130 Music Trivia Questions and Answers
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Easy Music Trivia Questions
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What term means singing without instrumental accompaniment?
A cappella
A cappella means singing without instrumental accompaniment. Gregorian chant, recitative, and aria are distinct vocal music forms or styles.
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Which band released the album Abbey Road?
The Beatles
The Beatles released Abbey Road in 1969, their eleventh studio album.
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Who provided lead vocals on Appetite for Destruction?
Axl Rose
Axl Rose provided the lead vocals on Guns N' Roses' debut album.
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Who released the album Back to Black?
Amy Winehouse
Amy Winehouse released Back to Black in 2006, blending soul, jazz, and pop influences. The album helped bring a vintage soul sound to a large modern audience.
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What is the lowest standard adult singing voice?
Bass
Bass is the lowest standard adult voice type in choral and classical classifications.
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Which bebop co-founder was known by the nickname Bird?
Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker, an alto saxophonist, was nicknamed Bird and became one of bebop's defining improvisers. His rapid, harmonically advanced lines strongly influenced later jazz.
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At the 1824 premiere of his Ninth Symphony, what was true of Beethoven?
He could not hear the audience applaud
The contralto Karoline Unger turned him around to face the audience, who were on their feet waving hats and handkerchiefs. Beethoven had stood next to the conductor the whole time beating time from memory, while Michael Umlauf actually led the orchestra.
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Which artist became the most-awarded Grammy winner in 2023?
Beyoncé
At the 65th Grammy Awards on February 5, 2023, Beyoncé's 32nd win made her the artist with the most Grammy Award wins at that time.
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Who composed the waltz The Blue Danube?
Johann Strauss II
Johann Strauss II composed The Blue Danube in 1866. It became one of the most famous examples of the Viennese waltz tradition.
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In which country did the blues develop?
United States
The blues developed in African American communities in the United States, especially in the South.
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Which band released the song Bohemian Rhapsody?
Queen
Queen released Bohemian Rhapsody in 1975 on the album A Night at the Opera. The song combines ballad, operatic, and hard-rock sections in an unusually elaborate structure.
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Who composed the orchestral work Bolero?
Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel composed Bolero in 1928 as a ballet score. Its hallmark is a single melody repeated over an unchanging snare-drum rhythm while the orchestration gradually grows.
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Who fronted U2?
Bono
Bono is U2's lead vocalist.
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Which musical quality does BPM measure?
Tempo
BPM stands for beats per minute, and it fixes how fast a piece runs: at 120 BPM, 120 beats go by in a minute, roughly a brisk walking pace. It says nothing about how high, how loud, or in what key the music sounds.
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Who composed the opera Carmen?
Georges Bizet
Georges Bizet composed Carmen, which premiered in Paris in 1875. Its melodies include the Habanera and the Toreador Song.
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"Jingle Bells" was written as "One Horse Open Sleigh". Which holiday is it usually said to have been intended for?
Thanksgiving
James Lord Pierpont published the song in 1857 as a generic sleighing tune, and its lyrics never mention Christmas, or any specific holiday, at all. Local histories in both Medford, Massachusetts, and Savannah, Georgia, each claim he wrote it for their own Thanksgiving Sunday school program, and both towns still argue over the credit.
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In common time, how many quarter-note beats are in each measure?
4
Common time is written as 4/4, meaning each measure contains four quarter-note beats. It is one of the most frequently used meters in Western music.
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Which band released the album The Dark Side of the Moon?
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd released The Dark Side of the Moon in 1973. Its songs are linked by themes such as time, money, conflict, and mental strain.
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What does DJ stand for?
Disc jockey
The name comes from radio, where a presenter 'rode' the discs. The term predates club DJing by decades.
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In standard equal temperament, how many semitones make up one octave?
12
An octave in the standard twelve-tone equal-tempered system contains 12 equal semitone steps. Each semitone multiplies the frequency by the same ratio.
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Which composer wrote the violin concertos known as The Four Seasons?
Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Vivaldi published The Four Seasons in 1725 as four violin concertos. Each concerto uses musical ideas to evoke a season and accompanying scenes.
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Who fronted Queen?
Freddie Mercury
Born Farrokh Bulsara in Zanzibar in 1946, he studied graphic design at Ealing Art College in London before taking the stage name Freddie Mercury. He died on 24 November 1991, one day after publicly confirming he had AIDS.
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What musical term marks a gradual increase in loudness?
Crescendo
The word comes from the Italian crescere, to grow, and is usually shown in sheet music as an opening 'hairpin' wedge rather than spelled out in full. Its opposite, a gradual softening, is called a diminuendo or decrescendo.
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In which New York City borough did hip-hop emerge?
The Bronx
Hip-hop emerged as a cultural movement in the Bronx during the 1970s.
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Which band released the album Hotel California?
Eagles
The Eagles released Hotel California in 1976. Its title track became one of the defining recordings of 1970s rock, with Don Henley singing lead vocals.
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Which genre grew from African American musical traditions in New Orleans?
Jazz
Jazz developed in New Orleans in the early 20th century from African American musical traditions, including blues and ragtime. Its improvisational style and syncopated rhythms helped make it one of America’s most influential musical forms.
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Who fronted The Doors?
Jim Morrison
Jim Morrison was The Doors' lead singer.
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Who recorded the jazz album Kind of Blue?
Miles Davis
Miles Davis recorded Kind of Blue in 1959 with a sextet that included John Coltrane and Bill Evans. Its modal approach gave the musicians spacious frameworks for improvisation.
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Which singer was known as the King of Pop?
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson was widely known as the King of Pop.
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Who fronted Nirvana?
Kurt Cobain
Kurt Cobain was Nirvana's lead vocalist.
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Who composed the opera La Bohème?
Giacomo Puccini
Puccini's 1896 opera follows young artists living in Paris and includes the arias “Che gelida manina” and “Mi chiamano Mimì.” It is one of the most frequently performed operas in the standard repertory.
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Who composed the opera La traviata?
Giuseppe Verdi
Verdi's La traviata premiered in Venice in 1853. Its story was adapted from Alexandre Dumas fils's novel and play about a Parisian courtesan.
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Who released the album Like a Prayer?
Madonna
Madonna released Like a Prayer in 1989.
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Which instrument is strongly associated with Louis Armstrong?
trumpet
Louis Armstrong is strongly associated with the trumpet; the Smithsonian preserves a trumpet custom-made for his use.
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Which is the lowest-pitched standard member of the orchestral string family?
Double bass
The double bass produces the lowest standard orchestral string sounds. Its large body and long strings allow it to support the bass line beneath the other strings.
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Which composer wrote the opera The Magic Flute?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mozart's The Magic Flute premiered in Vienna in 1791, the last year of his life. It is a German-language singspiel, mixing spoken dialogue with song.
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Which composer wrote the oratorio Messiah?
George Frideric Handel
Handel composed Messiah in 1741, and it premiered in Dublin the following year. Its best-known section is the Hallelujah Chorus.
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Who fronted The Rolling Stones?
Mick Jagger
Mick Jagger has been The Rolling Stones' lead singer.
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Which composer wrote the piano work popularly called the Moonlight Sonata?
Ludwig van Beethoven
The Moonlight Sonata is Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, published in 1802. Its nickname was applied after Beethoven's death.
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What does MTV stand for?
Music Television
Music Television launched in 1981, and its first video was 'Video Killed the Radio Star'.
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How many lines are on a standard musical staff?
Five
A standard staff has five horizontal lines and four spaces. Notes placed on or between them represent different pitches according to the clef.
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In which opera does the aria Nessun dorma appear?
Turandot
Nessun dorma is an aria for the character Calaf in Puccini's unfinished opera Turandot. It became especially famous through performances by Luciano Pavarotti.
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Which band released the album Nevermind?
Nirvana
Nirvana released Nevermind in 1991, with Smells Like Teen Spirit as its breakout single. The album helped bring Seattle grunge into mainstream rock.
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Who composed the ballet The Nutcracker?
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Tchaikovsky composed The Nutcracker for its 1892 premiere in Saint Petersburg. Its suite includes the famous Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy.
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Which orchestral instrument family includes the oboe?
Woodwind
The oboe is a woodwind instrument because it produces sound with a double reed. Its penetrating tone helps it stand out when an orchestra tunes to its A.
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Tones an octave apart share what?
The same pitch class
Each step up an octave doubles the sound's frequency, so a note at 440 hertz becomes 880 hertz an octave higher. The name comes from the Latin word for eight, since a standard major scale spans eight notes from one repetition of a pitch to the next.
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The Ode to Joy is the choral finale of which Beethoven symphony?
The Ninth
Beethoven set words from Friedrich Schiller's poem 'Ode to Joy' in the last movement of his Ninth Symphony, first performed in Vienna in 1824. It was the first time a leading composer had put singers into a symphony, and the melody now serves as the anthem of the European Union.
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Which band released the album OK Computer?
Radiohead
Radiohead released OK Computer in 1997. Its songs examine technology, alienation, and modern life through a sound that expanded beyond conventional guitar rock.
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Who released the album Purple Rain?
Prince
Prince released Purple Rain in 1984.
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In which country did reggae develop as a distinct popular-music style?
Jamaica
Reggae emerged in Jamaica in the late 1960s from earlier styles including ska and rocksteady. Its offbeat rhythm and bass-heavy sound later spread around the world.
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Whose 1967 recording of Respect became a landmark soul hit?
Aretha Franklin
Otis Redding wrote and recorded Respect in 1965 as a working man's plea to his wife. Aretha Franklin turned it around in 1967, rearranging the song, adding the spelled-out title hook and her sisters on backing vocals, and it became an anthem of both the civil rights and women's movements. Redding is said to have remarked that she had taken the song from him.
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Which composer wrote the orchestral prelude commonly called Ride of the Valkyries?
Richard Wagner
Ride of the Valkyries comes from the beginning of Act III of Wagner's opera Die Walküre. It is part of his larger Ring cycle of four music dramas.
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Which Scottish poet is traditionally credited with writing the words to “Auld Lang Syne”?
Robert Burns
In 1788 Burns sent the words to a song collector, insisting they were an old fragment he had 'taken down from an old man's singing' rather than a new composition of his own. The title is Scots for 'old long since', usually translated as 'for the sake of old times'.
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Who fronted Led Zeppelin?
Robert Plant
Robert Plant was Led Zeppelin's lead singer.
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Who was The Who's lead singer?
Roger Daltrey
Roger Daltrey was The Who's lead singer.
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Which band released the album Rumours?
Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac released Rumours in 1977 during a period of intense personal tension within the band. Its polished songs include Go Your Own Way and Dreams.
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What accidental raises a note by one semitone?
Sharp
A sharp raises a note by one semitone; the other options are genuine accidentals with different pitch effects.
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In a jazz standard, what is the middle passage where one player improvises over the band called?
Solo
Solo is Italian for alone. It marks a passage played or sung by one performer while the rest of the ensemble falls silent or drops back to quiet accompaniment. The plural, marking a small group picked out the same way, is soli.
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What is a composition featuring a solo instrument with an orchestra called?
Concerto
A concerto sets one or more soloists against an orchestra, often creating a musical dialogue between them. A sonata is generally written for a smaller ensemble or a solo instrument.
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What is the highest standard adult singing voice?
Soprano
Soprano is the highest standard adult voice type in choral and classical classifications.
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What does staccato tell a musician about notes?
Short and detached
Staccato indicates that notes should be played briefly and separately.
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How many strings does a conventional acoustic guitar have?
6
The common guitar has six strings, usually tuned E-A-D-G-B-E from lowest to highest. Twelve-string guitars add doubled courses of strings.
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How many keys does a standard modern piano have?
88
A standard piano has 88 keys: 52 white keys and 36 black keys. Some smaller keyboards and historical pianos use different totals.
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How many valves does a standard B-flat trumpet have?
3
The three valves lengthen the trumpet's tubing in different combinations, allowing the player to produce the chromatic scale. Some specialized trumpets have additional valves.
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How many strings does a standard ukulele have?
4
A standard ukulele has four strings and is commonly tuned G-C-E-A. Its compact size and re-entrant tuning help give it its bright sound.
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Who fronted Aerosmith?
Steven Tyler
Steven Tyler has been Aerosmith's lead vocalist.
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A symphony is generally written for what ensemble?
Orchestra
A symphony is generally a multi-movement composition written for a large orchestra. The modern symphony often includes four contrasting movements, such as a fast opening movement and a slower second movement.
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What do musicians call three or more notes played at the same time?
Chord
A chord is three or more different notes sounding together; two notes together make an interval instead. The commonest chords are built from three notes and sound bright when major, darker when minor.
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Which instrument family includes the timpani?
Percussion
Timpani are tuned drums played with padded mallets. Their pitch can be changed by adjusting the tension of each drumhead with a pedal or tuning mechanism.
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What notation symbol identifies the higher register and right-hand piano part?
Treble clef
Treble clef is used for higher-pitched notes and commonly the right hand in piano music. The alternatives are also real clef names.
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Which orchestral family includes the trombone?
Brass
The trombone is a brass instrument whose sound is produced by vibrating the player's lips.
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How many strings does a standard violin have?
4
The four violin strings are tuned in fifths: G, D, A, and E. The violin is the highest-pitched standard member of the orchestral string family.
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How many letter names are used in the basic Western musical alphabet?
7
The basic musical alphabet uses A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. These seven letter names repeat in higher and lower octaves.
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Which singer recorded What a Wonderful World?
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong recorded the widely known song What a Wonderful World.
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Who released the album What's Going On?
Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye released What's Going On in 1971. The concept album addresses war, poverty, environmental damage, and social injustice through a connected soul sound.
Medium Music Trivia Questions
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Who recorded the jazz album A Love Supreme?
John Coltrane
John Coltrane recorded A Love Supreme in 1964 with his classic quartet. The four-part suite is both a landmark of modern jazz and a deeply spiritual statement.
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Which singer released the album Jagged Little Pill?
Alanis Morissette
Alanis Morissette released Jagged Little Pill in 1995; it won the Grammy for Album of the Year.
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The bass clef is also known by which other name?
F clef
The bass clef is called the F clef because its two dots sit either side of the line for the F below middle C, fixing that line's pitch for everything else on the staff.
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In which decade did bebop jazz emerge?
1940s
Bebop emerged in the 1940s as musicians developed faster tempos, complex harmonies, and more demanding improvisation. It marked a shift toward jazz intended primarily for listening.
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Campanology is the study and practice of what?
Bell ringing
Campanology covers the casting, tuning and ringing of bells, from the Late Latin campana, meaning bell. In the English change-ringing tradition a band rings a tower's bells through mathematical sequences of permutations rather than through tunes.
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Who released the album Blonde on Blonde?
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan released Blonde on Blonde in 1966.
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Who released the 1971 album Blue?
Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell released Blue in 1971, using intimate songwriting and unusual tunings to explore love, travel, and independence. It is widely regarded as one of her defining albums.
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Who sang on AC/DC's Back in Black?
Brian Johnson
Brian Johnson sang lead vocals on AC/DC's Back in Black.
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Which instrument is Yo-Yo Ma best known for playing?
Cello
Yo-Yo Ma is among the most recognised cellists in the world, above all for his recordings of Bach's six unaccompanied cello suites.
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How many movements became conventional for many Classical-era symphonies?
Four
The established Classical-era pattern was often fast, slow, dance-like, and fast movements. Composers sometimes departed from four, but it remains the conventional answer for the standard symphony.
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Who composed Clair de lune?
Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy composed Clair de lune as the third movement of his piano suite Suite bergamasque.
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In which city is the Concertgebouw concert hall?
Amsterdam
The Concertgebouw is Amsterdam's celebrated concert hall, opened in 1888.
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Which city was the original home of Motown Records?
Detroit
Berry Gordy founded Motown Records in Detroit in 1959; the name comes from the city's Motor Town nickname.
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What musical term means that the volume should gradually decrease?
Diminuendo
Diminuendo, also called decrescendo, instructs performers to gradually reduce the volume, the opposite of a crescendo.
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Who wrote the song I Will Always Love You?
Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton wrote I Will Always Love You and first released it as a single in 1974, nearly twenty years before Whitney Houston's version.
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Which band released the album Dookie?
Green Day
Green Day released Dookie in 1994. Its energetic pop-punk songs, including Basket Case and When I Come Around, helped push the genre into the mainstream.
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In record releases, what does EP stand for?
Extended play
An extended play holds more than a single but less than an album. Its counterpart LP is a long play.
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Who composed the opera Fidelio?
Ludwig van Beethoven
Fidelio was Beethoven's only completed opera. Its story centers on Leonore, who disguises herself as Fidelio to rescue her imprisoned husband.
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Who composed Rhapsody in Blue?
George Gershwin
George Gershwin composed Rhapsody in Blue, which premiered at Aeolian Hall in New York in February 1924.
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Who composed the “Surprise” Symphony?
Joseph Haydn
Haydn's Symphony No. 94 earned its nickname from a fortissimo chord that jolts listeners awake during a quiet, gentle theme.
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Which dance-music genre first developed in Chicago clubs?
House
House grew out of Chicago's Black and Latino club scene in the early 1980s and took its name from the Warehouse, where DJ Frankie Knuckles stitched disco records together over a drum machine to keep the floor moving.
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What was the original character of France's national anthem, La Marseillaise?
A call to arms
La Marseillaise was written during the French Revolution as a military marching song and call to arms. Its forceful language reflects the conflict in which it was created.
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What is the nickname of Mozart's final symphony, No. 41?
Jupiter
Mozart's final symphony is Symphony No. 41, commonly known as the Jupiter Symphony.
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Who wrote The Sound of Silence?
Paul Simon
Paul Simon wrote The Sound of Silence, which Simon & Garfunkel recorded in 1964.
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Which composer wrote the orchestral suite The Planets?
Gustav Holst
Gustav Holst wrote The Planets between 1914 and 1916. Its seven movements are named for astrological characters rather than for astronomical descriptions alone.
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Who composed the ballet Romeo and Juliet?
Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Prokofiev composed the ballet Romeo and Juliet, based on Shakespeare's play.
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Who is credited with inventing the saxophone?
Adolphe Sax
Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax patented the saxophone in 1846. He designed it to combine the projection of brass with the agility of woodwinds.
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Who wrote the words to 'The Star-Spangled Banner'?
Francis Scott Key
Francis Scott Key wrote the words that became 'The Star-Spangled Banner'; John Stafford Smith wrote the tune used for it.
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A luthier builds and repairs which family of instruments?
Stringed instruments such as violins and guitars
A luthier makes and restores stringed instruments, from the French luth, meaning lute. The work covers violins, cellos, guitars and mandolins.
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Which group recorded the jazz standard Take Five?
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
The Dave Brubeck Quartet recorded Take Five, composed by its saxophonist Paul Desmond. Its distinctive five-beat meter made it unusual for a major jazz hit.
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Which album won eight Grammy Awards at the 1984 ceremony?
Thriller
Michael Jackson’s Thriller won eight Grammy Awards at the 1984 ceremony, including Album of the Year. It also produced two of his signature hits, “Billie Jean” and “Beat It.”
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Who first recorded Fast Car?
Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman wrote and first recorded Fast Car for her 1988 debut album.
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In which year was The Star-Spangled Banner adopted as the U.S. national anthem?
1931
Congress adopted The Star-Spangled Banner as the U.S. national anthem in 1931, more than a century after it was written.
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Which Vienna concert hall contains the world-famous Golden Hall?
Musikverein
The Musikverein opened in 1870, and its Golden Hall is prized for both its gilded interior and its acoustics. It is the home of the Vienna Philharmonic and of the New Year's Concert broadcast around the world.
Hard Music Trivia Questions
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Which composer wrote the opera Wozzeck?
Alban Berg
Alban Berg composed Wozzeck, which premiered in Berlin in 1925.
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Who fronted Roxy Music?
Bryan Ferry
Bryan Ferry was Roxy Music's lead vocalist and frontman.
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Which American composer wrote The Unanswered Question?
Charles Ives
Charles Ives composed The Unanswered Question for chamber ensemble around 1908, setting a solo trumpet against quiet strings.
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Which musician developed Afrobeat, fusing West African rhythms with jazz and funk?
Fela Kuti
Fela Kuti built Afrobeat in Lagos from the late 1960s, pairing long horn-driven grooves with lyrics attacking Nigeria's military governments.
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Who composed Black Angels for amplified string quartet?
George Crumb
George Crumb composed Black Angels for electric string quartet in 1970; hearing it prompted David Harrington to found the Kronos Quartet.
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Konpa, a popular dance music style, comes from which country?
Haiti
Nemours Jean-Baptiste built konpa in Haiti in the mid-1950s out of the meringue rhythm, adding horn sections and a steady mid-tempo pulse. It became the dominant popular music of the country and travelled with the Haitian diaspora across the Caribbean and into Miami and Montreal.
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Who composed the experimental work 4'33", in which the performer does not intentionally play the instrument?
John Cage
John Cage composed 4'33" in 1952 as a work centred on the ambient sounds heard during the performance.
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Who recorded The Köln Concert, a landmark solo-piano improvisation album?
Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett improvised The Köln Concert in a single 1975 performance; it became the best-selling solo piano album in jazz.
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Which musical articulation term indicates a connected performance?
Legato
Legato indicates that notes should be performed smoothly and connected, without perceptible breaks between them. The term comes from the Italian word for “tied,” reflecting how the notes are musically linked.
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Who composed Quartet for the End of Time while held in a German prisoner-of-war camp?
Olivier Messiaen
Olivier Messiaen wrote Quartet for the End of Time while imprisoned at Stalag VIII-A, where it was first performed for fellow prisoners in January 1941.
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Which record producer developed the Wall of Sound?
Phil Spector
Phil Spector developed the Wall of Sound, a dense, heavily layered production style used on many 1960s pop recordings.
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Around which year did Bartolomeo Cristofori build the first piano?
1700
Cristofori was an instrument keeper for the Medici court in Florence who built the piano to fix a harpsichord problem: plucked strings could not vary in volume by touch. He named it 'gravicembalo col piano e forte', harpsichord with soft and loud, later shortened to just 'piano'.
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Which composer pioneered musique concrète?
Pierre Schaeffer
Pierre Schaeffer pioneered musique concrète in Paris in the late 1940s, building pieces from recorded sounds treated as raw musical material.
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Which composer wrote The Lark Ascending?
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams composed The Lark Ascending for violin and orchestra, inspired by a poem by George Meredith.
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Which singer was known as the Queen of Tejano music?
Selena
Selena Quintanilla-Pérez was widely known as the Queen of Tejano music before her death in 1995.
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Which composer created Different Trains for string quartet and tape?
Steve Reich
Steve Reich composed Different Trains in 1988 for the Kronos Quartet, deriving its melodies from the speech patterns of recorded interviews.
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Which instrument traditionally provides a continuous drone in Hindustani classical music?
Tanpura
The tanpura provides a continuous drone that establishes the tonal foundation for a Hindustani classical performance.
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Which recording format did Columbia Records introduce commercially in 1948?
The 12-inch LP record
Columbia introduced the 12-inch 33 1/3-rpm long-playing record in 1948; RCA Victor answered with the 45-rpm single the following year.
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Which electronic instrument is played by moving the hands near two antennas, without ever touching it?
The theremin
The theremin, patented by Leon Theremin in 1928, is played with no physical contact: one antenna controls pitch, the other volume.
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Which group recorded Amen, Brother, the source of the famous Amen break?
The Winstons
The Winstons recorded Amen, Brother in 1969 as a B-side; its short drum break became one of the most sampled recordings in music.
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Who was the singer and lead guitarist of the New York band Television, whose 1977 debut was Marquee Moon?
Tom Verlaine
Tom Verlaine, born Thomas Miller and renamed after the French poet, sang and played lead guitar in Television. The band was a fixture of the CBGB scene, and its 1977 debut Marquee Moon is built around long interlocking guitar lines rather than short punk blasts.
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- What term means singing without instrumental accompaniment?
- Who released the 1971 album Blue?
- Who composed the waltz The Blue Danube?
- Who composed the orchestral work Bolero?
- Who wrote the song I Will Always Love You?
- Who composed the opera Fidelio?
- Who composed the “Surprise” Symphony?
- Which band released the album Hotel California?
- Who composed the opera La Bohème?
- Which composer wrote the oratorio Messiah?
- Which composer wrote The Planets orchestral suite?
- Which band released the album Rumours?
- How many keys does a standard modern piano have?
- Who wrote the words to 'The Star-Spangled Banner'?
- How many strings does a standard violin have?
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