Music History MCQs
Music History MCQs
Our team has conducted extensive research to compile a set of Music History MCQs. We encourage you to test your Music History knowledge by answering these multiple-choice questions provided below.
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1: In chant from the middle ages, if there are many notes per syllable, the style is called _____.
A. Melismatic
B. Syllabic
C. Neumatic
D. None of these
2: ______ is the composer known as the father of the symphony and string quartet.
A. Mozart
B. Beethoven
C. Vivaldi
D. Haydn
3: Berlioz used _________ in symphonie fantastique.
A. Berlioz: 'Symphonie Fantastique' ...
B. Revolutionary use of idee fixe
C. 'Grande messe des morts'.
4: The inspiration for berlioz's symphonie fantastique was _____.
A. The actress Harriet Smithson.
B. The composer Clara Schumann
C. The actress Harriet Smithson
D. The writer George Sand
5: Church authorities in the middle ages ____________________ their religious services.
A. Wanted music only as a discreet accompaniment to
B. An estampie is a medieval
C. The term ars nova refers to
D. The center of polyphonic music in Europe after 1150 was
6: Minuet and trio is a form that is typically found in the ___________ movement of a symphony.
A. First
B. Second
C. First And Fourth
D. Third
7: The symphonie fantastique mirrors berlioz's obsession with __________.
A. What Berlioz's song reflects
B. "March to the Scafford"
C. Berlioz's "Fantasy-Symphony"
D. Berlioz on sound
8: The main (opening) theme of the mazurka in b-flat consists of __________.
A. Passionate speech
B. A singing melody with accompaniment
C. An upward contour and a major scale
D. A particular rhythmic pattern
9: A piano is often used in twentieth-century orchestral music to ______.
A. A percussive edge
B. A tone cluster
C. A polychord
D. Arnold schoenburg
10: In the works of erasmus, more, and cervantes, ________ is employed to great effect.
A. Faith
B. Satire
C. Montaigne.
D. Madrigal.
11: Richard wagner's last opera was ______.
A. Siegfried
B. Tristan Und Isolde
C. Fidelio
D. Parsifal
12: In twentieth-century music ______.
A. Percussion instruments have become very prominent and numerous
B. Dissonance has been emancipated
C. String players are sometimes called on to use the wood instead of the hair on their bows
D. All of these
13: One of the most common scales used in african, far eastern, and native american music is the _____.
A. Microtones
B. Transposition
C. Dominant
D. Pentatonic and tritonic
14: The _______ chord is counterposed against active chords.
A. First
B. Tempo
C. Active
D. Rest
15: The opening of this song establishes a _________ key.
A. Minor
B. German
C. Through
D. Composed
16: A relief sculpture can be seen from _____________ point(s) of view.
A. One
B. Three
C. Two
D. Multiple
17: The national gallery of art, dedicated in 1941 is a beautiful example of ________ architecture.
A. Neo-classical.
B. Installing fountains
C. Sailed shape roof
D. Sidi bashir mosque
18: Nirvanas album ________________ launched the alternative rock boom in the 1990s.
A. Unplugged in New York
B. In Utero
C. Vitology
D. Nevermind.
19: This movement's opening theme is heard in a(n) ________ key.
A. Minor
B. Triple
C. Woodwinds
D. Cellos
20: Wagner advocated that, in opera, the orchestra should __________.
A. Participate in the drama
B. She is his daughter
C. Ear-splitting noise
D. Steady and confident,
21: Robert schumann's fantasiestcke is a(n) ______.
A. Composition for orchestra
B. Cycle of piano pieces
C. Etude for piano students
D. Song cycle
22: The full-choir gospel style was started by ___________ in the early 1930s.
A. Cover Song
B. Thomas A. Dorsey
C. Sun Records
D. Fats Domino
23: The standard 12-bar blues progression uses only ______ harmonic chords.
A. Three
B. Four
C. Two
D. Six
24: The first instrumental break features a(n) _____ solo and band.
A. Sitar
B. Acoustic guitar
C. Electric guitar
D. Electric keyboard
25: Count basie corner pocket in this video you see ____?
A. Aa trumpet soloa saxophone
B. Solo Count Basie (piano player)
C. Opens the song with piano riffs
D. None of these
26: John plays ___________ on this rare cut from 1975.
A. Acoustic
B. Pianoelectric
C. Organelectric
D. Pianoacoustic
E. Guitarelectric bass
F. All of these
27: In da capo form, more elaborate ornamentation occurs primarily in the ________ section(s).
A. Opening A
B. Final A
C. B
D. A and B
28: Schubert's songs number more than ______.
A. 250
B. 100
C. 50
D. 600
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