From: wilcox@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
Subject: Want to be a viola player?
Date: 8 Sep 92 11:45:02 GMT
Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620

The following comes, without permission, from the magazine of the promenaders
of last year's proms season, and is almost certainly non-copyright.

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YOU TOO CAN BE A VIOLA PLAYER WITH THE BBC SYMPATHY ORCHESTRA

Look what we have found. While sifting through the BBC's dustbins the other day
we came across this. The pass mark is 10% but be careful, over 45% and you are
overqualified. The marks for each question are shown on the right.

ENTRY EXAM FOR THE BBC SYMAPTHY ORCHESTRA---VIOLA PLAYERS

1 Who wrote the following:-
	a) Beethoven's 6th Symphony
	b) Faure Requiem
	c) Wagner's Ring Cycle                                            [15]

2 Tchaikovsky wrote 6 symphonies including Symphony no. 4. Name the other five.
                                                                          [5]

3 Explain `Counterpoint' or write your name on the reverse of the paper.  [10]

4 Which of the following would *you* tuck under you chin?
	a) a timpani   b)an organ   c)a cello   d)a viola                 [1]

5 Can you explain `Sonata Form'? Answer yes or no.                        [5]

6 Which of the following literary works was made the subject of a Verdi opera?
	a) First among Equals -- Jeffrey Archer
	b) Macbeth -- William Shakespeare
	c) Noddy and Big Ears -- Enid Blyton                              [5]

7 Domenico Scarlatti wrote 555 harpsichord sonatas for which instrument?  [5]

8 Arrange the following movements in order of speed, starting with the slowest
first.
	a) Quickly   b) Slowly   c) Very Quickly   d) At a Moderate Pace. [4]

9 Where would you normally expect to find te conductor during a performance?
                                                                          [5]

10 Which of the following wrote incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream?
	a) Des O'Connor   b) Mickey Mouse  c) Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
	d) Terry Wogan                                                    [5]

11 Which of the following is the odd one out?
	a) Sir Colin Davis  b) Andrew Davis c) Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
	d) Desmond Lynham                                                 [5]

12 Arrange the following words into a well known Puccini opera.
	Boheme, La                                                        [5]

13 Within five minutes, how long is Chopin's Minute Waltz?                [5]

14 From which of the following countries did Richard Strauss come?
	a) Venezuela  b) Sri Lanka  c) Germany  d) Japan

15 For what town were Haydn's `Paris' symphonies written?

16 Which is the odd one out?
	a) Fantasy Overture `Romeo and Juliet' -- Tchaikovsky
	b) `Romeo and Juliet' -- Berlioz
	c) `Romeo and Juliet' Ballet -- Prokofiev
	d) `Ten Green Bottles' -- anon.                                   [5]

17 From which song do the following lines come?
	`God save our gracious Queen, Long live our Noble Queen.'         [5]

18 Spell the following musical terms.
	allegro, rallentando, crotchet, pizzicato, intermezzo             [5]

19 Tosca is a character found in which Puccini opera?                     [5]

20 Arrange the following letters to form the name of a well known British
broadcasting corporation.
	C, B, B.                                                          [5]


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Should anyone need the answers, I will post them in a few weeks time.


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Stephen Wilcox             |   Remember what happened to the dinosaurs!
wilcox@maths.oxford.ac.uk  |    I did---and look what happened to me.