Music History

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INCLUDES MUSIC FROM THE ANCIENT GREEKS TO THE CONTEMPORARY ERA!

Question 1: In the times of the Greeks, the music was largely monophonic, but when it was performed, the music was played how?
homophonic
heterophonically
polyphonically

Question 2: This German abbess was also a famous composer, poet, and mystic during the Middle Ages.
Hildegard of Bingen
Lolita von Chapelinburg
Olga de Duchensberg

Question 3: Who composed the Pope Marcellus Mass during the Renaissance?
William Byrd
Josquin des Prez
Giovanni Pierlugi de Palestrina
Claudio Monteverdi

Question 4: The only type of Baroque composition that J.S. Bach did not experiment with was ___________.
fugues
cantatas
oratorios
opera
concertos

Question 5: Handel's most famous oratorio still to this day is probably ________________.
Judas Maccabeus
Elijah
The Messiah
Xerxes
Almira

Question 6: This Baroque composer was known as il prete rosso because of his red hair and his religious affiliation.
Antonio Vivaldi
J.S. Bach
Domenico Scarlatti
George F. Handel
Francois Couperin

Question 7: He composed the Surprise Symphony?
Ludwig van Beethoven
Franz J. Haydn
Antonio Salieri
Christoph W. Gluck
Wolfgang A. Mozart

Question 8: Wolfgang A. Mozart once remarked the "[he] will give the world something worth listening to."
Ludwig van Beethoven
Franz J. Haydn
Franz Liszt
Frederic Chopin

Question 9: Who composed the Turkish March, Also know as Rondo Alla Turca?
Antonio Salieri
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Felix Mendelssohn
Christoph W. Gluck

Question 10: He was known as the best composer of German Romantic opera.
Carl Maria von Weber
Camille Saint-Saens
Cesar Franck
Richard Wagner

Question 11: He was a very sensitive French/Polish composer who had a long time romantic relationship with the French writer George Sand.
G. Puccini
Frederic Chopin
Anton Webern
G. Rossinni
Franz Liszt

Question 12: Who composed the Hungarian Rhapsodies?
Franz Liszt
Piotr I. Tchaikovsky
Cesar Cui
Edvard Grieg
Alexander Bordin

Question 13: Who penned the term atonality?
J.S. Bach
Arnold Schoenberg
Anton Webern

Question 14: He is known as the French impressionist composer.
Frederic Chopin
Cesar Franck
Edvard Grieg
Claude Debussy

Question 15: Which of the following was written by Aaron Copland?
Porgy and Bess
Rites of Spring
Appalachian Spring
Clair de Lune

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