Music History quiz

More questions about Music History

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1. 1 Easy

   Which English city is widely regarded as the birthplace of heavy metal?

   Answer: Birmingham

   Why: A press took two of Iommi's fingertips in 1965; he then fretted with thimbles melted from a washing-up bottle and used banjo strings.

2. 2 Medium

   In which US state did country music's 1927 Bristol Sessions take place?

   Answer: Tennessee

   Why: Producer Ralph Peer recorded the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers during the historic 1927 Bristol Sessions.

3. 3 Hard

   In which Italian city did Antonio Stradivari build his violins?

   Answer: Cremona

   Why: Stradivari stayed in one Cremona workshop from 1680 until his death in 1737; of some 1,100 instruments about 650 survive.

4. 4 Easy

   How old was Mozart when he began composing his first pieces?

   Answer: Five

   Why: Leopold wrote them down for the boy and labelled the page: compositions from the first three months after his fifth birthday.

5. 5 Medium

   What musical term indicates that a piece should be played very loudly?

   Answer: Fortissimo

   Why: Fortissimo is the superlative of forte, from Latin fortis, strong; Tchaikovsky pushed on to ffff in the Pathétique's first movement.

6. 6 Hard

   Which composer was a German mystic and polymath nun?

   Answer: Hildegard of Bingen

   Why: Hildegard invented her own language, the Lingua ignota, and in 2012 became only the fourth woman named a Doctor of the Church.