March Music Quiz

Which era took place 1780-1910?

• The Classical Era

• The Baroque era

• The Romantic Era

• 20th Century Era

Which quality of the Romantic Era is NOT true?

• Dense textures and dramatic contrasts:

• Lots of money was being made by all composers

• A freedom in composing

• Expansion of the orchestra

What is program music?

• music that is meant to represent a non-musical idea like a poem, a story, a picture, or an animal

• music that had to do with programs

• music from different eras all put into one concert

• music that includes many, many instruments

What are dynamics?

• how long someone holds the note with instruments or voices

• how crazy the music can sound

• refers to the volume of a note

• if the music is slow or fast

Who was a Czech composer?

• Bedrich Smetana

• Ed Sheeran

• Amadeus Mozart

• Your teacher

Which composer was from Poland, wrote mostly for the piano, and was a child prodigy?

• Beethoven

• Frederic Chopin

• Taylor Swift

• Bon Jovi

Who is the well known blue grass and country singer who sang "Down to the River to Pray"?

• Dolly Parton

• Miley Cyrus

• Loretta Lynn

• Alison Krauss

Who is known as the Waltz King who wrote "The Blue Danube"?

• Mozart

• Johann Strauss II

• George Gershwin

• Rogers and Hammerstein

Which German composer from the Baroque era wrote the "Hornpipe"?

• J.S. Bach

• John Philip Sousa

• Antonio Vivaldi

• George Frederic Handel

Which American singer sang the song "Somewhere Beyond the Sea"?

• Tony Soprano

• Frank Sinatra

• Louis Armstrong

• Justin Bieber