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 renaissance painter Davies The Shakespearean character Falstaff The knight and traveller Mandeville The arctic explorer Franklin

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

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? Edward Elgar Ralph Vaughn Williams Benjamin Britten Charles Ives

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? Thomas Paine Patrick Henry Thomas Jefferson Samuel Adams

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

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

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