There will be ten questions, the reader who gets the most right gets a lifetime subscription to The Music Salon. No t-shirt, though, we haven't got those yet. But soon. Maybe.
Oh, and no, you are not supposed to use Google.
- How many albums did the Sex Pistols release?
- What is the difference between serialism and dodecaphonic composition?
- Who, of these famous guitar players, is still alive? Eric Clapton, B. B. King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Francesco Corbetta.
- How many different pitches comprise an Italian augmented sixth chord?
- What does the title of Adele's latest album, 25, refer to?
- What pitch is the highest string of a Renaissance lute tuned to? A Baroque lute?
- How many tympani players are needed to perform Berlioz' Requiem?
- If you were dancing a branle, what country would you likely be in?
- In music theory, what is a pedal?
- Also in music, what does "Sturm und Drang" refer to?
UPDATE: You folks had better get busy with this quiz, because tomorrow I am going to put up the answers!
4 comments:
Only one, certainly. Was relieved that I managed to get even that. :-)
(And that one is because I had looked up lots of Christmas carols during the season and one of them-- I'd have to look it up again-- is sung to a branle melody. Why it stuck in my head, who knows; branle v. braule, probably.)
I'll give it a few days and put up the answers.
I'm investigating, when I can. Would never have thought I'd be checking out the Sex Pistols at this late date, ha.
I think the inspiration for these occasional quizzes (this is, I think, the third I have put up) dates back to my days as an undergraduate. One day I walked by the bulletin board and saw that someone had put up a musical skill-testing question: "What is the order of the instrumental solos in the song "Tighten Up" by Archie Bell and the Drells. I just thought that was so cool I have remembered it ever since. Cool, that is, that someone would pose that as a skill-testing question in a university department of music. I realize now that it was probably supposed to be subversive or something. In fact, I included that very question in one of my quizzes. These days, of course, with Google, it is pretty easy to find most of these answers...
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