1. Music Trivia (2 points each)
a) What Italian composer of sacred music is best known for his Miserere? Gregorio Allegre
b) Which song sung at the Last Night of the Proms is Thomas Arne’s most famous work?Rule Britannia
c) With which American orchestra was Eugene Ormandy chiefly associated? Philadelphia Orchestra
d) Which French novelist wrote the play ‘L’Arlesienne’ which Bizet set to music.Alphonse Daudet
e) What sort of instrument is a flageolet? Stringed, wind or percussion?Wind
f) Of which 80’s pop group was Morrissey the lead singer/The Smiths
g) With which musical instrument is Miles Davis chiefly associated?Trumpet
h) Who wrote the ballet ‘Giselle’ Adolph Adam
i) How many piano concertos did Beethoven write?Five
j) In which year did Sandie Shaw win the Eurovision Song contest with ‘Puppet on a String’?1967
k) Who had a hit with the song ‘One day in your Life’Michael Jackson

2. Opera (4 points each)
Who wrote the music for the following operas (2 points) and in which country or region were the operas set? (2 points)
a) The Flying Dutchman Wagner, Norway
b) Aida Verdi, Egypt
c) Tosca Puccini, Rome, Italy
d) Madam Butterfly Puccini, Nagasaki, Japan
e) Cosi Fan Tutti Mozart, Rome
f) La Traviata , Verdi, Paris, France
g) Carmen, Bizet, Spain
h) Peter Grimes Britten, Suffolk, England
i) Iolanthe Sullivan, Fairyland or Westminster London

3. Stars of Classical Music Stage - Who are they and where were they born?

Name; 5 points each
a) Margot Fonteyn b) Anna Pavlova c) Tito Gobbi d) Kiri TeKanawa e) Rudolph Nureyev
Birthplace; 5 points each
a) Reigate UK b) St Petersburg Russia c) Veneto Italy d) Gisborne NZ e) Russia (on a train)

4. Orchestral Music (2 points each)
a) What is the lowest note that can be played on a modern viola? C
b) What is the frequency (in Hertz) of the orchestra tuning note, the A above middle C? 440 hz.
c) What minor key signature has 5 flats? Bb Minor
d) What does the term l’istesso tempo mean in English. At the same speed
e) How would you set about getting music from a Pyrophone set light to it! There is one in the Science museum!


5. ‘Name That Tune’ and the Composer?
(5 points tune, 5 points composer)
Choose from Composers; Burt Bacherach, Antonio Carlos Jobin, Harold Arlen, Cole Porter.

a) Well, Did you Evah, Cole Porter


b) This Guy’s in love with you, Burt Bacherach


c) The Girl from Ipanema, Antonio Carlos Jobin


d) Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars, Antonio Carlos Jobin


e) One for my Baby, Harold Arlen

6. Bonus Question (5 points)
Someone in this quiz was born within 5 miles of Bletchingly. Who? Margot Fonteyn, Reigate, Surrey