Lesson T6.2.1

T6.2.1 History of the music performed and listened to Quiz: KS3 Music, Unit 6

20 questions

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Lesson T6.2.1, History of the music performed and listened to: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 Music (National Curriculum), Unit 6: Understanding music and its history, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. In which period did the Baroque era roughly take place?

    • About 1820 to 1900
    • About 1600 to 1750
    • About 1900 to 1950
    • About 1750 to 1820

  2. Which period is associated with Haydn, Mozart and early Beethoven?

    • The Baroque period
    • The Medieval period
    • The Romantic period
    • Classical period

  3. Which period is associated with Chopin, Liszt and Wagner?

    • The Baroque period
    • The Classical period
    • The Renaissance period
    • The Romantic period

  4. What was plainsong or plainchant?

    • Unaccompanied sung chant
    • A bebop style from the 1940s
    • Opera with spoken dialogue
    • A serialist technique

  5. Which period is associated with the madrigal and the motets of Palestrina?

    • The Baroque
    • The Romantic
    • Renaissance
    • The Medieval

  6. What was the main keyboard instrument of the Baroque alongside the organ?

    • Theremin
    • Synthesizer
    • Harpsichord
    • Glockenspiel

  7. Which period saw the rise of jazz as a major musical style?

    • The Medieval period
    • The Renaissance period
    • The 20th century
    • The Baroque period

  8. What effect did the Industrial Revolution have on music?

    • Mass-produced instruments and wider audiences
    • It banned the performance of religious music
    • It ended the use of all orchestral instruments
    • It introduced the first electronic synthesizer

  9. Which period's music is most characterised by the basso continuo?

    • Romantic
    • Baroque
    • Impressionist
    • Classical

  10. A composer lived in Vienna in the 1780s, writing symphonies and piano sonatas in clear forms. Which period fits?

    • Serialist twentieth-century music
    • Classical
    • Medieval period music
    • Romantic period music

  11. A piece has a dramatic programme and a large orchestra. Which period is most likely?

    • Medieval
    • Renaissance
    • Romantic
    • Baroque

  12. A 20th-century composer used twelve-tone technique. What approach is this?

    • Serialism
    • Terraced dynamics
    • Plainsong
    • Basso continuo

  13. Why was the piano developed as an instrument in the 18th century?

    • It was designed to be played underwater
    • A wider range of loud and soft
    • It could only play one note at a time
    • It replaced all church organs immediately

  14. A student learns that the Ars Nova was a 14th-century movement. Which period is this?

    • Medieval
    • Baroque
    • Romantic
    • Renaissance

  15. What does rock and roll owe to earlier styles?

    • Blues and country, with a backbeat
    • Gregorian chant and plainsong in churches
    • Opera and chamber music for small groups
    • Gamelan and raga from Asia and Indonesia

  16. Which fact best explains the rise of public concerts in the 18th century?

    • Paying middle-class audiences
    • The invention of electric amplification
    • A ban on all private music-making
    • The end of all church music

  17. Why is studying music history useful for a performer?

    • It proves that older music is always better
    • It removes the need for any listening
    • It means performers never need to rehearse a piece
    • It shows how styles and notation changed

  18. Which change in notation is typical of the move from Renaissance to Baroque music?

    • The first use of tablature
    • The disappearance of all written notation
    • A move from staff notation to graphic scores
    • Clearer chords and figured bass notation

  19. A composer in the early 1900s rebelled against tonal rules. Which movement is linked to this?

    • Modernism
    • Baroque ornamentation
    • Early Classical sonata form
    • Medieval plainchant

  20. Which period first made the concerto grosso popular?

    • Classical
    • Medieval
    • Baroque
    • Romantic

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