QUESTIONS
- The highest note can be reached by which female voice?
- Which composer, from an Australian family of musicians, was known as the 'Waltz king'?
- In which country was the composer Debussy born?
- What does the musical term fortissimo mean?
- Arthur Sullivan wrote the music for the famous Savoy Operas? Who wrote the words?
- Nijinsky was one of the greatest of all ballet dancers. Why did his career come to a premature end?
- In which city did jazz have its origins?
- Musical instruments are divided into four classes. Strings, wind instruments and keyboard are three of them. What is the fourth?
- Which aria from Puccini's Madame Butterfly has become an 'opera pop song'?
- At what age did Mozart die?
- What does the musical term lento mean?
- Which composer wrote the Emperor Concerto and the Ninth Symphony?
- Which Tchaikovsky ballet has Princess Aurora as a heroine?
- A plectrum is used to play which music instrument?
- What is a paradiddle?
- Who wrote the Enigma Variations and The Dream of Gerontius?
- What were Bach's given names?
- Which dancer was strangled by her own scarf?
- Who wrote the opera Gloriana in honor of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953?
- Which ballet uses music by Chopin?
- In which opera is the heroine a girl who works in a cigarette factory?
- What nationality was the composer Delius, who dies in 1934?
- How many strings does a violin have?
- Which ballerina was famous for her solo performance in The Dying Swan?
- In which city is the famous opera house, La Scala?
ANSWERS
- Soprano
- Johann Strauss
- France
- Very loud
- W.S. Gilbert
- He suffered from mental illness
- New Orleans
- Percussion
- One Fine Day
- 35
- Slow
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Sleeping Beauty
- Guitar
- A drum roll
- Elgar
- Johann Sebastian
- Isadora Duncan
- Benjamin Britten
- Les Sylphides
- Carmen
- English
- Four
- Anna Pavlova
- Milan
