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dipsy

think these might be the first couple of answers

Which period of music came first: Classical or Baroque?<INPUT class=txt id=q1 value=Baroque name=q1>
2. The work we've just heard was by Johann Pachelbel. It has something in common with Frere Jacques, Three Blind Mice and London's Burning. What is it?<INPUT class=txt id=q2 name=q2>
3. Johann Sebastian Bach wrote the St John Passion. He wrote a separate Passion named after another saint. Which one was it?<INPUT class=txt id=q3 value=Matthew name=q3>
4. Johann Sebastian Bach believed that 14 was his own personal number. How did he arrive at that figure?<INPUT class=txt id=q4 value="through mystical numerology, B is 2, A is 1, C is 3 and H is 8. Therefore total is 14." name=q4>
5. Legend has it that Johann Sebastian Bach walked around four hundred miles to hear which organist play?<INPUT class=txt id=q5 value="Buxtehude " name=q5>

brook_son

thanks anymore answers???

Rharni

2. The work we've just heard was by Johann Pachelbel. It has something in common with Frere Jacques, Three Blind Mice and London's Burning. What is it? A; He was first to do 'canon' music..i.e.called 'round'
(you remember the way we sing all three examples given)
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6. Between leaving school and becoming an organist, which instrument did Johann Sebastian Bach make money from playing? VIOLIN
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7. During his lifetime, the composer Luigi Boccherini toured Italy, France and Spain as a virtuoso performer on which instrument? CELLO
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8. George Frideric Handel's father wasn't keen on him learning an instrument, so where did the boy's mother hide his harpsichord, so that he could practise out of earshot? IN THE ATTIC
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9. Antonio Vivaldi was excused having to say Mass because he claimed to suffer from which illness? ASTHMA
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10. Who wrote these three works: Abdelazer, Trumpet Tune and Air In D and Come Ye Sons of Art. PURCELL
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11. The piece that we have just heard, which was written by the French composer, Marc-Antonie Charpentier, is always played at the beginning of the Eurovision Song Contest. What is its name? the prelude to Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Te Deum
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Rharni

12. The Composer Arcangelo Corelli was the master of a particular type of concerto, where the orchestra is divided into two groups. One group of musicians tends to play first, with a second group then echoing the music played by the first set. What is this sort of concerto called?<INPUT class=txt id=q12 value="concerto grosso " name=q12>


13. Benjamin Britten borrowed the theme from Henry Purcell's Rondo from Abdelazar to use as the basis for his most famous piece for children, which we've just heard. What is its name?<INPUT class=txt id=q13 value="Theme for The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra'" name=q13>

14. In Henry Purcell's opera, Dido and Aeneas, Dido is queen of where?<INPUT class=txt id=q14 value="Queen of Carthage " name=q14>

15. By the time he was ten, Henry Purcell was a choirboy in which choir?<INPUT class=txt id=q15 value="Chorister in the Chapel Royal " name=q15>

16. Thomas Tallis wrote music for two Queens of England. One was Catholic and one was Protestant. Who were they?<INPUT class=txt id=q16 value="Mary Tudor and Elizabeth 1" name=q16>

17. Thomas Tallis was a lay clerk at which English Cathedral?<INPUT class=txt id=q17 value="Canterbury Cathedral" name=q17>

18. Elizabeth I jointly granted the composers William Byrd and Thomas Tallis a patent allowing them the monopoly on what in England for 21 years from 1575?<INPUT class=txt id=q18 value="printing music and music paper " name=q18>

19. William Byrd was the organist and choirmaster at which English cathedral between 1563 and 1672?<INPUT class=txt id=q19 value=" Lincoln Cathedral" name=q19>

20. Who wrote Gloria, Four Seasons and Nulla in Mundo Pax Sincera<INPUT class=txt id=q20 value=VIVALDI name=q20>

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21. How is Edward Elgar's Variations on a Theme now better known?<INPUT class=txt id=q21 value="'Enigma' Variations" name=q21>

22. In which English county was Edward Elgar born?<INPUT class=txt id=q22 value=Worcester name=q22>

23. What sort of shop did Edward Elgar's father own during the composer's childhood?<INPUT class=txt id=q23 value=Music name=q23>

24. At which London school was Gustav Holst the Director of Music for many years, even writing a suite dedicated to the place?<INPUT class=txt id=q24 value="St. Paul's Girls' School, Hammersmith" name=q24>

25. Gustav Holst is of Swedish descent, but in which English county was he born?<INPUT class=txt id=q25 value=" Gloucestershire" name=q25>

26. What was Gustav Holst's main instrument as a player?<INPUT class=txt id=q26 value=Trombone name=q26>

27. At which music college did Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst study together?<INPUT class=txt id=q27 value="Royal College of Music" name=q27>

28. What was the name of the choral work in four movements by Sir Paul McCartnery that received its premiere in the Royal Albert Hall in London at the end of 2006?<INPUT class=txt id=q28 value="Ecce Cor Meum" name=q28>

29. John Tavener owes the release of his Celtic Requiem on Apple Records to which member of The Beatles?<INPUT class=txt id=q29 value="Ringo Starr" name=q29>

30. Who wrote these three pieces: La Calinda, On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring and Walk to the Paradise Garden.<INPUT class=txt id=q30 value=Delius name=q30>

31. In which English city is the composer John Rutter based?<INPUT class=txt id=q31 value=Cambridge name=q31>

32. Who composed the music to The Snowman, featuring Walking in the Air, the song that made Aled Jones famous?<INPUT class=txt id=q32 value="Howard Blake" name=q32>

33. Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Harrison Birtwhistle both studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music, along with a group of young British composers. What were they collectively known as?<INPUT class=txt id=q33 value="New Music Manchester Group" name=q33>

35. We talk about classical music having 'opus numbers'. What does opus literally mean?<INPUT class=txt id=q35 value=Work name=q35>

36. Gregorian Chant was named after whom?<INPUT class=txt id=q36 value=" St. Gregory I" name=q36>

37. In 1969, Arvo Part stopped composing altogether after becoming a member of which religious faith?<INPUT class=txt id=q37 value=" Russian Orthodox Church" name=q37>

38. The composers Philip Glass, Steve Reich and Terry Riley are all exponents of a deceptively simple style of music, which often features a few notes repeated over and over again. What is it called?<INPUT class=txt id=q38 value=" Minimalist Music" name=q38>

39. The Belgian Early Music composer Guillaume Dufay worte a mass based on a folk song called The Armed Man. What is the name of the 21st century Welsh composer who had great success with his new work of the same name?<INPUT class=txt id=q39 value=" Karl Jenkins" name=q39>

40. Who is the composer who links these three works together: Violin Concerto No. 1, Kol Nidrei and Scottish Fantasy.<INPUT class=txt id=q40 value="Max Bruch" name=q40>
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Can anyone carry on for a while...I'm all Google'd out!!!! But will come back later and do more,,,,

masterthief

lol, I thgouth you just happened to be v. v. hot on classical music

will take a look once I've caught up with other comps.

NOSONDDU

34. The composer Benjamin Britten was born in which Suffolk town?
ans - Lowestoft

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61. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart went on his first tour of Europe when he was six years old. It took him to Munich, Vienna, Paris, London and Amsterdam. For how many years did it last? 3 YEARS
62. By what nickname was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's sister Maria Anna known? NANNERL
63. Which other famous composer, when he was a boy, played for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, impressing the older man enough for him to say: 'Keep your eye on him: one day he will make the world talk of him'. BEETHOVEN
64. The film Amadeus, about the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was directed by Milos Forman. But on whose stage play was it based? PETER SHAFFER
65. How old was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart when he died?35
66. Just outside which city was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart buried in an unmarked grave? VIENNA
67. What was the name of the family who were musical patrons to Joseph Haydn throughout his career?ESTERHAZY
68. Gluck's The Dance of the Blessed Spirits comes from a ballet section of which of his operas?ORFEO ED EURIDICE
69. What was the Number One in the 2007 Classic FM Hall of Fame?VAUGHAN WILLIAMS' THE LARK ASCENDING
70. Which one composer wrote all three of these classical hits: Violin Concerto, Songs Without Words and Hebrides Overture?MENDELSSOHN
71. He's now famous as a classical composer, but of which 1970s rock band was Karl Jenkins a member? SOFT MACHINE
72. In which English City was Frederick Delius born?BRADFORD
73. In an attempt to distract him from composing, Frederick Delius's father sent him to run what sort of business in America?MANAGE AN ORANGE GROVE
74. In Frederick Delius's opera A Village Romeo and Juliet, the characters take a Walk to the Paradise Garden. What exactly was the Paradise Garden?AN INN
75. In which English northern town was William Walton born?OLDHAM
76. Where in Oxford was William Walton a boy chorister?CHRIST CHURCH
77. When William Walton was 19, he wrote Façade as an accompaniment to whose rather outlandish and highly theatrical poetry?DAME EDITH SITWELL
78. Benjamin Britten's War Requiem was written for the opening of which cathedral?COVENTRY
79. In which Suffolk seaside town, where he founded a music festival, did Benjamin Britten make his home?ALDEBURGH
80. Which one composer wrote The Lark Ascending?VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

I've done all of them but can't remember all of the answers now :rotfl: . I'll trawl through the memory banks for the ones before and after this.

Stranger_Than_Fiction

Please bear in mind that these are done from memory so there will be gaps (just like in my memory!) which will need to be filled in but most of them would be easy enough to google.


41. Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture celebrates the victory of which nation over which other nation? RUSSIA OVER FRANCE
42. Although there is a school of thought that he deliberately took his own life, what was the official reason given for Tchiakovsky's death?CHOLERA
43. Which great Russian impresario commissioned Igor Stravinsky to write the ballets The Firebird and Petrushka?
44. What unusual event occurred at the premiere of Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring?THE AUDIENCE RIOTED
45. Which fruit was included in the title of an opera by Sergei Prokofiev?ORANGES
46. Sergei Prokofiev died on the same day as a Russian leader who had done an enormous amount to suppress his music. Who was that leader?STALIN
47. Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich both studied at which Russian music college?
48. Which of Dmitri Shostakovich's symphonies has the subtitle 'A Soviet Artist's Practical Creative Reply to Just Criticism'?
49. Who said of Sergei Rachmaninov: 'His immortalizing totality was his scowl. He was a six-and-a-half-foot-tall scowl... he was an awesome man'.
50. Which composer wrote these three pieces: Prince Igor, In The Steppes of Central Asia and String Quarter No. 2?
51. What is the name of the film which saw the first collaboration between the composer John Williams and the director Stephen Spielberg?SUGARLAND EXPRESS
52. Oliver Stone notably used which famous piece by Samuel Barber in his Vietnam War film Platoon?
53. Which work by George Frideric Handel was used as the theme music to The Madness of King George?WATER MUSIC
54. Who directed the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, which used Richard Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra in its opening?STANLEY KUBRICK
55. At which British music college did the composer of the soundtrack to Titanic, James Horner, train?ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC (I THINK)
56. Camille Saint-Saëns' Organ Symphony was made famous to a whole new generation of listeners by Babe, an animal that thought it was a sheep dog. What sort of animal was Babe?A PIG
57. What was the name of the 1908 film, for which Camille Saint-Saëns composed the first ever film soundtrack?
58. Modest Mussorgsky's Night on a Bare Mountain was used in which Walt Disney cartoon?FANTASIA
59. Joaquin Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez was referred to as 'Concerto de Orange Juice' in which film about a northern mining town?BRASSED OFF
60. Who wrote those three pieces of music - Star Wars, Schindler's List and Superman - all of them movie themes? JOHN WILLIAMS

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Phew, here are the last 20 with a few google-able gaps. Good luck all. Sorry I haven't got time to do them all. Feel free to point out any mistakes (though I think I will cry).

81. Name the piece of music composed by Maurice Ravel, which was made famous when Torvill and Dean won a gold medal in the 1984 Olympic Games in Sarajevo.BOLERO
82. We talk about Renaissance Music, but what is the literal translation of 'Renaissance' from French into English?REBORN
83. Of which American orchestra was Leonard Bernstein the music director between 1958 and 1969?NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC (I THINK)
84. Which American composer said: 'Listening to the 5th symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes'?AARON COPLAND
85. The American composer John Cage inserted pieces of metal and rubber into the body of a piano to create a variation on the instrument. What was this known as?A PREPARED PIANO
86. Francis Poulenc's father was a wealthy chemist who owned a pharmaceutical company. What was its name?
87. Francis Poulenc wrote the music to a children's classic about a little elephant. What was the elephant's name?BABAR
88. For which king was Jean-Baptiste Lully the personal composer?
89. Who was known as 'the Father of the Waltz'?STRAUSS
90. Which composer wrote Fur Elise?
91. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's family always expected him to go into a particular branch of the armed forces. Was it the army, navy or airforce?NAVY
92. Upon which story is Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's greatest work, Scheherezade, based?TALES OF A HUNDRED AND ONE NIGHTS
93. Which of Schubert's Symphonies is known as being 'Unfinished'?
94. On which record label did Nigel Kennedy release his world famous version of Vivaldi's Four Seasons?EMI
95. Which two famous composers criss-crossed Hungary, gathering recordings of authentic Hungarian folk tunes on a primitive recording machine which imprinted the sounds on wax cylinders?
96. What was the name of Giacomo Puccini's final opera?TURANDOT
97. Which operetta composer, who was born in 1842, wrote the tune to the hymn Onward! Christian Soldiers!?
98. Which composer said: 'One should try everything once, except incest and folk-dancing?'ARNOLD BAX (BUT I WISH IT HAD BEEN ME)
99. Which of Gustav Mahler's symphonies is known as 'The Symphony of a Thousand'?
100. Which composer wrote the Marriage of Figaro?MOZART

NickiM

90. Which composer wrote Fur Elise? - Beethoven
93. Which of Schubert's Symphonies is known as being 'Unfinished'? 8th
95. Which two famous composers criss-crossed Hungary, gathering recordings of authentic Hungarian folk tunes on a primitive recording machine which imprinted the sounds on wax cylinders? Bartok and Kodaly possibly, I'll double check