Reformation Period.
d
.
All of these.
e. None of these.
19
The legacy of Bach is:
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a. his mastery of all the styles
prevalent in his day.
b
.
his composition of over 1500
works.

c. his being the most prolific
composer in Western musical
history
d
.
all of the above.
e. none of the above.
20
Bach's passing in the year 1750 marked:
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a. the beginning of the Classical
Period.
b
.
the end of the Baroque Period.
c. the resurgence of the
popularity of Bach's works.

d
.
All of these.
e. a. and b. only
QUIZ 4
In the 1730s, the popularity of opera seria began to wane in
favor of:
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a. Opera buffa.
b. the concerto.
c. the operetta.
d. the sonata.
e. None of these.

An important new genre which evolved during the Classical
Period was:
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a. the symphony.
b. the string quartet.
c. the classical sonata.
d. All of these.
e. None of these.
A characteristic of the early classical symphony is:
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a. short, symmetrical phrase
structures (2-, 4- or 8-
measures, etc.).

b
.
the use of rocket figures (rapid
ascending passages for
strings).
c. tuneful melodies designed for
popular taste and appeal.
d
.
All of these.
e. None of these.
A leading early symphony composer was:
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a. Monteverdi.
b. Santari.

c. Caccini.
A major center for symphonic composition in the 1730s and
beyond was:
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a. Bonn.
b. Berlin.
c. Mannheim.
d. Munich.
e. None of these.
The leader of the symphony orchestra located in #5 above was:
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a. Oberheim.
b. Stamitz.
c. Steinmetz.
d. Unterheim.
e. None of these.
This composer was born in 1732, the same year as George
Washington.
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a. Beethoven
b. Haydn
c. Mozart
d. Stamitz

e. Vivaldi
The four-movement model for the string quartet that was
expanded upon by Mozart and
Beethoven featured as its third movement:
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a. a fast movement.
b. a minuet and trio.
c. a slow movement.
d. Any of these.
e. None of these.
In all, Haydn composed _____ symphonies.
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a. 9
b. 41
c. 83
d. 104
e. 600
During the Classical Period, sonatas were increasingly written
for a newer instrument
called the piano; the invention of the piano is credited to _____
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a. Stradavari.
b. Monteverdi.
c. Steinway.
d. Yamaha.

e. None of these.
General feedback: Cristofori, an Italian instrument maker, is
credited for the invention of
the piano in 1709.
An important early composer for the piano was:
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a. Stamitz.
b. C. P. E. Bach
c. Sammartini.
d. Pergolesi.
e. None of these.
Late in life, Haydn wrote two magnificent oratorios, The
Seasons and _____

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a. The Messiah.
b. The Creation.
c. The Apocalypse.
d. The Titans.
e. None of these.
Most scholars agree that the greatest influence in Mozart's life
was:
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a. Christianity.
b. his father.
c. his wife.

d. the Archbishop of Salzburg.
e. None of these.
In his day, Mozart's music was considered by some to be too
progressive, and much of it
was not well-received in Vienna's conservative musical climate.
Rather than in Vienna,
he scored his greatest "box office" success with his operas in:
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a. Berlin.
b. Budapest.
c. Prague.
d. Warsaw.
e. None of these.
General feedback: Mozart's operas were best-received during
his lifetime in the city of
Prague, then part of the larger Hapsburg Empire, today part of
the

Czech Republic.
During his lifetime, Mozart composed over _____ original
works (only the number
closest to the actual number will be considered correct).
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a. 200
b. 300
c. 400
d. 500
e. 600
Mozart composed a total of _____ symphonies.
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Answer Choices
a. 9
b. 41
c. 83
d. 104
e. 600
A leading opera composer of Mozart's day who is still revered
today for his attempts to
reform the dying genre of opera seria was:
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a. Carissimi.
b. Gluck.
c. Handel.
d. Sammartini.

e. None of these.
One of three operas based on libretti written by Lorenzo da
Ponte, this opera's libretto
was based on a French play, the publication of which had been
censored by the Emperor.
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Student
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Answer Choices
a. The Magic Flute.
b
.
The Marriage of Figaro.
c. Idonomeo.
d
.
The Abduction from the
Seraglio.
e. None of these.

Mozart's last opera, which draws from Masonic imagery and is
based on a libretto written
by Mozart's friend Emanuel Schikaneder, is:
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Student
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a. The Magic Flute.
b. The Marriage of Figaro.
c. Don Giovanni.
d. Cosi fan tutte.
e. None of these.
Mozart's last work, a great choral masterpiece, was completed
by his friend Sussmayer
due to his untimely death at age 35. It was:
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Response

Answer Choices
a. The Mass in E minor.
b. The Requiem Mass.
c. The Magnificat.
d. Ave verum corpus.
e. None of these.
QUIZ 5
Beethoven faced many struggles, among them:
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a. the onset of deafness.
b
.
maltreatment from an
alcoholic, abusive father.
c. smallpox, which left his face
permanently scarred.

d
.
All of these.
e. None of these.
Beethoven's difficulties were so severe he even contemplating
taking his own life, as
revealed in a document he wrote known today as:
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a. the last will and testament of
Beethoven.
b
.
the suicide note of Beethoven.
c. the Selbstverstandis
Dokumenti.
d

.
the Heiligenstadt Testament.
e. None of these.
Beethoven's only opera was entitled:
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a. Die Zauberflote.
b. Fidelio.
c. Die Zigeunerbaron.
d. Figaro.
e. None of these.
Beethoven's Middle Period is also referred to as his:
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a. Contemplative Period.
b. Deaf Period.
c. Despondent Period.
d. Heroic Period.
e. None of these.
Beethoven's teacher, who figured as an early positive influence
in his life, was:
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a. Heine.
b. Hiller.
c. Neefe.
d. Schiller.

e. None of these
Beethoven wrote a total of _____ sonatas for piano.
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a. 12
b. 22
c. 32
d. 42
e. None of these
Beethoven wrote a total of _____ symphonies.
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Answer Choices

a. 5
b. 6
c. 7
d. 8
e. 9
Beethoven's last symphony featured the use of a _____, which
had never before been
used in a symphonic composition.
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a. ballet
b. choir
c. narrator
d. staged opera
e. None of these.

More than anything else, Beethoven's _____ formed a musical
legacy which was wrestled
with by every composer for the rest of the nineteenth century.
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a. Sonatas
b. Sonatinas
c. String quartets
d. Symphonies
e. None of these.
The Romantic Period saw its earliest manifestations in literature
during the 1770s, when
the _____ movement--a conscious reaction against what was
then considered the
restraining influences of Classicism - began in Germany.
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Student
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a. Hals und Beinbruch
b. Stolz und Demutigkeit
c. Sturm und Drang
d. Feuer und Holz
e. Steinweg und Sohne
An aspect of Romantic musical style which is contrastive to
Classical style is:
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a. a greater emphasis on
chromaticism.
b
.

the use of programmatic titles.
c. music is considered more
expressive than text.
d
.
All of these.
e. None of these.
Franz Schubert is an important composer of the early Romantic
period, whose fame rests
primarily on his composition of over 600 _____.
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a. songs
b. sonatas
c. string quartets
d. symphonies
e. None of these

Schubert also wrote 9 _____, including the famous
"Unfinished".
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Student
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Answer Choices
a. songs
b. sonatas
c. string quartets
d. symphonies
e. None of these
Like Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn was an important early
Romantic composer. Among
his claims to fame, he reintroduced the world to the music of
_____.
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Student
Response

Answer Choices
a. J. S. Bach.
b. Beethoven.
c. Haydn.
d. Mozart.
e. None of these.
Mendelssohn composed a total of _____ symphonies.
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a. 5
b. 6
c. 7
d. 8
e. 9

Mendelssohn wrote several oratorios, among them the oratorio
_____ (which we heard
listening examples of during Trip 5).
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a. Abraham
b. Elijah
c. Isaac
d. Isaiah
e. None of these.
Besides his symphonic and choral works, Mendelssohn wrote
Incidental Music for
several plays, among them _____ by Shakespeare.
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Student
Response

Answer Choices
a. Romeo and Juliet
b. Richard III
c. Much Ado about Nothing
d. The Merry Wives of Windsor
e. None of these.
General feedback: A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Beethoven worked out his compositional ideas at the _____.
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a. cello
b. piano
c. trumpet
d. violin

e. None of these
It has been truly said that to understand Mozart one must
understand his operas; to
understand Beethoven, one must understand his:
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a. sonatas.
b. string quartets.
c. symphonies.
d. All of these.
e. None of these.
An important patron of Beethoven, who told him "Receive from
Haydn the spirit of
Mozart", was:
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Student

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a. Baron von Richtoven.
b. Count Chocula.
c. Duke Weimar.
d. Earl von Sachsen.
e. None of these.
General feedback: Baron von Swieten, a patron of the arts and
friend to Mozart, Haydn
and Beethoven.
QUIZ 6
By 1800, most operas were written in the wildly popular _____
style.
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a. Florentine

b. Neapolitan
c. Opera buffa
d. Opera seria
e. None of these.
The greatest composer of the early 1800s in the operatic style
mentioned in the preceding
question (#1) was:
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Student
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Answer Choices
a. Bach.
b. Beethoven.
c. Haydn.
d. Mozart.
e. None of these.
Weber, Bellini and Donizetti were all famous composers in the

_____ style.
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Student
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a. bel canto
b. bellissima
c. dolce vita
d. verissimo
e. None of these.
Chopin is known as a _____ composer (his mother was of
_____descent), even though
his father was French and he spent most of his adult life in
France.
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Student
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a. Austrian
b. Czech
c. German
d. Hungarian
General feedback: His mother was Polish, he was born in
Poland, and his heart is buried
in a marble obelisk in the Church of the Sacred Heart in
Warsaw.
In accordance with Chopin's wishes, at his memorial each year
_____ is performed.
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Beethoven's Ode to Joy
b. Handel's Messiah
c. Monteverdi's Vespers
d. Mozart's Requiem

e. None of these.
Chopin is quite different from composers who preceded him,
inasmuch as he chose to
write almost exclusively for the _____
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. ballet.
b. opera.
c. string quartet.
d. symphony.
e. None of these.
General feedback: Chopin wrote almost exclusively for the
piano.
German composer Robert Schumann embodied the Romantic
spirit. He married _____,

one of the greatest pianists of her day.
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Brunnhilde von Metz
b. Hilde Einegard
c. Monika Bruhn
d. Viktoria Eisengarten
e. None of these.
General feedback: Clara Wieck was a famous concert pianist
touring Europe when
Schumann met her; after they wed, she gave up her career to
support
him.
Schumann was one of the first composers to publish his own
magazine to promote his
ideas about music, it was called:
Response
Student

Response
Answer Choices
a. Die alte Schrift.
b. Die neue Wiener Tagblatt.
c. Die Zeit.
d. Die Heilige Schrifte.
e. None of these.
Which of these is NOT a collection of piano pieces by Robert
Schumann?
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Carnaval
b
.
Children's Corner

c. Fantastic Pieces
d
.
Forest Scenes
e. None of these are collections
by Schumann.
General feedback: Children's Corner is a suite of six piano
pieces by Claude Debussy,
whose music we'll learn about later in the course.
Like Schubert before him, Schumann distinguished himself as a
composer of German art-
songs known as _____
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Gedichte.
b. Geschichte.
c. Lieber.
d. Lieder.

e. None of these.
Hector Berlioz was an innovator, considered the greatest _____
of his day.
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. opera singer
b. orchestrator
c. conductor
d. choreographer
e. None of these.
Berlioz' most famous work is:
Response
Student
Response

Answer Choices
a. Ave Maria.
b. Le Damnation de Faust.
c. Les Sylphides.
d. Symphonie Fantastique.
e. None of these.
Franz Liszt was considered a great instrumental _____
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. composer.
b. opera star.
c. singer.
d. virtuoso.
e. None of these.

Along with Liszt, a famous violinist of his day was Niccolo
_____
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Dmitri.
b. Kerkavich.
c. Paganini.
d. Skrowaczewski.
e. None of these.
Liszt was a prolific composer, second only to _____
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices

a. Bach.
b. Beethoven.
c. Haydn.
d. Mozart.
e. None of these.
Along with _____, Richard Wagner is the most important
composer of the 19th century.
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Bach
b. Beethoven
c. Mendelssohn
d. Schubert
e. None of these.
Wagner wrote more about _____ than he did about music.

Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. philosophy
b. politics
c. social commentary
d. All of these.
e. None of these.
During the 1830s, Wagner wrote three operas in the style of:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Bellini.
b. Meyerbeer.

c. Weber.
d. All of these.
e. None of these.
Among Wagner's important operas written during the 1840s are:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Die Walkure
b. Die Zauberflote
c. Die Zigeunerbaron
d. All of these.
e. None of these.
During his exile in Switzerland, Wagner laid out his concepts
for the future of opera in a
treatise called:

Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Hals und Beinbruch
b. Oper und Drama
c. Sturm und Drang
d. Zeit und Zeitgeist
e. None of these.
Wagner's called his concept of a having short musical ideas or
themes that are linked to a
character, event or emotion in the drama:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Buhnensprache.
b. Ewige Melodie.
c. Gesamtkunstwerk.

d. Leitmotif.
e. None of these.
Wagner drew his subject matter for the Ring Cycle from:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Greek Mythology.
b
.
Grimm's Fairy Tales.
c. Norse Mythology.
d
.
The Legends of the Teutonic
Knights.
e. None of these.

There are a total of _____ operas in Wagner's Ring Cycle.
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
e. 5
Which of these is NOT an opera from Wagner's Ring Cycle?
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Das Rheingold

b. Die Walkure
c. Gotterdammerung
d. Siegfried
e. Tannhauser
Wagner's most important patron was:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Duke Ernst of Prussia.
b. Duke Ferdinand of Saxony.
c. King Leopold I of Austria.
d. King Ludwig II of Bavaria.
e. None of these.
During his lifetime, an honor was accorded to Wagner
unprecedented in the history of

music: the building of a special edifice in the city of _____,
created solely for the
performance of Wagner's operas.
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Baden
b. Bamberg
c. Bayreuth
d. Berchtesgaden
e. Berlin
The edifice erected in the city listed in number 26 above was
named as a:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Festspielhaus

b. Palazzo
c. Schloss
d. Tiergarten
e. None of these.
Wagner's last opera is based on:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. the history of King Arthur.
b. the sagas of the Norsemen.
c. the epic of the last Crusade.
d. the legend of the Holy Grail.
e. German folklore.
The title of Wagner's last opera is:

Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Braveheart.
b. Reinhardt.
c. Parsifal.
d. Reichenfall.
e. None of these.
In terms of its impact on future generations of composers,
Wagner's opera _____ is his
most significant work; providing a point of departure for future
composers, who used it
as justification for their own journeys into avant-garde.
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Peter und das Wolf

b. Romeo und Juliet
c. Siegfried und das Rheingold
d. Sigmund und Sieglinde
e. Tristan und Isolde
QUIZ 7
The second half of the nineteenth century saw growing _____
movements in most
European countries.
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. communist
b. fascist
c. nationalist
d. socialist
e. None of these.

The first noteworthy American classical composer was:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Frederic Chopin.
b. Franz Liszt.
c. Edvard Grieg.
d. Edgar Allen Poe.
e. None of these.
General feedback: Edward MacDowell is the first noteworthy
American composer; the
so-called "Father of American Music" title goes to Charles Ives,
whom we discuss later in a Trip devoted to American music.
Edvard Grieg was born in:
Response
Student

Response
Answer Choices
a. New Hampshire.
b. New York.
c. Norway.
d. Nova Scotia.
e. None of these.
Among Grieg's most famous works:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Lyric Pieces for piano.
b. Piano Concerto in A minor.
c. Peer Gynt Suite for orchestra.

Dvorak was of _____ descent.
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Croatian
b. Czech
c. Hungarian
d. Rumanian
e. None of these.
While visiting the United States, Dvorak composed his "_____"
Symphony No. 9.
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices

a. American
b. European
c. New World
d. Old World
e. None of these.
Like Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer came from a distinguished Jewish
family and was born in
_____.
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Berlin
b. London
c. Paris
d. Vienna
e. None of these.

The success of the opera entitled _____ brought Meyerbeer
international acclaim.
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Il Crociato in Egitto
b. Le Prophète
c. Les Huguenots
d. Robert le Diable
e. None of these.
Which of these is NOT an opera by Meyerbeer?
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices

a. Les Hugeunots
b
.
Les Sylphides
c. L'africaine
d
.
Le Prophète
e. All of these are operas by
Meyerbeer.
General feedback: Les Sylphides is a ballet with music by
Chopin; the other three titles
are all listed in Trip 7 as Meyerbeer operas.
Meyerbeer was the target of an anti-Semitic essay written by:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Jules Massenet.

b. Camille Saint-Saens.
c. Richard Strauss.
d. Richard Wagner.
e. None of these.
Georges Bizet's fame rests on a single work, _____, an all-time
favorite of opera goers.
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Don Giovanni
b. Don Escamillio
c. Carmen
d. Daphine
e. None of these.
General feedback: If you were picking your very first opera to
see, I would recommend
this one.

The opera "The Barber of Seville" was written by:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Meyerbeer.
b. Rossini.
c. Verdi.
d. Wagner.
e. None of these.
Gioacchino Rossini was one of the greatest and most popular
_____ composers of all
time.
Response
Student
Response

Answer Choices
a. opera
b. oratorio
c. string quartet
d. symphony
e. None of these.
Among Rossini's most famous works is:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Daphne and Chloe.
b. William Shakespeare.
c. William Tell.
d. Zeus and Apollo.
e. None of these.

Along with Wagner, the greatest opera composer of his day was:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Cavalli.
b. Corelli.
c. Handel.
d. Verdi.
e. None of these.
Which of these is NOT an opera by Giuseppi Verdi?
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Aida

b
.
Canaletto
c. Otello
d
.
Rigoletto
e. All of these are operas by
Verdi.
Verdi's last opera is entitled:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Falstaff.
b. Faust.
c. Il Egitto.
d. Il Paisano.
e. None of these.

Verdi sums up his life philosophy in the vocal quartet from his
last opera
which translates roughly into English as:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. All's well that ends well.
b
.
Behind every cloud, there's a
silver lining.
c. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
d
.
Life is meant to be jolly.
e. None of these.
Both the ascent of _____ and the emergence of Musical
Nationalism occurred during the

second half of the nineteenth Century.
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Italian Light Opera
b. Romantic Grand Opera
c. Symphonic composition
d. Socialist music
e. None of these.
Another trend taking place during the second half of the
Nineteenth Century was the
emergence of a group of composers known as _____.
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices

a. Les Six.
b
.
The Sturm und Drang
composers.
c. The Dirty Dozen.
d
.
The Post-Wagnerians.
e. None of these.
QUIZ 8
Brahms' music can be characterized as an attempt to:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. infuse Classical form with
Romantic expressivity.
b
.

master the Symphonic Genre.
c. reject the legacy of Beethoven.
d
.
embrace Wagnerian ideals in
music.
e. None of these.
Brahms works include:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. "A German Requiem".
b. Four symphonies.
c. Numerous songs.
d. All of these.
e. 1 and 2 only.

Brahms was almost _____ years old when he published his
First Symphony.
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. 10
b. 20
c. 30
d. 40
e. 50
Many of the short lyric pieces for piano Brahms published in
Opus 116-119, including
the listening examples, are entitled:
Response
Student
Response

Answer Choices
a. ballades.
b. intermezzos.
c. scherzos.
d. sonatas.
e. None of these.
Along with the Lullaby, Brahms most famous work is:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. The opera Deutschland.
b. The cantata Ein feste Burg.
c. The German Symphony No. 5.
d. The Hungarian Dance No. 5.
e. None of these.

The school of classical music composition in Russia began with
the work of:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Mikhail Glinka.
b. Mikhail Gorbachev.
c. Peter the Great.
d. Peter Ustinov.
e. None of these.
Besides Borodin, a great composer of the second generation in
Russia was:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices

a. Popov-Smirnoff.
b. Rimsky-Korsakov.
c. Sviatoslav Richter.
d. Sergei Seryeivich.
e. None of these.
Besides his ballet music, Pyotr Tschaikowsky is also known for
his:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Piano Concerto.
b. Symphonies.
c. Violin Concerto.
d. All of these.
e. None of these.

Listening to Tschaikowsky's music, elements of _____ can be
heard.
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Brass band music
b. French folk music
c. German polka music
d. Italian street songs
e. None of these.
An interesting story about the Tschaikowsky Piano Concerto
centers around American
pianist:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices

a. George Gershwin.
b. Oscar Levant.
c. Oscar Peterson.
d. Van Cliburn.
e. None of these.
Tschaikowsky drops his mask to bare his tortured soul in the
final movement of his
_____ Symphony, the "Tragic".
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. First
b. Third
c. Fifth
d. Seventh
e. None of these.

Which of these is NOT part of the music for the Nutcracker
ballet?
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Chinese Dance
b. French Dance
c. Russian Dance
d. Dance of the Reed Flutes
e. Waltz of the Flowers
The famous Tschaikowsky orchestral work the 1812 Overture
includes
as part of its orchestration the use of a:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices

a. cannon.
b. string of firecrackers.
c. gong.
d. volley of live gunfire.
e. None of these.
Anton Bruckner was important as a teacher; among his famous
pupils was:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Gustav Mahler.
b. Richard Strauss.
c. Hugo Wolf.
d. All of these.
e. 1 and 3 Only.

Bruckner was also renowned as a(an):
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. flutist.
b. harpsichordist.
c. organist.
d. painter.
e. sculptor.
Like Beethoven and Dvorak, Bruckner:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. announced his devotion to
Brahms.

b
.
became deaf in his later years.
c. composed nine symphonies.
d
.
drank heavily.
e. None of these.
Hugo Wolf carried on the tradition of the _____, bringing it to
new heights of
expressiveness.
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. French ballet
b. German lied
c. Italian opera
d. Russian Orthodox music

e. None of these.
Wolf is almost exclusively remembered for the beauty of his
_____
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. sonatinas.
b. serenades.
c. scherzoes.
d. nocturnes.
e. None of these.
Richard Strauss is most famous for his _____
Response
Student

Response
Answer Choices
a. operas.
b. symphonies.
c. tone poems.
d. All of these.
e. 1. and 3. only.
Gustav Mahler's fame rests on his nine _____ (the 10th is
incomplete).
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. operas
b. symphonies
c. tone poems
d. All of these.
e. 1. and 3. Only.

QUIZ 9
User ID: trkhon72 Attempt: 1 / 1 Out of: 40
Started: January 22, 2007
4:23pm
Finished: January 22, 2007
4:46pm
Time spent: 23 min. 21
sec.
Student finished 6 min. 39 sec. ahead of the 30 min. time limit.
The composer known as the Waltz King was:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Johann Strauss, Jr.
b. Johann Strauss, Sr.
c. Levi Strauss.

d. Richard Strauss.
e. None of these.
The composer mentioned in #1 above composed over _____
waltzes [note: only the most
accurate answer will be considered correct].
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. 200
b. 400
c. 600
d. 800
e. 1000
The European city that became known as "The Waltz Capital of
the World" was:

Response Response
a. Berlin.
b. Bonn.
c. Budapest.
d. Byzantium.
e. None of these.
The title of Strauss' most famous waltz is:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Sixteen Going on Seventeen.
b. Edelweiss.
c. The Blue Danube.
d. Die Fledermaus.

The British duo of Gilbert & Sullivan excelled in the writing of:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. symphonies.
b. sinfoniettas.
c. operas.
d. operettas.
e. None of these.
Gabriel Faure could rightfully be called
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. The first significant French
composer

b
.
The father of modern French
music
c. The finest opera composer in
France in his day
d
.
The French Wagner
e. None of these.
Faure is noted for the beauty and lyricism of his
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. operas
b. songs
c. sonatas

d. symphonies
e. None of these.
Faure's _____ is considered his finest choral work.
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Mass in B minor
b. Magnificat
c. Vespers
d. Ave Sancta Spiritus
e. None of these.
The seminal event which profoundly impacted Debussy's music
was:
Response
Student
Response

Answer Choices
a. His rejection of the hierarchy
of triads.
b
.
Encountering Javanese
gamelan music at the World's
Fair.
c. Discovering the lost works of
J. S. Bach.
d
.
His contact with Italian music
during his travels in Italy.
e. None of these.
The terms pentatonic and whole-tone in Debussy's music refer
to:
Response
Student
Response

Answer Choices
a. Non-traditional chords.
b
.
Non-traditional scales.
c. New musical forms he
pioneered.
d
.
Tertian harmony.
e. None of these.
Debussy abandoned the concept of _____ as defined by Western
harmonic practices; in
the process, he redefined Western thinking about harmony.
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. cadences

b. chords
c. scales
d. structure
e. None of these.
The new sounds of Debussy's music came to be referred to as
musical:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Abstractivism.
b. Dadaism.
c. Expressionism.
d. Impressionism.
e. Surrealism.
Which of these is NOT composed by Debussy?

Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Suite Bergamesque
b
.
La Mer
c. Images
d
.
Preludes
e. All of these are works by
Debussy.
Some of the Spanish influence in French composer Maurice
Ravel's music can be traced
to his ethnic heritage: his mother was of _____ descent, and he
was born and lived near
the _____ region of Spain.
Response

Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Basque
b. Catalonia
c. Granada
d. Sevilla
e. None of these.
Ravel was one of the first classical composers to embrace _____
idioms which emanated
from America.
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Folk
b. Jazz

c. Native American
d. Rock
e. None of these.
Which of these is NOT a work composed by Ravel?
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Clair de Lune
b
.
Gaspard de la Nuit
c. Pavane pour une Infante
defunte (Pavane for a Dead
Princess)
d
.
Bolero

Maurice Ravel.
Erik Satie is most famous for:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. his compositions.
b. his writings and caricatures.
c. his paintings.
d. his operatic voice.
e. None of these.
Though many French composers in the 19th century embraced
German Romanticism, the
general attitude of French intellectuals towards German
Romanticism was:
Response

Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. they abhorred German cultural
hegemony.
b
.
they found it "impossibly
ponderous".
c. they parodied it as "excessive"
or "obtuse".
d
.
All of these.
e. None of these.
At the age of 18, Debussy was awarded _____ in Paris.
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices

a. The Iron Cross
b. The Grand Prix
c. The Medal of Honor
d. The Legion du Honeur
e. None of these.
A famous Gilbert and Sullivan operetta is:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Die Fledermaus.
b
.
The Beautiful, Blue Danube.
c. The Lion, the Witch, and the
Wardrobe.
d
.
The Pirates of Penzance.

e. None of these.
QUIZ 10
4:50pm
5:17pm
sec.
The general attitude of late nineteenth-century European society
was:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. ambient.
b. furtive.

c. optimistic.
d. pessimistic.
e. None of these.
A growing arms race between _____ and _____ exacerbated
growing tensions on the
Continent.
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Britain, France
b. Britain, Germany
c. France, Germany
d. France, Russia
e. Germany, Russia
The total loss of life in World War I exceeded: (only the closest
correct answer will be
counted as correct)

Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. over two million.
b. over four million.
c. over six million.
d. over eight million.
e. over ten million.
The reaction to the war led to an artistic movement known as:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Extroversion.
b. Introversion.

c. Expressionism.
d. Impressionism.
The term "Second Viennese School" refers to:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. the next generation of waltz
composers after Johann
Strauss, Jr.
b
.
the work of Arnold Schonberg
and his followers.
c. the followers of Johannes
Brahms in Vienna.
d
.
the followers of Eduard

Hanslick in Vienna.
e. None of these.
Chromaticism, which had already been pushed to extreme limits
in Wagner's Tristan, was
completely unraveled by this 1899 composition:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Berg's Lulu.
b
.
Mahler's Sixth Symphony.
c. Schonberg's Verklarte Nacht.
d
.
Webern's Symphonic
Variations.

e. None of these.
Schonberg's transitional compositional period, in which tonality
was abandoned, is
known as his _____ period.
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. achordal
b. atonal
c. non-musical
d. zero-tonal
e. None of these.
His most important work during the period mentioned in #7
above was entitled:
Response
Student
Response

Answer Choices
a. Albert Giraud.
b. Alfred Cortot.
c. Arnold Piraud.
d. Austin Pyrreaux.
e. None of these.
The term "Sprechstimme" refers to:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. a staged event in a Schonberg
vocal work.
b
.
a style of singing in-between
speech and song.

c. a movement that emphasized
facial features when singing.
d
.
an actor who prompts the
singers from backstage.
e. None of these.
In abandoning tonality completely, Schonberg wrote his own set
of "rules" on how music
was now to be composed; this new style of music, and the
"rules" which accompanied it,
are referred to as:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Chromaticism.
b. Diatonicism.
c. Hexachordalism.
d. Pentatonicism.
e. None of these.

The organization of the twelve tones of the chromatic scale into
a pre-specified order is
an important aspect of the compositional style mentioned in #10
above: this process, or
ordering of tones, results in a construction referred to as a:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. ball.
b. line.
c. row.
d. set.
e. None of these.
Schonberg's most important dramatic work was the opera:
Response

Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Elijah.
b. Israel in Egypt.
c. Messiah.
d. Moses und Aaron.
e. None of these.
Alban Berg's first opera was based, in part, upon his own
military service during World
War I, an experience he called:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. "exhilarating".
b. "my finest hour".
c. "service to the Fatherland".
d. "too degrading to recount".

e. None of these.
The title of Berg's opera mentioned in #13 above was:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Leila.
b. Lulu.
c. Werther.
d. Wozzeck.
e. None of these.
Berg's contemporary Anton Webern also followed Schonbergian
models; unlike Berg,
however, Webern's music retains a(n):
Response

Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Randomness of chance
elements.
b
.
Intense emotional expressivity.
c. Economy of means.
d
.
Grand scale of Romantic style.
e. None of these.
Webern followed the Schonbergian concept of:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Bremsenoten.

b
.
Fahrvergnugen.
c. Klangfarbenmelodie.
d
.
Viertelpfunderverpflichtigkeit.
e. Zehntausendneunhundertachtundachtzig.
The concept mentioned in #16 above refers to:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. bisecting the row by multiples
of 2 on each successive
occurrence.
b
.
categorizing each of the notes
based on volume and length.

c. leaving off one note of the row
every other time it occurs.
d supplying successive tones of
. the row to different
instruments.
e. the practice of stringing notes
like words are joined in the
German language.
Webern's most important works are his:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. symphonic pieces.
b. chamber music.
c. songs.
d. All of these.
e. None of these.

During his years in the United States, Schonberg was affiliated
with:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Columbia University.
b
.
The University of California,
Los Angeles (UCLA).
c. The University of Southern
California (USC).
d
.
All of these
e. 2. and 3. Only.
Arnold Schonberg's archives are currently located:

Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. at Columbia.
b. at UCLA.
c. at USC.
d. in Vienna.
e. None of these.
QUIZ 11
5:19pm
5:41pm
sec.

A major school of Russian Modernist musical composition was
based in:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Kiev.
b. London.
c. Moscow.
d. St. Petersburg.
e. Vladivostok.
After the Russian Revolution, many Soviet composers migrated
to other countries;
among those who remained was:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices

a. Aram Khachaturian.
b. Dmitri Kabalevsky.
c. Dmitri Shostakovich.
d. All of these.
e. None of these.
Together with Arnold Schonberg, _____ is the most important
composer of the twentieth
century
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Sergei Prokofiev
b. Dmitri Shostakovich
c. Igor Stravinsky
d. Pyotr Tschaikowsky
e. None of these.

The choreographer/director of a renowned Russian ballet troupe
during the early 1900s
was:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Sergei Diaghelev.
b. Asher Lev.
c. Sergei Mendleyev.
d. Mischa Sturyevevich.
e. None of these.
Which of these is NOT a ballet for which Stravinsky wrote
music:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices

a. Petrouchka.
b
.
The Rite of Spring.
c. L'oiseau de feu (The Firebird).
d
.
Stravinsky wrote music for
none of these.
e. Stravinsky wrote music for all
of these.
Stravinsky's breakthrough work - which was so controversial
that a riot broke out after its
premiere--was:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Petrouchka.

b. The Rite of Spring
c. L'oiseau de feu (The Firebird).
d. Les noces.
e. None of these.
The new style called neoclassicism pioneered by Stravinsky
featured:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. clarity of sound and form.
b
.
avoidance of chromaticism and
Romantic style.
c. mostly dissonant harmony.
d
.
reference to pre-19th century

materials or forms.
e. All of these.
Which of these is NOT an important work of Stravinsky's
neoclassical period?
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Symphonies for Wind
Instruments
b
.
Octet
c. Oedipus Rex
d
.
Symphony of Psalms
e. All of these are important
works of Stravinsky's
neoclassical period.

An important later Stravinsky work modeled on 14th and 15th
century models was:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Laudate Dominum.
b. Mass.
c. Qui Tollis.
d. Veni Creator Spiritus.
e. Veni Sancta Spiritus.
Always innovative in trying on new styles, in his 70s Stravinsky
turned to the one style
he'd not yet attempted:
Response
Student
Response

Answer Choices
a. French Impressionism.
b. German Romanticism.
c. Russian Mysticism.
d. Schonbergian Serialism.
e. None of these.
Prokofiev composed ballet music to the same subject his
Russian predecessor
Tschaikowsky had written music for some years before; that
subject was:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Romeo and Juliet.
b. Samson and Delilah.
c. Tristan and Isolde.
d. Vladimir and Anastasia.

e. None of these.
Prokofiev wrote music for a famous Russian folk tale entitled:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Death and the Maiden.
b. Prince Igor's Feast.
c. Peter and the Wolf.
d. Sascha and Ivan.
e. None of these.
Prokofiev composed _____ piano concertos.
Response
Student
Response

Answer Choices
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
e. 5
Prokofiev composed _____ piano sonatas.
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. 6
b. 7
c. 8
d. 9
e. 10

Prokofiev is also famous for his _____ Concerto.
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Baroque..
b. Classical.
c. Romantic.
d. Warsaw.
e. None of these.
QUIZ 12
5:44pm
6:02pm
sec.

Which of these was NOT a French Romantic composer?
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Claude Debussy
b
.
Vincent D'Indy
c. Cesar Franck
d
.
Jules Massenet
e. All of these are French
Romantic composers.
Camille Saint-Saens wrote in a _____ style.
Response

Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Classical
b. Neoclassical
c. Romantic
d. Serialist
e. None of these.
Saint-Saens Symphony No. 3 is also called the _____
Symphony.
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Organ
b. Reformation
c. Revolutionary

d. Scottish
e. None of these.
A parody work never intended for public performance is Saint-
Saens':
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Carnival of the Animals.
b. Parade of the Jesters.
c. Secret Lives of Elaine.
d. Wild, Wild West.
e. None of these.
The most famous piece from the work mentioned in #4 above is
entitled "The Swan", and
features a beautiful solo for the:
Response

Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Bassoon.
b. Cello.
c. Harp.
d. Organ.
e. Violin.
Giacomo Puccini was most renowned as a composer of _____
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. oratorios.
b. symphonies.
c. sonatas.

d. string quartets.
e. None of these.
The plot of _____ deals with an ill-fated love affair between an
American naval officer
and a Japanese woman.
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Aida
b. Madame Butterfly
c. Tosca
d. Turandot
e. None of these.
One of the most famous arias of all time, "Nessun dorma",
which has been recorded by
singers from Luciano Pavarotti to Michael Bolton, is from the
Puccini opera:

Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Aida.
b. Madame Butterfly.
c. Tosca.
d. Turandot.
e. None of these.
The Puccini opera which sets the heroine and her lover Mario
against a backdrop of the
Napoleonic Wars is:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Aida.

c. Tosca.
d. Turandot.
e. None of these.
The Puccini opera set in China which features a plot in which
the suitor seeking the hand
of the Princess has to answer three questions correctly or lose
his life is:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Aida.
c. Tosca.
d. Turandot.
e. None of these.
For his Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Rachmaninoff used:

Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. a rhapsody form.
b. a rondo form.
c. a symphony form.
d. a theme and variations form.
e. None of these.
One of the sections of the Rhapsody was used as part of the
soundtrack for the movie:
Response Response
a. Sleepless in Seattle.
b. Somewhere in Time.
c. Titanic.
d. All of these.

e. None of these.
Rachmaninoff's music uses elements of Russian folk music and
_____ liturgical chants.
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Byzantine.
b. Catholic.
c. Jewish.
d. Orthodox.
e. None of these.
Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto was written for what
occasion?
Response
Student
Response

Answer Choices
a. His first trip to England
b
.
His first trip to the United
States
c. His second tour of Europe
d
.
His triumphal return to Russia
e. None of these.
Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto is prominently featured in
the Academy-Award
winning movie:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices

a. The Competition.
b. Days of Wine and Roses.
c. The Piano.
d. Shine.
e. None of these.
QUIZ 13
6:23pm
6:50pm
sec.
Charles Ives is renowned as:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices

a. America's first avant-garde
composer.
b
.
"The Father of American
classical music".
c. an eclectic whose music
eventually was recognized as
innovative.
d
.
All of these.
e. None of these.
Ives experimented with:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Chromaticism

b. Microtonality
c. Polytonality
d. All of these.
e. B and C only.
Charles Griffes was labeled:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. "The Last of the Mohicans".
b. "The American Impressionist".
c. "The Guru of the Keyboard".
d. "An American in Paris".
e. None of these.
_____ is usually cited as "the birthplace of jazz".

Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Chicago
b. Memphis
c. New Orleans
d. New York
e. St. Louis
Jazz incorporates musical elements of the _____ tradition.
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. African
b. Caribbean
c. European

d. All of these.
e. None of these.
Ragtime music was featured at the turn of the century in New
York's _____ District.
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Broadway
b. Brooklyn Bar
c. Nightclub
d. Swing Quarter
e. Tin Pan Alley
Irving Berlin's song "Alexander's Ragtime Band"
Response
Student

Response
Answer Choices
a. revealed a huge potential
market for music sales.
b
.
sold over 6 million copies.
c. helped birth the music industry
in America.
d
.
All of these.
e. None of these.
One of the greatest ragtime composers of all time was:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Stephen Foster.

b. Charles Griffes.
c. Charles Ives.
d. Scott Joplin.
e. None of these.
A 1970s hit movie which revived interest in ragtime music was:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. "Ragtime".
b. "The Great Gatsby".
c. "The Wright Brothers".
d. "Chaplin".
e. None of these.
Scott Joplin was the first African-American composer to
receive:

Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. the Presidential Medal of
Honor.
b
.
the Grand Prix du Rome.
c. the knighthood of St. Alban.
d
.
the Academy Award for Best
Score.
e. None of these.
Louis Armstrong:
Response
Student
Response

Answer Choices
a. has been called "The King of
Jazz".
b
.
is one of the greatest musicians
of all time.
c. was nicknamed "Satchmo".
d
.
All of these.
e. None of these.
Which of these is NOT an important jazz work performed by
Louis Armstrong?
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices

a. Creole Junction Blues
b. Potato Head Blues
c. St. Louis Blues
d. Weather Bird
e. West End Blues
George Gershwin began his career as a:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Bootlegger
b. Liquor runner
c. Song plugger
d. Tailor
e. Peanut vendor
Gershwin attempted to infuse classical form with _____
elements.

Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Bebop
b. Boogie
c. Jazz
d. Ragtime
e. Rockabilly
Which of these is NOT an important orchestral work by George
Gershwin?
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. American in Paris

b
.
Amsterdam Suite
c. Concerto in F
d
.
Rhapsody in Blue
e. All of these are orchestral
works by George Gershwin.
George Gershwin's only opera, Porgy and Bess:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. starred Gene Kelly in the
movie version.
b
.
sought to more realistically
portray African-American life
of that period.

c. featured the use of symphonic
form.
d
.
is set in Florida.
e. All of these.
Which of these is NOT a song written by George and Ira
Gershwin?
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. I'm in the Mood for Love
b
.
I Got Rhythm
c. Love Walked In
d

.
Our Love is Here to Stay
e. All of these are songs written
by George and Ira Gershwin
Which of these is NOT a song featured in Porgy and Bess?
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Bess, You Is My Woman Now
b
.
Come to me, Porgy
c. It Ain't Necessarily So
d
.
Summertime
e. All of these are songs from
Porgy and Bess.

Gershwin's American in Paris was made into a movie featuring:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Fred Astaire
b. Bing Crosby
c. Gene Kelly
d. Frank Sinatra
e. None of these.
Charles Griffes' work "The White Peacock" shows the influence
of:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices

a. Claude Debussy.
b. French musical impressionism.
c. ragtime.
d. all of the above.
e. a and b only.
Total score: 40 / 40 = 100.0%
QUIZ 14
6:21pm
6:51pm
sec.
What important historical event took place during the 1930s?
Response
Student

Response
Answer Choices
a. The Dust Bowl era.
b
.
The Great Depression.
c. The Golden Days of
Hollywood.
d
.
All of these.
e. None of these.
This same time period saw the rise of the European dictator:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Franco.

b. Hitler.
c. Mussolini.
d. Stalin.
e. All of these.
Erich von Korngold:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. was a leading film composer
of Hollywood's Golden Age
b
.
considered a career as an actor
before turning to music.
c. chose to reside in Austria
rather than America.
d
.

All of these.
e. None of these.
Korngold won the Best Film Score Oscar for:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Captain Blood.
b
.
The Adventures of Robin
Hood.
c. The Sea Hawk.
d
.
All of these.
e. A and B only.

The world's first ethnomusicologist was:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Bela Bartok.
b. Johannes Brahms.
c. George Gershwin.
d. Pyotr Tschaikowsky.
e. None of these.
Which of these is NOT a work by Bartok?
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Mikrokosmos
b

.
Music for Strings, Percussion
and Celeste
c. Duke Bluebeard's Castle
d
.
Concerto for Orchestra
Bartok.
The German composer Paul Hindemith coined the term _____,
suggesting accessible
music which would appeal to even the most common listener.
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Gebrauchsmusik
b. Gesamtkunstwerk
c. Klangfarbenmelodie
d. Leitmotif

e. Sprechstimme
The term "Les Six" was coined by French poet and playwright:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Collet.
b. David.
c. Henri.
d. Rameau.
e. Rousseau.
Which of these contemporary French composers is a member of
"Les Six"?
Response
Student

Response
Answer Choices
a. Honegger
b
.
Milhaud
c. Poulenc
d
.
None of these are members of
"Les Six".
e. All of these are members of
"Les Six".
Which of these is NOT an important 20th century English
composer?
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Benjamin Britten

b
.
Edward Elgar
c. Gustav Holst
d
.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
e. All of these are important 20th
century English composers
Of all his compositions, Gustav Holst is most famous for the
work:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. 2001: A Space Odyssey.
b. The Planet of the Apes.
c. Desiderata.

d. Extra-Terrestrial.
e. None of these.
Aaron Copland is a leading 20th Century American composer;
which of these is
NOT a leading 20th Century American composer?
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Elliott Carter
b
.
Roy Harris
c. Walter Piston
d
.
Roger Sessions
e. All of these are leading 20th
Century American composers.

The most popular form of jazz in America during the 1930s was
called _____, and this
time period is referred to as the _____ Era.
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Bebop
b. Boogie-Woogie
c. Rockabilly
d. Swing
e. None of these.
Which of these is NOT a great jazz musician mentioned in Trip
14?
Response
Student
Response

Answer Choices
a. Charlie Parker
b
.
Count Basie
c. John Coltrane
d
.
Miles Davis
e. All of these are jazz greats
mentioned in Trip 14.
The performing artist known as "Empress of the Blues" was:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Ella Fitzgerald.
b. Billie Holiday.

c. Ethel Merman.
d. Bessie Smith.
e. Kate Smith.
After World War II, _____ reemerged as an expression of
protest.
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Anti-war songs
b. Folk Music
c. Ragtime
d. All of these.
e. None of these.
Rock music emerged from _____ music.

Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Polka
b. Rhythm and blues
c. Swing
d. Tribal
e. None of these.
"Covering" a tune in the 1950s referred to the practice of:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. getting airplay for a new song
by changing its lyrics.
b
.
changing the rhythm of the

music to reach a wider
audience.
c. having white performers
perform songs written by black
musicians.
d
.
promoting a new song enough
to have it played on "American
Bandstand".
e. All of these.
The artist who first popularized rock n roll music most
successfully was:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Elvis Presley.
b. Fabian.
c. Frankie Avalon.
d. Ricky Nelson.

e. None of these.
It has been aptly said that along with Hollywood movies, rock
music is:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. America's most lucrative
industry.
b
.
America's most powerful
lobby.
c. America's greatest influence
on world culture.
d
.
America's only living art form.
e. All of these.

Total score: 40 / 40 = 100.0%
QUIZ 15
6:24pm
6:52pm
sec.
Karlheinz Stockhausen:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. revived interest in the music of
Richard Wagner.
b

.
opened a New School for
Music Study in Stockholm.
c. pioneered the composition of
electronic music.
d
.
All of these.
e. None of these.
Milton Babbitt:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. wrote exclusively for the
piano.
b
.
is considered a musical
conservative.

c. consciously rejected electronic
music and the avant-garde.
d
.
All of these.
e. None of these.
Luigi Dallipiccola and Luciano Berio explored:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. the serialization of all aspects
of music.
b
.
the importance of Italian
composers in the avant-garde
movement.
c. the music of Monteverdi as it
translated onto the synthesizer.
d

.
All of these.
e. None of these.
The compositional technique which includes randomness as a
constant is called:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Chance music.
b. Indeterminate music.
c. Aleatory composition.
John Cage's most famous work - which involved a period of
silence - is:

Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Blessed Silence.
b. Bliss.
c. Ode to Carl Jung.
d. The Four Stages of Zen.
e. None of these.
Steve Reich is famous as a composer of _____ music.
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Aleatory
b. Classical
c. Jazz

d. Minimalist
e. Serial
Among the important works of composer Philip Glass is:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. The Fried Potato.
b. Einstein on the Beach.
c. Nixon in Rio.
d. The Cascades.
e. Irreverent Behavior.
The effect of academic bias and elitism in American and
European universities created a
hostile climate in which students of music composition could
not receive positive
sanction for their works unless they were deemed by academics
to be:

Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. as good as Beethoven.
b. better than Bach.
c. completely original.
d. completely serialized.
e. None of these.
An important work by living composer John Adams is:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Kennedy vs. Castro.
b. Nixon in China.
c. Reagan in Moscow.

d. Rocky Revisited.
e. None of these.
The genius behind the Beach Boys, who wrote most of their
songs, is:
Response Response
a. Brian Epstein.
b. Brian Wilson.
c. Carl Wilson.
d. Dennis Wilson.
e. Wilson Phillips.
The Beach Boys' breakthrough album which pioneered new uses
of recording technology
was entitled:
Response
Student

Response
Answer Choices
a. Good Vibrations.
b. Help Me Rhonda.
c. Pet Sounds.
d. Surfin' Safari.
e. Surfin' USA.
The Beatles arrival in New York in the Spring of 1964 helped
Americans forget:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Dr. Martin Luther King.
b
.
Judeo-Christian ethics.
c. Kennedy's assassination.

d
.
Marilyn Monroe's untimely
death.
e. None of these.
The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and the Who are some of the
UK bands
that began arriving in America in the 1960s; this "onslaught"
was dubbed:
Response Response
a. The British Invasion.
b. The Normandy Invasion.
c. Revenge of the Boy Bands.
d. Custer's Last Stand.
e. None of these.
The Beatles spent six months in the studio, then in 1967
released the breakthrough album
_____, which featured classical and avant-garde elements and

along with the Beach
Boys' album (mentioned in #11 above), became the standard by
which all other rock
albums were measured.
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Magical Mystery Tour
b
.
Revolver
c. Rubber Soul
d
.
Sergeant Pepper's Lonely
Hearts Club Band
e. Yesterday, Today, and Forever
Which of these is not a great folk music artist of the 1960s?
Response

Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Joan Baez
b
.
Bob Dylan
c. Jimi Hendrix
d
.
Joni Mitchell
e. All of these are great folk
music artists of the 1960s.
An example of how the Beatles incorporated classical music
instruments into their songs
is:
Response
Student
Response

Answer Choices
a. A Day in the Life.
b. Eleanor Rigby.
c. Penny Lane.
d. The Fool on the Hill.
e. All of these.
In the 1950s, the first person to place an electronic pickup on an
acoustic guitar - hence
inventing the electric guitar - and manufacture it successfully
was:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. Leo Fender.
b. Bob Gibson.
c. Buddy Holly.
d. Les Paul.

e. Eddie Van Halen.
The breakthrough electronic instrument of the 1960s and 70s
was:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. The Mellotron.
b. The Moog Synthesizer.
c. The Hammond B-3 organ.
d. The Fender Rhodes piano.
e. None of these.
The acronym MIDI stands for:
Response
Student
Response

Answer Choices
a. Make It Difficult, Idiot!
b
.
Much Information,
DisIntegration.
c. Market It, Digest It.
d
.
Mind If I Don't smoke In here?
e. None of these.
The term "world music" refers to:
Response
Student
Response
Answer Choices
a. any non-Western music.
b
.

music of East Asia only.
c. the harmony of the planets
d
.
music of primitive cultures
only.
e. none of these.
Total score: 40 / 40 = 100.0%
--
Tino Khong

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