Error Log: Music

If you want a piece of music played really super fast, you would most likely use which of the following tempo markings?

Presto

What does subito piano instruct musicians to do?

suddenly become softer

The name of Baron Karl Von Drais’s Laufmaschine translates as

“running machine”

The composer of “The Great Crush Collision March” was BEST known for his

piano ragtime compositions

Who built Locomotion No. 1?

George Stephenson

Which English location is home to the world’s FIRST known lifeboat station?

Formby

What does the acronym RNLI stand for?

Royal National Lifeboat Institution

Which engineer took the world’s FIRST documented railway journey?

Richard Trevithick

What modern type of harmony did Adams utilize in Short Ride in a Fast Machine?

quintal

Which composition did David Bowie record?

“Space Oddity”

Franz Schubert set Wilhelm Müller’s poetry about wandering journeys in

song cycles

From the Earth to the Moon envisioned a means of travel centered on a

“space gun”

Which artist recorded the “Horse with No Name”?

America

Who FIRST attached a gasoline engine to a vélocipède frame?

Gottlieb Daimler

Sports injury studies report that the percentage of horseback riders who will experience an injury is approximately

81 percent

Which Shakespeare play was Hector Berlioz attending when he FIRST saw actress Harriet Smithson perform?

Hamlet

For which instrument did Fryderyk Chopin originally composed Marche funèbre?

piano

Which science historian wrote and narrated the documentary that inspired Saxon’s “747 (Strangers in the Night)”?

James Burke

Johann Strauss Sr. celebrated the new railways in mid-century Europe in a set of dances titled

Eisenbahn-Lust-Walzer

The first commercially successful railway, which hauled coal near Leeds, ran two steam locomotives named

Salamanca and Prince Regent

Who wrote the poetry that Schubert set in both Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise?

Wilhelm Müller

Franz Schubert’s FIRST song cycle focuses on the…

Experiences of a young miller

In which state did Andy Green set the current world land-speed record of 763 miles per hour?

Nevada

Who composed “Charlie Rutlage”?

Charles Ives

Which composition by John Philip Sousa remains among his most performed marches?

Stars and Stripes Forever!