Questions & Answers
Browse all 18 questions from the
Nature and Animals in Classical Music study set below.
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1
Which composer wrote 'The Swan' as part of 'The Carnival of the Animals'?
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A
Camille Saint-Saëns
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B
Ludwig van Beethoven
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C
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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D
Johann Sebastian Bach
2
Vivaldi's 'The Four Seasons' is a set of concertos that depicts the changing of what?
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A
Musical instruments
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B
Seasons of the year
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C
Ocean tides
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D
Phases of the moon
3
In Beethoven's 'Pastoral' Symphony No. 6, which bird is represented by the flute?
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A
Owl
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B
Eagle
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C
Nightingale
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D
Penguin
4
Rimsky-Korsakov composed a famous orchestral piece about the flight of which insect?
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A
Ant
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B
Bumblebee
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C
Butterfly
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D
Dragonfly
5
Which composer wrote the 'Symphony No. 6', which includes sounds representing a thunderstorm?
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A
Franz Schubert
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B
Ludwig van Beethoven
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C
Claude Debussy
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D
Joseph Haydn
6
The piece 'The Moldau' by Bedřich Smetana depicts the journey of what natural feature?
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A
A mountain
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B
A forest
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C
A river
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D
A volcano
7
Ottorino Respighi wrote a symphonic poem titled 'The Pines of...' which location?
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A
Rome
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B
Paris
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C
London
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D
Berlin
8
Which composer wrote a collection titled 'Lyric Pieces' which includes 'To the Spring'?
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A
Edvard Grieg
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B
Johannes Brahms
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C
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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D
Felix Mendelssohn
9
Claude Debussy's 'La Mer' is a famous orchestral composition inspired by what?
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A
The desert
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B
The forest
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C
The sea
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D
The mountains
10
Which composer wrote 'The Trout' quintet, inspired by a song he previously wrote about a fish?
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A
Franz Schubert
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B
Gustav Mahler
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C
Antonín Dvořák
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D
Robert Schumann
11
The 'Cuckoo' is a famous movement in which composer's 'The Carnival of the Animals'?
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A
Camille Saint-Saëns
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B
Maurice Ravel
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C
Igor Stravinsky
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D
Sergei Prokofiev
12
'The Lark Ascending' is a famous piece for violin and orchestra by which composer?
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A
Ralph Vaughan Williams
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B
Edward Elgar
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C
Benjamin Britten
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D
Gustav Holst
13
Which composer wrote the 'Peer Gynt' suite, which includes 'Morning Mood' representing the sunrise?
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A
Edvard Grieg
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B
Jean Sibelius
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C
Béla Bartók
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D
Richard Wagner
14
The movement 'Aquarium' from 'The Carnival of the Animals' uses the piano to represent what?
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A
Moving water
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B
Falling rain
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C
A thunderstorm
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D
Wind
15
'Winter' is one of the four concertos in the work 'The Four Seasons' by which Italian composer?
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A
Antonio Vivaldi
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B
Arcangelo Corelli
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C
Giuseppe Verdi
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D
Gioachino Rossini
16
Which composer is famous for the 'Grand Canyon Suite', depicting a natural landscape in the USA?
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A
Ferde Grofé
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B
Aaron Copland
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C
George Gershwin
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D
Leonard Bernstein
17
The piece 'In a Mountain Path' is associated with which composer's love for nature?
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A
Jean Sibelius
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B
Sergei Rachmaninoff
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C
Dmitri Shostakovich
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D
Modest Mussorgsky
18
Which animal is depicted in the movement 'The Elephant' from Saint-Saëns' suite?
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A
Elephant
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B
Giraffe
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C
Lion
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D
Zebra
