Quiz  /  High Art in Song Quiz

  • 1. 
    How many dances did Johann Strauss write?

  • 200
  • 100
  • 300
  • 400

  • 2. 
    When was Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring first performed?

  • 1942
  • 1913
  • 1861
  • 1892

  • 3. 
    Where, in the Gilbert and Sullivan musical, did a certain group of pirates live?

  • Penwyth
  • Penzance
  • Pentagon
  • Pendragon

  • 4. 
    Which of these is not an example of musical theater?

  • The Blue Danube
  • A Chorus Line
  • Sunday in the Park with George
  • West Side Story

  • 5. 
    Which of these was a forerunner of the madrigal?

  • fromage
  • frappe
  • frottola
  • flotilla

  • 6. 
    Which of these poets was not a favorite of the 16th-century Italian madrigal composers?

  • Petrarch
  • Shakespeare
  • Boccaccio
  • Ariosto

  • 7. 
    Who composed Madama Butterfly?

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  • Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Igor Stravinsky
  • Giacomo Puccini

  • 8. 
    A chanson would most likely be written in:

  • America
  • Czechoslovakia
  • France
  • Australia
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