The Grand Portobello Musical Quiz
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The Grand Portobello Musical Quiz One Performance only -7.30pm 4th May 2020 The Grand Portobello Musical Quiz Slide 1 Quiz Outline • You will need a pencil and paper. • There are 20 multiple choice questions. • There are four bonus questions (not multiple choice). • There is one question about the quiz itself. • Four of the questions have a hint. • The hint will be shown if one or more contestants raise their hand (electronically or physically) when asked. The Grand Portobello Musical Quiz Slide 2 How it works • Have your microphone muted as we go through the questions. • Each correct answer scores 1 point. • If you needed to take the hint on a question which you answered correctly you score only 1/2 a point, (be honest!). • Anyone who scores over 25 points is cheating. • Anybody found cheating will be forced to listen to the whole of Richard Strauss’ Alpine Symphony. The Grand Portobello Musical Quiz Slide 3 Topics to be covered 1. Symphonies and Cities 2. Operettas and Musicals 3. Musical Scores and Notation 4. Great Plagiarisers of Music 5. The Deaths of Composers The Grand Portobello Musical Quiz Slide 4 The Question on the Quiz One of the 20 multiple choice questions you are about to see was taken (without permission) from the TV show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?”. It was worth £250,000. Which question was it? The Grand Portobello Musical Quiz Slide 5 Mute your microphones please The Grand Portobello Musical Quiz Slide 6 Round 1 Symphonies and Cities The Grand Portobello Musical Quiz Slide 7 Question 1 of 20 Shostakovich’s 7th symphony is named after the city where he was living at the start of the second world war. Which city is it? A : Kazan B : Moscow C : Bialystok D : Leningrad The Grand Portobello Musical Quiz Slide 8 Question 2 of 20 Two of Joseph Haydn’s symphonies are named after cities in England. The most famous is the London Symphony. Which is the other city? A : Birmingham B : Oxford C : Bristol D : Portsmouth The Grand Portobello Musical Quiz Slide 9 Question 3 of 20 One of Mozart’s greatest symphonies is named after the city of Prague where it was first performed. Which number is given to it in Kochel’s¨ catalogue? A : 31 B : 36 C : 38 D : 39 Would you like a hint? The Grand Portobello Musical Quiz Slide 10 Question 3 of 20 One of Mozart’s greatest symphonies is named after the city of Prague where it was first performed. Which number is given to it in Kochel’s¨ catalogue? A : 31 B : 36 C : 38 D : 39 Symphony No 39 doesn’t have a name. The Grand Portobello Musical Quiz Slide 11 Question 4 of 20 A movement in Schumann’s third symphony (the Rhenish) decribes a ceremonial procession in a cathedral on the river Rhine. Which cathedral city is it? A : Meinz B : Worms C : Speyer D:Koln¨ Bonus Question: Which movement describes the ceremony? The Grand Portobello Musical Quiz Slide 12 Round 2 Operettas and Musicals The Grand Portobello Musical Quiz Slide 13 Question 5 of 20 In which musical by Leonard Bernstein does the song ”Officer Krupke” appear? A : On the Town B : Wonderful Town C : West Side Story D : 1600 Pensylvania Avenue The Grand Portobello Musical Quiz Slide 14 Question 6 of 20 Kurt Weill wrote his well know song ”Mack the Knife” for one of his colaborative works with Bertol Brecht. Which work was it? A : The Threepenny Opera The Rise and Fall of B: the City of Mahagony C : Happy End D : The Seven Deadly Sins Bonus Question: For which work did he write the song “Surabaya Johnny“? The Grand Portobello Musical Quiz Slide 15 Question 7 of 20 For which musical did George Gershwin write the song ”I got Rhythm“? A : Of thee I sing B : Girl Crazy C : Oh Kay D : Lady be Good Would you like a hint? The Grand Portobello Musical Quiz Slide 16 Question 7 of 20 For which musical did George Gershwin write the song ”I got Rhythm“? A : Of thee I sing B : Girl Crazy C : Oh Kay D : Lady be Good The musical was later made into a film staring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. The Grand Portobello Musical Quiz Slide 17 Question 8 of 20 In which Gilbert and Sullivan operetta does the song ”Poor Wandering One“ appear? A : The Pirates of Penzance B : The Mikado C : The Gondoliers D : HMS Pinafore The Grand Portobello Musical Quiz Slide 18 Round 3 Scores and Notation The Grand Portobello Musical Quiz Slide 19 Question 9 of 20 The picture shows an extract from the second movement of a symphony by Beethoven. Which symphony is it? A : 3 B : 5 C : 7 D : 8 Bonus Question: What is the key of the third movement? The Grand Portobello Musical Quiz Slide 20 Question 10 of 20 Here is an extract from a work by Felice Anario (1560-1614) printed in the original notation. What is the first note in the Altus part? A:E B:F C:G D:A Would you like a hint? The Grand Portobello Musical Quiz Slide 21 Question 10 of 20 Here is an extract from a work by Felice Anario (1560-1614) printed in the original notation. What is the first note in the Altus part? A:E B:F C:G D:A Both inner staves are written in the C Clef. The Grand Portobello Musical Quiz Slide 22 Question 11 of 20 In his string quartet ”Crisantemi“ Puccini uses a tempo direction: ”Andante Mesto”. What is the meaning of the word ”Mesto” A : Calm B : Free C : With deep feeling D : Sad The Grand Portobello Musical Quiz Slide 23 Question 12 of 20 If a 3/4 waltz is given a tempo direction it means that the composer wants the conductor to beat 3 in a bar at a rate of 120 beats in one minute. It the conductor decides (as conductors do) to beat the same waltz in 1 in a bar, what should the tempo direction have be? A: B: C: D: The Grand Portobello Musical Quiz Slide 24 Round 4 Plagiarism by famous composers The Grand Portobello Musical Quiz Slide 25 Question 13 of 20 Wagner’s opening motif in Parsifal was taken from an earlier work by another composer. Wagner even had the score to hand during the composition of the first Act. Who was the other composer? A : Ludwig van Beethoven B : Giuseppi Verdi C : Franz Liszt D : Johannes Brahms The Grand Portobello Musical Quiz Slide 26 Question 14 of 20 Mozart’s 37th Symphony is very rarely performed today. The reason is that, apart from a short introduction, it was all the work of another composer. Who was that composer? A : Carl Stamitz B : Joseph Haydn C : Luigi Boccherini D : Michael Haydn Would you like a hint? The Grand Portobello Musical Quiz Slide 27 Question 14 of 20 Mozart’s 37th Symphony is very rarely performed today. The reason is that, apart from a short introduction, it was all the work of another composer. Who was that composer? A : Carl Stamitz B : Joseph Haydn C : Luigi Boccherini D : Michael Haydn Leopold Mozart thought that the other composer was a very bad influence on his son Wolfgang. The Grand Portobello Musical Quiz Slide 28 Question 15 of 20 The minuet movement of Schubert’s fifth symphony is closely modelled on a symphonic movement by another Vienese composer. Who was that composer? A : Wolfgang Mozart B : Jan Vaclav Vorisek C : Antonio Saliere D : Ludwig van Beethoven Bonus Question: How old was Schubert when he wrote his 5th Symphony? The Grand Portobello Musical Quiz Slide 29 Question 16 of 20 The final movement of Vivaldi’s gloria a rearrangement of a work by an earlier composer. Who was it?: A : Giovanni Ruggieri B : Giovanni Gabrielli C : Luigi Cantuccini D : Arcangelo Corelli The Grand Portobello Musical Quiz Slide 30 Round 5 The Deaths of Composers The Grand Portobello Musical Quiz Slide 31 Question 17 of 20 Which French baroque composer died as a result of stabbing himself in the foot? A : Jean-Phillipe Rameau B : Jean-Baptiste Lully C : Marc-Antoine Charpentier D : Francois Couperin Bonus Question: Name the work that Maurice Ravel wrote evoking the spirit of the French baroque keyboard suite. The Grand Portobello Musical Quiz Slide 32 Question 18 of 20 Which composer drowned when his ship was hit by a torpedo during the first world war. He was returning from the USA after a successful concert tour. A : Max Bruch B : Carl Nielsen C : Alexander Scriabin D : Enrique Granados The Grand Portobello Musical Quiz Slide 33 Question 19 of 20 Which composer died peacefully while listening to a radio broadcast of his fifth symphony? A : Jean Sibelius B : Ralph Vaughan-Williams C : Gustav Mahler D : Henrik Esrum-Hellerup Would you like a hint? The Grand Portobello Musical Quiz Slide 34 Question 19 of 20 Which composer died peacefully while listening to a radio broadcast of his fifth symphony? A : Jean Sibelius B : Ralph Vaughan-Williams C : Gustav Mahler D : Henrik Esrum-Hellerup He died at his lakeside home, sitting beside the fireplace where, some years before, he had burned the manuscripts of many of his works. The Grand Portobello Musical Quiz Slide 35 Question 20 of 20 Which composer’s head was severed from his body and stolen from his grave by a phrenologist shortly after his funeral? A : Mikhail Glinka B : Joseph Haydn C : Hector Berlioz D : Henry Purcell The Grand Portobello Musical Quiz Slide 36 The Answers Unmute your microphones please The Grand Portobello Musical Quiz Slide 37 Question 1 of 20 Shostakovich’s 7th symphony is named after the city where he was living at the start of the second world war.