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!

Compound meter divided the beat into

three parts

Which city FIRST introduced omnibus service?

Paris

Which distinction belongs to Robert Fulton’s Clermont?

The first commercially successful steamboat

Where does the finale of Symphonie fantastique?

At a witches’ Sabbath

To improvise runway lighting, La Guardia’s engineers repurposed

A water pumpt to feed power to flare pots

Looking back in 2019, how did Byford describe the writing of “747 (Strangers in the Night)”

As “a moment of magic”

Steppenwolf’s “Born to Be Wild” opens with the lyric

“Get your motor running”

Which English city sat near the coal mine that launched the first commercially successful railway in 1812?

Leeds

The MOST common chord progression in tonal music is

Predominant-dominant-tonic

Four basic properties of a musical sound?

pitch, duration, volume, and timbre.

A funeral march is characterized by frequent

Dotted rhythms

The second movement of Symphonie fantastique is titled

“A Ball”

Short Ride in a Fast Machine concludes with a coda built around an abrupt

D major triad

Which modern country has yielded some of the EARLIEST physical evidence of the wheel?

Poland

Which instruments add a dotted-note countermelody when the first theme returns in “March to the Scaffold”?

Bassons

Whose guitar work is featured in “747 (Strangers in the Night)”

Paul Quinn

In “March to the Scaffold,” the third theme of fortissimo calls suggests a

jeering crowd

Which work is MOST similar in style to The Padstow Lifeboat?

Hector Berlioz’s “March to the Scaffold”

At which point does “Charlie Rutlage” stop resembling a straightforward folk performance?

Second verse

Which funeral featured “Dead March”?

Winston Churchill

“Meeresstille” depicts a

Calm sea

In The Padstow Lifeboat, the break-strain conveys a turbulent sea through

Glissandos

The opening song of Die schöne Mullerin is

“Das Wandern”

In standard notation, the bass clef places the pitch F on the

Fourth line from the bottom of the staff

John A. Lomax included a version of “Rutlage” in

Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads

Measures that change meter in rapid succession produce

Mixed meter

At John F. Kennedy’s funeral, the coffin was accompanied by a military band playing

Marche funebre

“Bug Plunge” is build in

Verse-chorus form

Which device produced the timbre of the chorus melody in “Daisy Bell”

IBM 704

Which city introduced omnibus service FIRST?

Paris

The A string on a guitar sounds

below C3

Which of the following can be described as a “blues-rock” band?

Canned Heat

Which of the following was NOT composed by Aaron Copland?

a. Rodeo

b. Appalachian Spring

c. Rite of Spring

d. Billy the Kid

Rite of Spring

Two nineteenth-century composers who composed programmatic orchestral works are

Felix Mendelssohn and Hector Berlioz

Although “There She Is” uses conventional song form, the composer creates interest by

Transposing the melody a whole step up in the second section

Winston Churchill’s funeral music included a composition by

George Frideric Handel

Which of the following was NOT a cowpuncher?

a. Kid White

b. Young Preller

c. Wiley Collins

d. Charlie Rutledge

Wiley Collins

The hocket technique originated in the

Thirteenth century

Which of the following is NOT a music critic?

a. Lindsay Zoladz

b. Christopher Small

c. Barney Hoskyns

d. Graham Oliver

d. Graham Oliver

Credit for emancipating dissonance through the twelve-tone method goes to

Arnold Schoneberg

The term boneshaker refers to a

Velocipede

The first major auto race in the US was held in which state?

Illinois

In “Fast Car,” the phrase “Be someone” appears in which section?

Chorus

What famous pieces did John Philip Sousa create?

Semper Fidelis, Stars and Stripes Forever , The Washington Post

A metronome mark of 110 BPM can best be described as

Moderato

Which continent did Homo sapiens reach around 40k years ago

Europe

Which US opened the first underground railway?

Boston

In the early 19th century how many ships on AVG were wrecked each yr along the coast of GB

1800

Who composed Saudades do Brasil

Darius Milhaud

What was the name of the first ship to make a transatlantic crossing powered solely by steam

Sirius

How many people survived the sinking of the Titanic

706

characters of titanic

Barrett

Bride

Fleet

Stevedore

Pitman

Lighttoller

4th Officer and Boxhall

Hitchens

Captain Smith

Murdoch

Bellboy

Ismay

Andrews

Mr. Widgery

Mr. Oliver

Mr. Hartley

Mr. Joughin

Mr. Weikman

Mr. Beecham

Mrs. Robinson

Mrs. Hutchinson

Mr. Crawford

Mr. Whitely

Mr. Etches

The earliest gliders were constructed by

Sir George Cayley

An example of an astronaut-focused song is Peter Schilling’s

Major Tom

The New York Timed reported that during the 1865 blackout, passengers stuck in the New York City subway were entertained by 3:

Bagpiper

Harmonica player

Tenor