ANSWERS TO MUSICAL IQ TEST 372. a. Gioachino Rossini
3. a. mezzo forte, medium loud
4. c. Yo Yo Ma
5. b. Franz Joseph Haydn
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ANSWERS TO MUSICAL IQ TEST 372. a. Gioachino Rossini
3. a. mezzo forte, medium loud
4. c. Yo Yo Ma
5. b. Franz Joseph Haydn
Ivan Pacheco Performs the I and E Snare Drum Solo
Amazing, even plays part of it with his elbow. He was a member of the Blue Devils, and this solo got him 1st place.
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1. b. Jacques
Offenbach
2. c. Thirty-two, several with
famous “nicknames”
3. b. Yes, but his fame was based on many other genres
of music.
4. d. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
5. a. very loud
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Answers to Musical IQ Test
35
1. b. George Frideric Handel
2. c. Claude Debussy
3. a. The
text, lyrics or any spoken parts of an opera, oratorio or musical.
4. d. Gianni Schicchi
5. c. Ludwig van Beethoven
How Classical Music Shaped Sondheim’s Songs
Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim has helped to create some of Broadway’s greatest stage shows. But he says the world of classical music is behind some of his deepest influences, including such composers as Sergei Rachmaninoff and Joseph-Maurice Ravel.
Sondheim, 82, studied classical music as an undergraduate at Williams College, then studied composition with composer Milton Babbitt.
On Saturday, he said that soon after he completed his most famous song, “Send in the Clowns,” from “A Little Night Music,” he thought, “Gee, that sounds familiar,” seeing the influence of Rachmaninoff.
When Mark Eden Horowitz, a senior music specialist at the Library of Congressasked about Ravel’s influence, Sondheim replied, “Have you heard ‘Sweeney Todd’?”
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