The Classic FM Quiz Book E-Book

Darren Henley

• Herausgeber: Elliott & Thompson
• Kategorie: Lebensstil
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 119

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2012

Beschreibung

What does 'opus' literally mean? Which fruit was included in the title of an opera by Prokofiev? What was a "Schubertiad"? With questions for the novice, the enthusiast and the downright expert, The Classic FM Quiz Book is guaranteed to set your musical knowledge a-quaver as you pit wits against Quick Fire, Famous Quotations, True or False, Film Scores, Name the Year, Name the Composer, Classical Oddities and many more family-friendly rounds. The perfect companion for any quizmaster looking to bring a little extra something to the quiz night; families looking to see, once and for all, who really is the best; classical music buffs; and listeners who like to have their knowledge expanded in the quiz's playful manner, The Classic FM Quiz Book provides over 1,150 questions to get you thinking. ...fortunately it provides the answers too!

Leseprobe

First published 2012 by Elliott and Thompson Limited

27 John Street, London WC1N 2BX

www.eandtbooks.com

ISBN: 978-1-908739-18-6

Text © Darren Henley and Tim Lihoreau 2012

The Authors have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as Authors of this Work.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the publisher. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.

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A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

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Cover design by Kai and Sunny

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CONTENTS

Introduction

The Questions

Round 1: Quick Fire (Easier)

Round 2: Cinematic Sounds

Round 3: Quick Fire (Easier)

Round 4: Musical Colours

Round 5: The Year In Question

Round 6: Order! Order!

Round 7: Quick Fire (Easier)

Round 8: True or False?

Round 9: Quick Fire (Easier)

Round 10: Birthday Bonanza

Round 11: Enigmas

Round 12: They Said What?

Round 13: Mix & Match

Round 14: Order! Order!

Round 15: Mix & Match

Round 16: The Year in Question

Round 17: Famous Last Words

Round 18: Whose Aria Is It Anyway?

Round 19: Definitive Mix & Match

Round 20: Name That Composer

Round 21: Quick Fire (Intermediate)

Round 22: Enigmas

Round 23: Cinematic Sounds

Round 24: Quick Fire (Intermediate)

Round 25: True or False?

Round 26: Quick Fire (Intermediate)

Round 27: The Year in Question

Round 28: In Good Voice

Round 29: Quick Fire (Intermediate)

Round 30: Mix & Match

Round 31: Quick Fire (Intermediate)

Round 32: True or False?

Round 33: Enigmas

Round 34: On the Box

Round 35: Order! Order!

Round 36: Quick Fire (Fiendish)

Round 37: They Come from Where?

Round 38: Name that Composer

Round 39: Quick Fire (Fiendish)

Round 40: The Year in Question

Round 41: Fully Entitled

Round 42: Mind the Gap

Round 43: Odd One Out

Round 44: Quick Fire (Fiendish)

Round 45: Enigmas

Round 46: Mix & Match

Round 47: Order! Order!

Round 48: Quick Fire (Fiendish)

Round 49: Mix & Match

Round 50: On the Street Where You Live

Round 51: Whose Aria Is It Anyway?

Round 52: Cinematic Sounds

Round 53: Operatic Dons

Round 54: Mix & Match

Round 55: The Year in Question

Round 56: Enigmas

Round 57: Order! Order!

Round 58: Name that Composer

Round 59: Heavenly Music

Round 60: Anything Goes

The Answers

Where To Find Out More About Classical Music

Acknowledgements

About The Authors

INTRODUCTION

It seems hard to believe that it was twenty years ago that we first turned on Classic FM’s transmitters. Those two decades of playing classical music to the nation have absolutely raced by, but then they do say that time flies when you’re having fun. In the intervening years, we have had the privilege of sharing the world’s greatest music with millions of people right across the UK.

If you listen hard enough, classical music is everywhere, all around us. We’re just as likely to hear it on television, at the cinema, at football grounds and in restaurants as we are on CDs, on our iPods, in the concert hall or by listening to a classical music radio station such as Classic FM.

We hope that we have played a small part in continuing to democratize classical music over the past two decades. We have always believed that it can and should be a part of everyone’s lives – no matter who they are or where they come from. That’s why you will always find programmes on Classic FM that explain the history and development of classical music. It’s also why much of our website, classicfm.com, is dedicated to taking online listeners on a journey of discovery through the genre.

Over the past few years, along with Classic FM’s Managing Editor Sam Jackson, we have written several books: Classic Ephemera, The Classic FM Hall of Fame, and Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Classical Music ... But Were Too Afraid To Ask. We hope that these have helped to provide listeners to our radio station and users of our website with an even deeper understanding of the subject.

To mark our 20th birthday, we thought it would be fun to publish this book as a companion volume to the others. We’ve set out to create the classical music quiz book that has something for everyone. So, no matter if you are just dipping a toe gingerly into the classical music waters, or if you have been basking in all of classical music’s glories for years; you will find questions that you can answer in the next 130 or so pages.

This book is made up of 1,150 questions, divided into a series of rounds. As you will see, some of the rounds require straight general knowledge about classical music; other rounds use a number of tried and tested quiz formats, such as working on the basis of mixing and matching answers given on the page, or by asking whether statements are true or false. We have graded all of the Quick Fire rounds as being Easier, Intermediate or Fiendish, depending on the level of difficulty we believe you will have in answering the question. You will find that the Easier rounds of this type are towards the front of the book, with the Fiendish ones being towards the back. Also, look out for our five rounds of Enigmas, which have become a regular feature on Classic FM’s More Music Breakfast presented by Tim Lihoreau every weekday morning between 6am and 9am.

Once you’ve answered all of the questions, you can score yourself by checking out the answers section at the back of the book.

Good luck! And remember the old adage that any quiz question is easy ... as long as you know the answer.

THE ROUNDS

Quickfire (Easier)

Quickfire (Intermediate)

Quickfire (Fiendish)

Cinematic Sounds

Mix & Match

Name that Composer

True or False

The Year in Question

Order! Order!

Odd One Out

Miscellaneous

Enigmas

THE QUESTIONS

Round 1: Quick Fire (Easier)

1. If “legato” is a request by a composer to a performer to play the music smoothly, what does “staccato” mean?

2. What does the word “opera” actually mean?

3. Spell the Polish composer Henryk Górecki’s surname phonetically.

4. What is the name of the piece of instrumental music played at the beginning of an opera, which often includes musical themes heard later on?

5. What are the names of The Three Tenors?

6. Which flautist became known as “the man with the golden flute” in the 1970s and 1980s?

7. The name of the instrument, “piano”, is short for the Italian word “pianoforte”. What does that translate as?

8. In the popular children’s story by Paul Tripp, what sort of instrument is Tubby?

9. Leonard Bernstein wrote the music to West Side Story. Who wrote the words?

10. In which Suffolk seaside town, where he founded a music festival, did Benjamin Britten make his home?

11. Who is the current Master of the Queen’s Music?

12. In 2007, Edward Elgar’s 150th birthday year, the Bank of England decided to take him off the back of the £20 note. With whom did they replace him?

13. Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture celebrates the victory of which nation over which other nation?

14. How many symphonies did Franz Joseph Haydn compose?

15. He’s famous now as a classical composer, but of which 1970s rock band was Karl Jenkins a member?

16. What family relationship did Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn have?

17. Which was written first – Frédéric Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 or his Piano Concerto No. 2?

18. Name the piece of music composed by Maurice Ravel, which was made famous when Torvill and Dean won a gold medal at the 1984 Olympic Games in Sarajevo.

19. The dish Tournedos Rossini was named after the composer Gioachino Rossini. It consists of croutons with steak layered on top, along with which two other toppings?

20. In which English city is the composer John Rutter based?

Show Me the Answers

Round 2: Cinematic Sounds

Match the film soundtrack composers to their films.

You can choose from:

49th Parallel, Alien, Dances with Wolves, Dangerous Moonlight, The Gadfly, Gladiator, The Heiress, Henry V (1944), The Hours, Lieutenant Kijé, The Lord of the Rings, The Magnificent Seven, The Mission, The Piano, Pride and Prejudice (2005), Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, Sense and Sensibility, The Snowman, Superman, Titanic.

1. Richard Addinsell

2. John Barry

3. Elmer Bernstein

4. Howard Blake

5. Aaron Copland

6. Carl Davis

7. Patrick Doyle

8. Philip Glass

9. Jerry Goldsmith

10. James Horner

11. Michael Kamen

12. Ennio Morricone

13. Michael Nyman

14. Sergei Prokofiev

15. Dmitri Shostakovich

16. Howard Shore

17. Ralph Vaughan Williams

18. William Walton

19. John Williams

20. Hans Zimmer

Show Me the Answers

Round 3: Quick Fire (Easier)

1. Which of Schubert’s symphonies is known as being “Unfinished”?

2. What musical jobs did Robert Schumann’s wife, Clara, do?

3. Who was known as “the Father of the Waltz”?

4. Who was known as “the Waltz King”?

5. Classic FM’s first Composer in Residence, Joby Talbot, was once a member of which pop group?

6. By what nickname was Antonio Vivaldi known?

7. John Tavener and John Taverner are both English composers, but one was born around 450 years earlier than the other. Which was it?

8. Gregorian Chant was named after whom?

9. What is the name of the 12th-century nun who, as well as being a composer, also wrote poetry and was a famed mystic, having no fewer than 26 visions?

10. We talk about Renaissance music, but what is the literal translation of “Renaissance” from French into English?

11. The Belgian early music composer Guillaume Dufay wrote 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?

12. The early English composer John Taverner was friendly with the man who was one of the main forces behind the dissolution of the monasteries. What was the name of his friend?

13. What does “opus” literally mean?

14. Which body decreed that anybody who made an illegal copy of Gregorio Allegri’s Miserere would be punished?

15. How did the composer Jean-Baptiste Lully die?

16. A piece written by the French composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier is always played at the beginning of the Eurovision Song Contest. What is its name?

17. 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?

18. “Frère Jacques”, “Three Blind Mice” and “London’s Burning” all have something in common with Johann Pachelbel’s most famous work. What is it?

19. What is the first line of Dido’s Lament from Henry Purcell’s opera Dido and Aeneas?

20. On which record label did Nigel Kennedy release his world-famous version of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons?

Show Me the Answers

Round 4: Musical Colours

Complete the classical music titles by filling in the blanks with colours. But, be careful, there is one odd one out, just to confuse you ever so slightly.

1. Brook ____ Suite by Gustav Holst

2. Rhapsody in ____ by George Gershwin

3. The ___berg Variations by J. S. Bach

4. The ___ Poppy Suite by Reinhold Gliere

5. “When night her ____ veil” by Henry Purcell

6. The Banks of _____ Willow by George Butterworth

7. The ___ Boar by Roger Quilter

8. The ____ Bell by Camille Saint-Saëns

9. Farewell to Stromness from The _____ Cake Review by Peter Maxwell Davies

10. The ____ Symphony by Arthur Bliss

11. The ___ and ____ Waltz by Franz Lehár

12. _____ and Myrtle, here by Robert Schumann

13. The _____ Cockerel by Rimsky-Korsakov

14. ___beard’s Castle by Béla Bartók

15. David of the ___ Rock (Traditional)

16. The ____ Swan by Orlando Gibbons

17. The ____ Knight by Edward Elgar

18. The ___ Bird by Charles Villiers Stanford

19. The ___ Cap by Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf

20. By the Beautiful ____ Danube by Johann Strauss Jr

Show Me the Answers

Round 5: The Year in Question

Each of these pairs (or trios) of musical and non-musical events took place in the same year in the 1700s. But what was the year in question? To help you, the answers are in chronological order — and the same year appears twice!

1. Antonio Vivaldi is ordained a priest in Venice. — Peter the Great founds St Petersburg.

2. George Frideric Handel’s opera Rinaldo is performed at the Queen’s Theatre in London. — The Spectator is founded in London.

3. George Frideric Handel’s Water Music is performed on a barge on the River Thames. — England’s first freemasonic Grand Lodge is founded in London.

4. The original Royal Academy of Music opens in London. — The “South Sea Bubble” bursts, leaving many investors penniless.

5. Johann Sebastian Bach’s St John Passion is given its first performance in Leipzig. — Immanuel Kant is born.

6. George Frideric Handel becomes a naturalized British subject. — Sir Isaac Newton dies.

7. Johann Sebastian Bach’s St Matthew Passion is given its first performance in its entirety in Leipzig. — The last execution for witchcraft in Britain takes place in Scotland.

8. Giovanni Battista Pergolesi finishes his best-known work, the Stabat Mater. — First recorded use of a bathing machine in an engraving by John Setterington.