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Ten Pieces - Anna Meredith
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Q.1
From which corner of the British Isles does she hail?
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Wales
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Scotland
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Ireland
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Cornwall
Q.2
Her first major broadcast work went out over BBC television in 2008 ... and instantly reached an estimated audience of how many people?
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15 million
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25 million
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30 million
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40 million
Q.3
The BBC holds the world's largest music festival in London every summer, broadcasting each of several dozen concerts over a number of weeks. The final night is known as ... ?
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Friday Night is Music Night
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The Last Night of the Proms
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The Concert of the Year
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Music for the Millions
Q.4
More than one of her works has broken fresh creative ground, including a concerto for orchestra with what form of soloist?
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Player of the 'musical saw'
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Bagpiper
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Beat-boxer
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Steel band (on oil-drum 'pans')
Q.5
In 2012 the National Youth Orchestra premiered Meredith's . What was intentionally surprising about this performance?
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None of the players were holding an instrument
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Everyone was playing down their mobile phone and the overall 'mix' was relayed to the auditorium
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None of the players were in the actual room where the audience sat
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The music was made without any of the performers using their hands (e.g. to clap, click, finger or bow their instruments)
Q.6
From Mozart's hunting-horns onwards (and probably before, too) musicians have enjoyed weaving natural and not-intentionally-musical man-made sounds into their pieces. Which of the following is genuine?
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The Cuckoo, in pieces from Dacquin's harpsichord work of that name ... to Strauss' charming (if, to us, a little unfortunately-titled) polka Im Krapfenwald'l
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Steam trains, e.g. Honegger's Pacific 321, Vivian Ellis' Coronation Scot and Sidney Torch's Wagon-Lit
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Sandpaper and a traditional mechanical typewriter in novelty pieces by Leroy Anderson
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All of the above
Q.7
Which of the following CANNOT be done by a human without special equipment?
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Clapping
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Humming
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Tap-dancing
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Whistling
Q.8
What was Meredith's first non-traditional composition?
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Axeman for electrified bassoon
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Wolves for sirens and synthesiser
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Tides for recorded sound (waves, whale-song etc.) with nose-flutes
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Cliff Face featuring live sounds of metal ladders and a concrete-mixer
Q.9
How does Meredith set about collecting her ideas for a new piece?
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Sitting in front of her computer
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With a blank sheet of music manuscript paper
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With a blank sheet of graph paper
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Sketching her ideas in graphic form onto completely blank paper
Q.10
What was Meredith's progression of cities during her education and early career?
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Glasgow ~ Birmingham ~ London
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Edinburgh ~ York ~ London
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Aberdeen ~ Manchester ~ London
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Dundee ~ Liverpool ~ New York
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