Music for the Human Voice

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1. In Vaughn Williams's 'Sir John in Love', who is the John referred to in the title? The arctic explorer Franklin The renaissance painter Davies The Shakespearean character Falstaff The knight and traveller Mandeville

2. Which choral work takes its libretto from a German manuscript found in 1803 near the Benedictine abbey of Benediktbeuern? Mendelssohn's 'The first Walpurgis Night' Brahms's 'German Requiem' Orff's 'Carmina Burana' Beethoven's 9th Symphony

3. One Verdi opera tells the tale of the Violetta's affair with Alfredo Germont. Alfredo's father forbids the relationship, and Violetta eventually ends up pining away and dying of tuberculosis. What is this opera? Aida Il Trovatore La Traviata Rigoletto

4. Requiems, adapted from the text of the Latin mass for the dead, have always been a popular theme for composers. Who composed a 'War Requiem' honoring the dead of both World Wars? Ralph Vaughn Williams Edward Elgar Charles Ives Benjamin Britten

5. What vocal range was sung by the famous singers Carlo Broschi, Alessandro Moreschi, and Dominico Mustafa? Soprano Tenor Alto Bass

6. What was the first American Opera ever performed at La Scala in Milan? Answer: (Three Words -- Think 'Summertime')

7. Randall Thompson's 'The Testament of Freedom' is a setting to music of the works of what American Patriot? Patrick Henry Thomas Paine Samuel Adams Thomas Jefferson

8. On what work of Shakespeare is Bernstein's 'West Side Story' based? Othello King Lear Macbeth Romeo and Juliet

9. Whose 1607 'Orfeo' is considered by some to be the oldest surviving example of Opera? Giovanni Palestrina Claudio Monteverdi Phillipe Verdelot Costaneo Festa

10. Beethoven's 9th symphony includes a setting of the text of what German Poet? Johann Wolfgang Goethe Friedrich von Schiller Reiner Rilke Theodor Mueller