Who wrote the libretto for Igor Stravinsky’s opera The Rake’s Progress (1951)?

Sir Stephen Spender and Christopher Isherwood

Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso

Louis MacNeice and Cecil Day-Lewis

Music in the World (Part One) Quiz Quiz

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Which English composer of the Baroque period wrote more than 100 songs, the miniature opera Dido and Aeneas, and incidental music to a version of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, called The Fairy Queen?

Henry Purcell

Antonio Vivaldi

Arcangelo Corelli

George Frideric Handel

1.

Which composer of several American popular standards also found success as a character actor, notably in the movie To Have and Have Not (1944)?

2.

Who created a new method of music composition based on a row, or series, of 12 tones?

3.

Who invented the clarinet?

4.

Which composer invented the concept of estate planning?

5.

What American folk singer was hailed as the Shakespeare of his generation?

6.

Who wrote the libretto for Igor Stravinsky’s opera The Rake’s Progress (1951)?

7.

Which English composer of the Baroque period wrote more than 100 songs, the miniature opera Dido and Aeneas, and incidental music to a version of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, called The Fairy Queen?

8.

Which jazz singer had a vocal range of barely more than an octave?

9.

Which singer, recording a song by bluesman Arthur (“Big Boy”) Crudup and a waltz by Bill Monroe, developed the sound that came to be known as “rockabilly”?

10.

Which of these singers is not associated with gospel music?

11.

Which musical instrument is also called the whistle flute?

12.

Which great German composer had a serious hearing affliction?

13.

Which composer created polystylism?

14.

Who composed the Brandenburg Concertos?

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1. Which composer of several American popular standards also found success as a character actor, notably in the movie To Have and Have Not (1944)?

2. Who created a new method of music composition based on a row, or series, of 12 tones?

3. Who invented the clarinet?

4. Which composer invented the concept of estate planning?

5. What American folk singer was hailed as the Shakespeare of his generation?

6. Who wrote the libretto for Igor Stravinsky’s opera The Rake’s Progress (1951)?

7. Which English composer of the Baroque period wrote more than 100 songs, the miniature opera Dido and Aeneas, and incidental music to a version of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, called The Fairy Queen?

8. Which jazz singer had a vocal range of barely more than an octave?

9. Which singer, recording a song by bluesman Arthur (“Big Boy”) Crudup and a waltz by Bill Monroe, developed the sound that came to be known as “rockabilly”?

10. Which of these singers is not associated with gospel music?

11. Which musical instrument is also called the whistle flute?

12. Which great German composer had a serious hearing affliction?

13. Which composer created polystylism?

14. Who composed the Brandenburg Concertos?

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1.

Which composer of several American popular standards also found success as a character actor, notably in the movie To Have and Have Not (1944)?

2.

Who created a new method of music composition based on a row, or series, of 12 tones?

3.

Who invented the clarinet?

4.

Which composer invented the concept of estate planning?

5.

What American folk singer was hailed as the Shakespeare of his generation?

6.

Who wrote the libretto for Igor Stravinsky’s opera The Rake’s Progress (1951)?

7.

Which English composer of the Baroque period wrote more than 100 songs, the miniature opera Dido and Aeneas, and incidental music to a version of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, called The Fairy Queen?

8.

Which jazz singer had a vocal range of barely more than an octave?

9.

Which singer, recording a song by bluesman Arthur (“Big Boy”) Crudup and a waltz by Bill Monroe, developed the sound that came to be known as “rockabilly”?

10.

Which of these singers is not associated with gospel music?

11.

Which musical instrument is also called the whistle flute?

12.

Which great German composer had a serious hearing affliction?

13.

Which composer created polystylism?

14.

Who composed the Brandenburg Concertos?