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WorksheetsWSC 2023 Art and Music
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 8mins
How was most of the poetry from around 750BC to 350BC – the songs of Homer, Sappho, and others - shared?
composed and sung as music
dramatic readings
stage play
acted out by prisoners in the colosseum and other arenas
Bob Dylan's 'It's the flight of the Bumblebee' was inspired by which classical piece?
Rimsky-Korsakov's The Flight of the Bumblebee
Beethoven's Symphony no. 5
Mozart's Don Giovanni
Bach's Goldberg Variations
The director Stanley Kubrick fired his composer and replaced all music in his film with classical pieces when making which film?
Full Metal Jacket
Paths of Glory
2001: A Space Odyssey
A Clockwork Orange
Which classical music conductor was described as 'a slave to the composer'?
Arturo Toscanini
Wilhelm Furtwangler
Herbert von Karajan
Claudio Abbado
What is the name of the robot conductor conducted the opera Scary Beauty, written by Japanese composer Keiichiro Shibuya?
C-3PO
Optimus 2357
S1mphonie
Android Alter 3
Which great maestro (conductor) said “If I don’t become Brahms or Tchaikovsky or Stravinsky when I’m conducting their works, then it won’t be a great performance.”?
Wilhelm Furtwangler
Leonard Bernstein
John Williams
Arturo Toscanini
Which Beatles' song began with the idea of playing the familiar chords in Beethoven's famous Moonlight Sonata—but in reverse.
I Want You
Because
Let it Be
Don't Let Me Down
Which century saw the rise of a new kind of professional musician: the conductor, whose job it is to oversee, in rehearsal and then in real time, the performance of a piece?
C17th
C18th
C20th
C19th
Before the role of 'conductor' was created, who typically led the orchestra?
The composer
First chair
The orchestrator
The concert master
The earliest substantial [Ancient Greek] musical document, found in ____, preserves part of a chorus from the Athenian tragedian Euripides’ Orestes of 408BC. (year found?)
1676
1892
1801
1998
