1. What piano piece by John Cage is completely tacet?
4' 33" for piano
Symphony #1
String Quartet

Karajan my wayward son

2. Herbert von Karajan is best known for conducting which group?
Pro Arte String Quartet
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Pink Floyd

Kiss my brass

3. Which of the following is NOT in the brass family?
Harp
Trumpet
French Horn

L.A. Philharmonic Confidential

4. The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra only plays movie music. (True or False)
True
False
Not sure

Law & Order of sharps & flats

5. Which major scale has no sharps or flats?
B minor
D minor
C major

I just met a girl named Maria Callas

6. Maria Callas was known for which of these talents?
singing
dancing
webmastering

| A ballet for Martha Stewart

7. Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring uses which of the following melodies?
Theme from Shaft
Simple Gifts
Beethoven's Fifth

Yehudi Menuhin & the Blowfish

8. What stringed instrument did Yehudi Menuhin play?
Tuba
Pianoforte
Violin

Get Met Opera, it pays

9. The Metropolitan Opera is located in what North American city?
New York City
Amsterdam
Berlin

The Mozart Effect

10. What did Mozart's initials W.A. stand for?
Walter Allen
Wolfgang Amadeus
Woo Andie

N.Y.P.O. Blue

11. The New York Philharmonic Orchestra Young People's concerts are best associated with what famous conductor?
Heilige Dankegesang
Leonard Bernstein
Craig Pospisil

Orpheus in the Underwear

12. Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld features what steamy dance?
The lambada
The polka
The can-can

The Pinesol of Rome

13. What country is described in Ottorino Respighi's Pines of Rome?
Italy
Germany
U.S.A.

Puff Daddy Haydn

14. Franz Joseph Haydn befriended which of these Vienese composers?
Mozart
Beethoven
Both

The Riot of Spring

15. Igor Stravinsky wrote the Firebird, Pulicinella and the Rite of Spring for what ballet company?
Martha Stewart dancers
Ballets Russe
Solid Gold Dancers

Roses are red, violas are purple

16. The viola is part of which instrument family?
Brass
Woodwind
String

Mighty Mighty Russian Five Bosstones

17. Several of the "Mighty Russian Five" were chemists as well as composers. (True or False)
True
False
not sure

Schutz happens

18. What romantic composer did Schutz influence for his "German Requiem?"
Claude Debussy
Johannes Brahms
Andrzej Panufnik

Joseph Schwantner & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

19. Joseph Schwanter's New Morning for the World uses a text by whom?
Martin Luther King, Jr
William Jefferson Clinton
Lonnie Foster

Alotta sonatas

20. Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata is written for which instrument?
Moon
Piano
Lightbulb

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