English Music and Composers

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1. Who wrote "Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis"? Vaughan Williams Finzi Elgar Purcell

2. Which of these planets is not in "The Planets Suite" by Gustav Holst? Mercury Pluto Neptune Saturn

3. The words for the song cycle "On Wenlock Edge" by Vaughan Williams are by which poet? Tennyson Wordsworth Housman Frost

4. Which composer set Wordsworth's poem "Intimations of Immortality" to music? Elgar Finzi Howells Holst

5. Who wrote the melody that Britten used as the main theme in "A Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra"? Handel Purcell Haydn Rachmaninov

6. The song "The Vagabond" is a song from which song cycle? Earth and Air and Rain by Finzi Six Songs From A Shropshire Lad by Butterworth Canticles by Britten Songs Of Travel by Vaughan Williams

7. Which early English composer wrote "This is the Record of John"? Purcell Byrd Gibbons Tallis

8. Who wrote the ballet music for the "The Perfect Fool"? Holst Britten Bantock Butterworth

9. Vaughan Williams wrote the score for the film "Scott of the Antarctic". True or false? True False

10. Which composer was born in Gloucester, was a cathedral organist, wrote Hymnus Paradisi, and taught at the St Paul's Girls' School in London? Howells Holst Bliss Wood