Classical Music Quiz

What are the characteristics of songs in the Classical period

• It was accompanied by a keyboard

• The accompaniment is easy enough to be played by the singer

• The form is strophic or modified strophic

• It shows extreme virtuosic singing

What is the name of English songs

• Lied

• Romance

• Ballads

• Lagu

Which of the following is NOT a characteristics of a German Lied

• Smaller songs were composed

• It was performed in gathering spaces such as the saloons

• Were through composed

• Style is syllabic

Which of the following statements is/are not true about Instrumental music in the classical period

• The string quartet was mainly played in private

• the piano replaced the harpsichord and clavichord as a favorite instrument

• Concerto and symphony are prominent orchestral music

• A new structure called the sonata was used as an important formal structure

Who invented the piano?

• Bartolomeo Christofori

• Chistopher Zell

• Heinrich Stoelzel

• Johann Christoph Denner

Which of the J.S Bach sons was known as 'The London Bach'

• Johann Christian Bach

• Wilhelm Friedemann Bach

• Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach

• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

The instrument above was the earliest models of the piano. Which of the following is INCORRECT about the earliest Piano

• The Piano hammers strike the strings giving better control of the dynamics

• The inventor was Bartolomeo Christofori

• It was invented in Florence in 1700

• When the Piano was invented, no one wanted to play the Harpsichord or the Clavichord at all up till the mid 18th century.

True or False: Strophic form songs mean they consist of the same melody for each stanza, but it has a different text or lyrics

• True

• False

Who was the first prominent composer of symphonies

• Sammartini

• Scarlatti

• J.S. Bach

• Pergolesi

Who composed sonatas under the title Essercizi or Exercises

• Scarlatti

• Sammartini

• Pergolesi

• CPE Bach