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WSC 2023 Art and Music

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How was most of the poetry from around 750BC to 350BC – the songs of Homer, Sappho, and others - shared?

a)

composed and sung as music

b)

dramatic readings

c)

stage play

d)

acted out by prisoners in the colosseum and other arenas

2.

Bob Dylan's 'It's the flight of the Bumblebee' was inspired by which classical piece?

a)

Rimsky-Korsakov's The Flight of the Bumblebee

b)

Beethoven's Symphony no. 5

c)

Mozart's Don Giovanni

d)

Bach's Goldberg Variations

3.

The director Stanley Kubrick fired his composer and replaced all music in his film with classical pieces when making which film?

a)

Full Metal Jacket

b)

Paths of Glory

c)

2001: A Space Odyssey

d)

A Clockwork Orange

4.

Which classical music conductor was described as 'a slave to the composer'?

a)

Arturo Toscanini

b)

Wilhelm Furtwangler

c)

Herbert von Karajan

d)

Claudio Abbado

5.

What is the name of the robot conductor conducted the opera Scary Beauty, written by Japanese composer Keiichiro Shibuya?

a)

C-3PO

b)

Optimus 2357

c)

S1mphonie

d)

Android Alter 3

6.

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.”?

a)

Wilhelm Furtwangler

b)

Leonard Bernstein

c)

John Williams

d)

Arturo Toscanini

7.

Which Beatles' song began with the idea of playing the familiar chords in Beethoven's famous Moonlight Sonata—but in reverse.

a)

I Want You

b)

Because

c)

Let it Be

d)

Don't Let Me Down

8.

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?

a)

C17th

b)

C18th

c)

C20th

d)

C19th

9.

Before the role of 'conductor' was created, who typically led the orchestra?

a)

The composer

b)

First chair

c)

The orchestrator

d)

The concert master

10.

The earliest substantial [Ancient Greek] musical document, found in ____, preserves part of a chorus from the Athenian tragedian Euripides’ Orestes of 408BC. (year found?)

a)

1676

b)

1892

c)

1801

d)

1998