Music Quiz for Academic Decathlon
1)
In what year was Beethoven born?
a)
1750 b)
1770 c)
1760 d)
1780
2)
Beethoven wrote how many symphonies?
a)
3 b)
9 c)
5 d)
7
3)
This man was the 1st person to discover that musical pitches can be
determined with ratios.
a) Hertz
b) Bach
c) Mozart
d) Pythagoras
4)
This occurs when overlapping waves from 2 sounds are in phase,
that is the crests and the troughs match.
a) constructive interference
b) destructive interference
c) dissonance
d) consonance
5)
A _____ is a set of 5 horizontal lines and 4 intermediate spaces where notes
are written on.
a) clef
b) staff
c) measure
d) bar lines
6)
a) moderate; fast
b) moderate; slow
c) Very slow; very fast
d) Fast; slow
7)
If a time signature reads 4/4, what does this mean?
a) that the note will be played
4 times in 4 measures
b) that there will be 4 beats per
measure, and quarter notes receive one beat.
c) That there will be 2 beats
per measure, and half notes receive 2 beats.
d) None of the above.
8)
A _______ is lowest sounding instrument in an orchestra. It sits behind the
Cellos.
a) bass guitar
b) viola
c) tuba
d) contrabassoon
9)
______is the highest vocal range for a female.
a) Alto
b) Tenor
c) Baritone
d) Soprano
10)
The violin, viola, cello, and double bass are all part of the _________ family.
a) Idiophones
b) Membranophones
c) Chordophones
d) Aerophones
11)
The ______ period occurred between 1600 and 1750. Famous composers included
Bach, Handel, and Purcell. Famous forms included the Concerto, Fugue, and
Opera.
a) Renaissance
b) Middle Ages
c) Classical
d) Baroque
12)
Classical ideal in painting can be seen in whose painting?
a) Edward Munch’s “Starry
Night.”
b) Vincent Van Gogh’s “Night
Stars.”
c) Jacques Louis David’s “Death
of Socrates.”
d) Jean Miro’s “Potrait IV.”
13)
The Rococo style was made famous by which composer?
a) Francois Couperin
b) Johann Bach
c) Wolfgang Mozart
d) Domenico Scarlatti
14)
This movement was a variant of the galant movement during the Classical Period.
It was a “sensitive style” that held a romantic view of the arts during the
Classical era.
a) Sturm and Drang
b) Galant
c) Empfindsamer Stil
d) Sonata
15)
In Italian comic operas, a tenor voices usually represented who?
a) comic
b) hero
c) villain
d) clown
16)
This composer made famous the technique of a grand, heavy finale.
a) Hadyn b) Bach c)
Mozart d)
Beethoven
17)
A(n) _______ is a non-staged extended work for a
chorus, soloists, and orchestra that is based on a biblical topic. Haydn’s Creation
is an example of one.
a) Sonata b) concerto c) opera d) oratorio
18)
Which opera had this scene in its plot: Donna Elvira confronts her ex. Her ex
swaps clothes with his friend Leporello. Leporello serenades Donna Elvira.
a) La Padrona
b) Don Giovanni
c) The Creation
d) Magic Flute
19)
Musicals today were known in
a) Opera buffa b) Opera seria c) Singspiel d)
Masonry
20)
Beethoven’s deafness, which caused isolation, best defined which period in his
life?
a) Classical Beethoven
b) Middle Period Beethoven
c) Late Beethoven
d) All of the above