Recent posts under tag music

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For what instrument or instruments was Modest Mussorgsky's 1874 work "Pictures at an Exhibition" composed?

posted Sep 30, 2020 by Vishal

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A mellotron is what kind of musical instrument?

posted Jun 25, 2020 by Pushpak Chauhan

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Which jazz bandleader disappeared in December 1944 while flying over the English Channel?

posted Jun 3, 2020 by Ujjwal Mehra

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Wynton Marsalis is known for playing what type of music?

posted May 9, 2020 by Varuna Magar

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What music is Wu-Tang Clan known for?

posted Apr 25, 2020 by Madhavi Latha

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Which composer wrote the "Water Music"?

posted Apr 21, 2020 by Maninder Bath

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Which is a 2012 Broadway musical with which Cyndi Lauper is associated?

posted Apr 14, 2020 by Varuna Magar

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After the records of the UK Singles Chart started in 1952 who was the first singer to be No 1?

posted Apr 8, 2020 by Maninder Bath

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Ludwig van Beethoven originally referred to his symphony No. 3 in E flat major (Op. 55) by what name?

posted Mar 27, 2020 by Rahul Vaidya

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The music from which artist or artists closed the fiesta of British music at the closing ceremony of the 2012...........

posted Dec 12, 2019 by Amarvansh

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Donna Summer was popular in what genre of music?

posted Nov 7, 2019 by Saif Khanam

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What orchestral string instrument has a deeper tone than a violin, and higher than a cello?

posted Nov 5, 2019 by Anuradha Tabyal

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What instrument is associated with Pablo Cassals?

posted Sep 6, 2019 by Karan Joglekar

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What was the name given to a type of xylophone consisting of large stones, dating from 2,500 - 4,000 BC found in China?

posted Aug 2, 2019 by Mridul

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Which instrument, with a range of around 4 octaves, has its lowest string tuned to G below middle C, with...............

posted Jul 10, 2019 by Brijesh Talwar

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With which country do you associate the sitar?

posted Jun 21, 2019 by Rahul Vaidya

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When they played together in 1970 musicians Bobby Whitlock, Carl Radle, Jim Gordon and Eric Clapton were known as what?

posted May 23, 2019 by Maninder Bath

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What does the song Way back into love means?

posted May 20, 2019 by Jettro Zamora (jettr0)

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For which musical instrument is rosin useful?

posted Apr 14, 2019 by Vishal

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Who, the highest paid of any performer in music hall in the early 20th century and knighted in 1919, wrote..............

posted Mar 11, 2019 by Basabdatta Mukherjee

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Which 18th century German composer wrote over 40 operas including "Orfeo" and "Alceste", comic operas...................

posted Dec 20, 2018 by Prithvi

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Which Russian composer, after writing "The Firebird" for the Russian ballet, became a US citizen in 1945?

posted Nov 27, 2018 by Dilbagh

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Which brass musical instrument has a slide mechanism that enables the sounding length of the tube to be adjusted?

posted Oct 9, 2018 by Kapil Kapoor

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In musical notation, what word means "higher in pitch by a semitone"?

posted Sep 28, 2018 by Aarati Mahajan

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Which describes the saxophone-like wooden bodied musical instrument known as an octavin?

posted Aug 27, 2018 by Varuna Magar

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During World War II the British Broadcasting Corporation prefaced many of its broadcasts by opening bars of which music? [MCQ]

posted Aug 18, 2018 by Mishthy Mukherjee

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Which of these musicians became famous for playing the saxophone? [MCQ]

posted Aug 13, 2018 by Akriti

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Which of these instruments is usually played with a bow? [MCQ]

posted Aug 9, 2018 by Varuna Magar

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Which Mughal ruler banned music and dancing? [MCQ]

posted Jul 4, 2018 by Subham Singh

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Who wrote the symphonic suite "Scheherazade"? [MCQ]

posted Jun 27, 2018 by Deepak Chitragar

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Which of these is a European stringed keyboard instrument known from the late Medieval, through the Renaissance......... [MCQ]

posted Jun 20, 2018 by Tapesh Kulkarni

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Which conductor had tenure with the Philadelphia Orchestra for 44 years? [MCQ]

posted Jun 19, 2018 by Aastha Joshi

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Which musical term denotes a slide in pitch which moves in discrete steps, such as dragging a finger over the........... [MCQ]

posted Jun 14, 2018 by Vishal

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Who composed the music for the musical "Chess"?

posted Jun 5, 2018 by Saif Khanam

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Which musical term denotes a vocal slide between two pitches? [MCQ]

posted Jun 2, 2018 by Anuradha Tabyal

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What are the musical creations of Krishnadevaraya (king of old Vijay Nagar empire)?

posted May 31, 2018 by Latha Latha

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Which of these is a style of music? [MCQ]

posted Apr 20, 2018 by Anshika Utadi

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Vocal music in mediaeval Christian Latin liturgy is often called what kind of chant? [MCQ]

posted Apr 16, 2018 by Rahul Chandel

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With which instrument were the following people associated in the 1960s: Pete Quaife, Chas Chandler..................... [MCQ]

posted Apr 11, 2018 by Kuldeep Apte

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Which of these musicals is set in France following Napoleon's fall from power, during the restoration................... [MCQ]

posted Mar 26, 2018 by Amarvansh

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What was the signature tune of 1950s popular pianist Winifred Attwell? [MCQ]

posted Mar 7, 2018 by Varun Kumar

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What was the composer Wolfgang Mozart's middle name? [MCQ]

posted Mar 5, 2018 by Sandeep Bedi

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Zydeco is a type of music from which country?

posted Feb 22, 2018 by Rajiv Chauhan

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Who is known as “Father of Karnataka music”?

posted Feb 14, 2018 by Sudeshna Das

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Which German-born composer became a naturalised Englishman, wrote 30 operas in the 18th century? [MCQ]

posted Feb 3, 2018 by Kapil Kapoor

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Who, though he died at 35, wrote over 600 works including 23 string quartets, 5 string quintets, 21 piano............... [MCQ]

posted Jan 19, 2018 by Prachi Sharma

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Which of these is an early wind instrument, dating from the Mediaeval, Renaissance and Baroque periods, that............ [MCQ]

posted Jan 18, 2018 by Atif

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Which winner of an Oscar, a Grammy, an Emmy, a Tony and a Pulitzer, wrote musicals with Hart, Hammerstein and Sondheim? [MCQ]

posted Jan 17, 2018 by Balwinder

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Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool are collectively known as which band? [MCQ]

posted Jan 10, 2018 by Rahul Chandel

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Where did the ancient Kulintang music develop? [MCQ]

posted Dec 12, 2017 by Parampreet Kaur