Question: The tambourine, bells and rumble-pot are all what type of instrument?
Answer: Percussion

Question: The reed pipe and recorder are what type of instrument?
Answer: Woodwind

Question: Vocal music in the Renaissance is noted for an increasingly elaborate what?
Answer: polyphonic style

Question: What liturgical form besides motets endured throughout the entire Renaissance period?
Answer: masses

Question: Monody, the madrigal comedy, and intermedio are all precursors to what?
Answer: opera

Question: The cello, contrabrass and fortepiano were new instruments during what period?
Answer: Baroque

Question: What happened to the shawn and the wooden cornet during the Baroque period?
Answer: fell into disuse

Question: The timpani ans castanets are what type of instrument?
Answer: Percussion

Question: The serpent is what type of instrument?
Answer: Brass

Question: Which string instrument often played the basso continuo parts?
Answer: theorbo

Question: What was less standardized during the Baroque era?
Answer: the types of instruments used in ensembles

Question: Two violins, a viola, and a cello make up what type of group?
Answer: a classical era string quartet

Question: Keyboard instruments included the pip organ, harpsichord and what other instrument?
Answer: clavichord

Question: What is an example of a stringed chordal instrument during the Baroque period?
Answer: a lute

Question: From the 1750's to the early 1830's is the era of Mozart and what other composer?
Answer: Haydn

Question: Classical music can mean all Western art music or more specifically from the 1750's to when?
Answer: the early 1830s

Question: The broad meaning of classical music stretches back from today to what era?
Answer: the Medieval era

Question: Classical musicians continued to use many instruments from what era?
Answer: Baroque

Question: The theorbo and what other Baroque instrument fell into disuse?
Answer: rackett

Question: The Baroque violin became what modern instrument?
Answer: the violin

Question: What did the Baroque trumpet become?
Answer: the regular valved trumpet

Question: The violin, cello, contrabass and what other instrument form the string section of the orchestra?
Answer: viola

Question: The flute, oboe and bassoon are all what type of instrument?
Answer: Woodwinds

Question: What instrument fell out of use after the 1760s?
Answer: the harpsichord

Question: What instrument was the precursor of the tuba?
Answer: the ophicleide

Question: To whom is the "standard complement" attributed to?
Answer: Beethoven

Question: PIccolo, contrabassoon, and trombones add to the triumphal finales of what piece by Beethoven?
Answer: Symphony No. 5

Question: How long was symphonic instrumentation faithful to Beethoven's after he died?
Answer: several decades

Question: What did Beethoven expand in his Symphonies, 3, 5, 6 and 9?
Answer: timbral "palette"

Question: A Piccolo and trombones provides the illusion of storm and what in Beethoven's Sixth Symphony?
Answer: sunshine

Question: What instrument did the modern piano take over for in the Romantic era?
Answer: fortepiano

Question: How many double bass players were typically used in the Baroque orchestra?
Answer: two

Question: What wasn't rich enough for many Romantic composers?
Answer: the standard orchestral palette

Question: Classical sections were expanded in the Romantic era for a fuller and bigger what?
Answer: sound

Question: What is a celestes?
Answer: a bell-like keyboard instrument

Question: When do saxophones first appear in scores?
Answer: the late 19th century

Question: Saxophone was featured as a solo instrument in what Sergei Rachmaninoff piece?
Answer: Symphonic Dances

Question: How is the saxophone features in Ravel's Bolero?
Answer: as a member of the orchestral ensemble

Question: The euphonium usually played parts marked as what?
Answer: "tenor tuba"

Question: Who wrote The Planets?
Answer: Gustav Holst

Question: What is the name of the modified member of the horn family appearing in several works by Strauss?
Answer: The Wagner tuba

Question: Which symphony of Anton Bruckner's does the Wagner tuba have a prominent role in?
Answer: Symphony No. 7 in E Major

Question: Who wrote the ballet Swan Lake?
Answer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Question: What will orchestras use to augment their regular rosters?
Answer: freelance musicians

Question: What Debussy piece features a cornet?
Answer: La Mer

Question: What type of instrument appears occasionally in the 20th and 21st century styles of classical music?
Answer: Electric

Question: What type of musicians besides classical have experimented with electronic instruments?
Answer: popular

Question: What type of instrument is the gamelan?
Answer: electronic

Question: In what did the bagpipe fill an important role?
Answer: early classical music,

Question: What instrument gained prominence in the 19th and 20th century?
Answer: the acoustic guitar

Question: Vihuelas and hurdy-gurdies are currently associated with what type of music?
Answer: popular

Question: What type of temperament became accepted during the 18th century?
Answer: equal temperament

Question: When did equal temperament become accepted as the dominant musical temperament?
Answer: the 18th century

Question: What temperament is the English Renaissance performed in?
Answer: meantone temperament

Question: What have classical trained performers done extensively?
Answer: studied classical music

Question: What does a B.mus. or M.mus. degree include?
Answer: individual lessons from professors

Question: To what level is training for classical music often required?
Answer: postgraduate

Question: Performance of classical music requires proficiency in what type of reading?
Answer: sight-reading

Question: Performance of classical music requires proficiency in what type of principles?
Answer: harmonic

Question: Familiarty with the style expected for any given composer is required for what kind of performance?
Answer: classical music

Question: What brothers have had significant classical training?
Answer: Van Halen brothers

Question: Billy Joel and Elton John have both had what type of training?
Answer: classical

Question: Rock and pop musicians may have degrees in what type of music?
Answer: commercial

Question: What gender of musician has historically made up a large amount of professional orchestras?
Answer: male

Question: Women were first hired in professional orchestras for what position?
Answer: harpist

Question: What year did the Vienna Philharmonic first accept women?
Answer: 1997

Question: Which major orchestra was the last to appoint a woman to a permanent position?
Answer: the Berlin Philharmonic

Question: Who was the principal flute for the Vienna Philharmonic in 1996?
Answer: Dieter Flury

Question: In what year did the Vienna Philharmonic face protests in the US?
Answer: 1997

Question: Who was the first woman admitted to the Vienna Philharmonic?
Answer: Anna Lelkes

Question: What instrument did Anna Lelkes play?
Answer: harp

Question: How many female members were part of the Vienna Philharmonic in 2013?
Answer: six

Question: Who was the Vienna Philharmonic's first female concertmaster?
Answer: Albena Danailova

Question: The National Symphony Orchestra is led by what gender of violinist?
Answer: female

Question: The double bass, brass and percussion sections are predominately what gender?
Answer: male

Question: What type of audition are expected to eliminator gender or racial prejudice?
Answer: 'blind' auditions

Question: In what section of the New York Philharmonic do women outnumber men?
Answer: violin

Question: Works of classical repertoire exhibit what in their use of orchestration and harmony, and form?
Answer: complexity

Question: What is usually written in song forms?
Answer: popular styles

Question: The concerto, symphony, sonata and opera are examples of what type of musical forms?
Answer: sophisticated