Trivia questions about music with the answers.
Which Which Baroque composer wrote The Four Seasons?
A: Vivaldi.
How many valves does a trumpet have?
A: Three.
Of what kind of dance did Johann Strauss become 'King' in the late
19th century?
A: Waltz.
Which female singing voice lies between soprano and contralto?
A: Mezzo-soprano.
Who was the youngest Beatle?
A: George Harrison.
Who had a 1966 hit with 'Good Vibrations'?
A: The Beach Boys.
To what section of the orchestra do the bassoon and clarinet belong?
A: Woodwind.
How is singer Paul Hewson better known?
A: Bono Box.
What are performed at La Scala, Milan and at the auditorium in Covent
Garden, London?
A: Operas.
What were the surnames of Thomas and Arthur who collaborated to write
'the Savoy operas'?
A: Gilbert and Sullivan.
Which instrument has 47 strings and seven pedals, and was introduced
into the orchestra in the 19th century?
A: Concert Harp.
Which instrument is a keyboard reed-organ, powered by foot pedals and
used in American churches during the 1800s?
A: Harmonium.
Who wrote the music for West Side Story?
A: Leonard Bernstein.
Who wrote the Brandenburg Concertos?
A: J S Bach.
Which instrument's name translates literally as 'soft loud'?
A: Pianoforte.
Which composer wrote 27 piano concertos, 23 string quartets, 35
violin sonatas and more than 50 symphonies?
A: Mozart.
What was Madonna's first hit?
A: Like a Virgin.
Which jazz trumpeter recorded the albums Bitches' brew and Birth of
the Cool?
A: Miles Davis.
What nationality was the composer Jean Sibelius?
A: Finnish.
Which play by the French dramatist de Beaumarchais did Rossini turn
into and opera?
A: The Barber of Seville.
Which country home and opera house hosts an annual summer festival
established by John Christie in 1934?
A: Glyndebourne.
Which instrument do you associate with John William, Julian Bream and
Andres Segovia?
A: Philip Glass.
Which was Richard Wagner's last opera?
A: Parsifal.
Which useful musical device was invented by Johann Maeizel in 1814?
A: Metronome.
Which composer's works are known by K-numbers?
A: Mozart.
Which guitar maker produced the Stratocaster?
A: Fender.
Which instrument is a pocket-sized reed-0organ invented by Charles
Wheatstone in 1829?
A: Harmonica.
On which instrument was Franz Liszt an inspired performer?
A: Piano.
Which conductor said 'The English may not like music, but they
absolutely love the noise it makes'?
A: Thomas Beecham.
What are the 5-note pentatonic, the 6-note whole-tone, the 7-note
diatonic and the 13-note chromatic?
A: Scales.
What did Ceil Sharp collect?
A: Folk songs and dances.
Which jazz musician was known as Yardbird, or Bird?
A: Charlie Parker.
What is the name for the annual summer series of concerts held at the
Royal Albert hall, London, in which the audience originally walked
about?
A: The Proms / promenade concerts.
Who wrote Porgy and Bess?
A: George Gershwin.
Who wrote Italian and Scottish symphonies?
A: Mendelssohn.
Which symphony did Dvorak write during his time as director of the
National Conservatory in New York?
A: The 'New World' symphony.
What kind of songs did Charles Wesley write?
A: Hymns.
Disc jockey Alan Freed popularized and helped to name which type of
music form 1951?
A: Rock and Roll.
