Music History (1)

Many years ago, the earliest music was probably made with...

• A full orchestra

• Guitars, harps and violins

• Recorders, flutes and saxophones

• People singing and clapping their hands

Franz Schubert composed hundreds of pieces of classical music. But what was his nickname?

• Little potato

• Little onion

• Little cabbage

• Little mushroom

Early orchestras were quite small but have gradually grown to the point where there are at least 90 musicians and a...

• ticket master

• ceremony leader

• conductor

• music boss

Mozart, Beethoven and Bach were all famous...

• Composers

• Kings

• Knights

• Magicians

It is thought the first wind instruments may have come from...

• Egypt

• France

• Russia

• Spain

The earliest stringed instrument was called a...

• Violin

• Lyre

• ukulele

• Piano

Why can't we really tell what very early music may have sounded like?

• It sounded so bad, everyone wanted to forget it

• There was no way to write down notes or record music

• The musicians forgot what they had played almost instantly

• There was no way to write down notes or record music

Which invention in the late 1800s, helped people listen to music at home?

• The CD player

• The gramophone

• The MP3 player

• The radio

In about 1000 AD, Christian monks did something which changed music completely. What was it?

• They devised a way to write down musical notes

• They made the first microphone

• They discovered how to build a stadium

• They made a music recording device

In 1982, music for the home was produced in a new way. What was it?

• The CD

• The record

• The tape cassette

• The download