Which of these musical forms is the odd one out?
  • Round
  • Rondo
  • Fugue
  • Canon
What is the correct term for music created spontaneously when a player, most typically of a keyboard or other harmonic instrument (maybe the harp or guitar), 'fills in' by making it up as they go along?
  • Impromptu
  • Arabesque
  • Extemporisation
  • Rhapsody
Which instrument comes in variants including the concert, Celtic, cross-strung and chromatic?
  • Piano
  • Guitar
  • Harp
  • Lute
Paul von Janko, in the 1880s, proposed a technical standardisation that could make life far simpler for vast numbers of musicians, but it did not gain popularity. What was it?
  • A piano keyboard with multiple rows of keys (almost more typewriter-style) each arranged in whole-tone scales, so all tonal keys would feel the same shape under the player's hands (and no more all-different scale fingerings, for instance)
  • Music staves running down the page instead of across, so that the 'rhythm axis' ran vertically and the 'pitch axis' left-to-right in keeping with the keys on a piano. The system was named Klavarskribo ('keyboard script'), and publicised, using the then-also-new planned international language, Esperanto
  • Janko realised it was somewhat perverse that in standard Western musical notation, the shorter a note lasts, the more ink is required to indicate this (a demi-semi-quaver has three tails; a semibreve, lasting over 30 times as long, doesn't even have a stem). He accordingly proposed an inverse scheme which would make music less cluttered on the eye while also saving space and expense for publishers, buyers and players alike
  • He invented the letter-notation system known as Tonic Sol-Fa
Those sad souls who only recognise one organ piece, probably know this one as (and if they remember all of that right, they probably congratulate themselves on their erudition): it is of course that iconic pre-Gothic work which was arrestingly (if somewhat incongruously) used as the theme tune to the film , the one 'that goes: 'Da-da-dah ... ... ... da-da-da - dum - dum - DUM' ( )'. Which of the following points is still regarded as true about the origins of this piece?
  • There is an autograph score (i.e. a fair-copy in the composer's original manuscript) confirming this is one of Bach's own works
  • The title Toccata and Fugue is known to be genuine
  • The piece was indeed originated in the key of D minor, and for performance on the organ
  • (Pick this Answer only if you believe NONE of the above to be true)
Fairly closely related to the Impromptu is the Humoresque (a work title which seems something of a hostage to fortune: 'Buy this and play it, but you can't claim your money back if your audience fails to smile or laugh'!).Who wrote the widely-familiar example of this genre, which also became fairly widely wedded to a set of semi-scurrilous lyrics from the world of railway travel (a world with which the composer himself was reportedly obsessed), and which began as follows: ?
  • Aaron Copland
  • Antonin Dvorak
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  • Aleksandr Borodin
Many respected composers were nurtured on, or later absorbed and used, the folksongs of their native lands: Bela Bartok in Hungary, Ralph Vaughan Williams and several others in Britain; Canteloube with his enchanting and atmospheric , for instance. One of the pioneer activists in the British folksong movement was a man with a most splendidly appropriate name for this role: who was he?
  • Cedric Fidler
  • Joseph Singer
  • Cecil Sharp
  • Samuel Tunesmith
Composers have always felt entitled to 'help themselves' from music happening around them in nature, the weather and human activity ~ birdsong, Chopin with his raindrops, Kenneth Alford with his March (reputedly starting with the two-tone whistle of this military gentleman before he took any shot on the golf course). Eric Coates in the 1930s wrote two Suites, the first of which starts with a movement depicting Covent Garden market, and which in turn incorporates a catchy, whistleable tune from an old London street-cry. Which is the title or catchphrase of this 'open-air commercial'?
  • A Pear for a Penny
  • Lavenders Blue
  • Who will buy my fresh red roses?
  • Cherry Ripe
Standard modern concert pitch is such that the A above middle C represents a frequency of 440Hz (cycles per second); Baroque pitch has been (at least retrospectively) standardised to equate with A♭ in this tuning. What, therefore, is the frequency of Concert A at Baroque pitch?
  • 415Hz
  • 423Hz
  • 432Hz
  • 466Hz
At the end of a musical event, British (and other English-speaking) audiences may request an from the artist/s: a piece performed again, or maybe something else appropriate to conclude the concert and bring everyone 'back down to earth' from whatever cultural and/or emotional heights they had been scaling together. Presumably it is felt duly sophisticated to use a foreign term to express this request. The French themselves do not use this term; what do they do or say instead, in the and elsewhere?
  • They call out 'Bis!' ( = 'twice' ; 'give us another'!)
  • They switch from irregular 'white-noise' applause into a long slow handclap
  • They stamp on the floor, slowly at first and then gradually accelerating until their request is acceded to
  • They stand up and clap above their heads
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