Multiple Choice Questions

Which brass instrument is versatile?
  • True
  • Trumpet
  • Tuba
  • Valves
The trombone is derived from what Italian term?
  • Trumpet
  • tromba,for trumpet.
  • trumpet, horn, trombone, and tuba.
  • Middle 15th century.
What invention in 1828 allowed composersmore flexibility in scoring for the trumpet.
  • Valves
  • False
  • Trumpet
  • the material, the flare-shaped bell, and the vibration of the player's lipson the mouthpiece.
True/False: With Brass instruments pitch in brass instruments depends on the length of the air column.
  • True
  • True Pitch is therefore directly related to the size of the instrument.
  • trumpet, horn, trombone, and tuba.
  • the material, the flare-shaped bell, and the vibration of the player's lipson the mouthpiece.
Which brass instrument was frequently used in church music?
  • Trombone
  • tromba,for trumpet.
  • Tuba
  • Trumpet
True/False: Improvements were made in the construction of the instrument throughout the16th and 17th centuries, and it became an essential instrument in town andcourt bands. In the 17th century, there were four different types of trombones,one for each register (high to low). Now, only two are consistently used: the tenor andthe bass trombone.
  • True
  • False
True/False: Pictures at an Exhibition began as a set of pianopieces written inThese were later orchestrated by the Frenchcomposer Maurice Ravel inHowever, Ravel's orchestration is not the only well-known arrangement of this piece. In the early 1970s,the rock group Emerson,Lake & Palmer created their own version of Pictures at an Exhibition for electronickeyboards, guitar, and drums.
  • True
  • False
True/False: Mussorgsky also features the tuba in Bydlo, the fourth movement in his celebrated ten-movement suite, Pictures at an Exhibition. This suite was inspired by an exhibition of paintingsby Mussorgsky's friend Viktor Hartmann (1834-1873). Bydlo evokes Hartmann's painting of two tired oxen pullinga heavy cart.
  • True
  • False
What are the four main brass instruments in order of highest to lowest pitch?
  • Middle 15th century.
  • trumpet, horn, trombone, and tuba.
  • tromba,for trumpet.
  • the material, the flare-shaped bell, and the vibration of the player's lipson the mouthpiece.
True/False: Modest Mussorgsky's symphonic poem Night on the Bald Mountain, writtenin 1867, features the trombone and the tuba playing the main theme in unison against a relentless, eerie backdrop of strings. Never performed during Mussorgsky's lifetime, the composition was arranged for orchestra by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and had its premiere in 1886.
  • True
  • False
True/False: The first trumpets were made of cylindrical lengths of pipeand were capable of playing only 8 or 9 notes of the harmonicovertone series. Referred to as natural trumpets, suchinstruments were used in orchestras until the early nineteenthcentury.
  • True
  • False
What three factors lend brass instruments their characteristic "brassy" timbre?
  • True Pitch is therefore directly related to the size of the instrument.
  • the material, the flare-shaped bell, and the vibration of the player's lipson the mouthpiece.
  • Valves
  • trumpet, horn, trombone, and tuba.
True/False: Richard Wagner's work as a composer, poet, theaterdirector, and set designer took 19th-century opera in a new direction. The Ride of the Valkyries marksthe opening of the third act of the opera Die Walküre. In this act, eight warrior-maidens, daughters of the great Wotan, gather and sing about the plight of one sister (Brünhilde) who has defied their father.
  • True
  • False
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