Palumbo Piano Studio

QUIZ

1. Music for chamber musicians usually has titles that identify the number of players needed.  What would you call musical pieces for 2 players?  3?  4?  5?  6?  7?  8? and 9 players? 
    

2. What U.S. city is known as the birthplace of jazz?
    

3. George Frederic Handel wrote many oratorios.  Name his most famous oratorio.
    

4. What do the following instruments have in common?  Spinet, virginal, harpsichord, clavichord, celesta.
    

5. Who wrote "Peter and The Wolf" and what instruments depict Peter, the wolf, bird, cat, duck, grandfather and the hunters?
    

6. When people act out a story in elaborate costumes and sing music instead of speaking words, it is called an _______.
    

7. What does this signify:  W-W-H-W-W-W-H?
    

8. Who is the composer associated with the Anna Magdalena Notebook?  What is the notebook?
    

9. Explain pentatonic as it relates to scales.
    

10. What composer became deaf by the time he was 30 years old?