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WorksheetsMusic History (1)
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
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
In which period was music dominated by vocal, percussive and basic woodwind instruments?
Antiquity
Baroque
Classical
Romantic
In which period did polyphonic texture dominate music?
Baroque
20 C
Romantic
Classical
In which period was the piano developed?
Romantic
Medieval
Classical
20 C
The name of the person that developed the piano from a harpsichord was...
Chopin
Beethoven
Bartollomeo Christofori
Mozart
The average amount of players in the Baroque orchestra was
over 50
over 250
around 80-100
around 30
Monophonic music was the dominant texture in which of these periods?
Classical
Medieval
Renaissance
Romantic
In which period did Concert Halls get built?
Antiquity
Baroque
Romantic
Classical
What is the name of the most famous violin maker from the Classical period
Bartollomeo Christofori
Beethoven
Mozart
Stradivarius
In which period did music become about passion and emotion?
Medieval
Romantic
Classical
Renaissance
Mozart was the most famous composer from which one of these periods?
Classical
Baroque
Romantic
20th C
