Entertainment: Music trivia questions
5102 multiple-choice Entertainment: Music trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- Who sang the song Hot Legs?
- Who performed the song Brown Eyed Girl in 1967?
- This classic rock band performed the song Take Me in Your Arms.
- What rock band performed the song Machinehead?
- Which of these bands performed the 1994 song Hold My Hand?
- Which of these country bands performed the song If a Broken Heart Could Kill?
- Which 80s band performed Face the Day?
- Who performed the song Long Haired Country Boy?
- What band from Charlottesville, Virginia was popular with grassroots campaigning until their hits, What Would You Say and Ants Marching hit the Top 40 in 1994?
- This Austrian musician is famous for Rock Me Amadeus, a song inspired by the Oscar-winning film, Amadeus.
- This rock band, formed in 1978 by Jim Peterik and Frankie Sullivan, performed the song Eye of the Tiger.
- This British rock band, which debuted in 1968, performed the songs In My Time of Dying, Stairway to Heaven and Thank You.
- In 1991, this rock band from York, Pennsylvania released their album Mental Jewelry, which was based on the writings of Indian philosopher, J. Krishnamurti.
- This jazz musician created the album, Bitches Brew in 1969, after being influenced by Jimi Hendrixs electric and eclectic sounds.
- In 1993, this band released their debut album August and Everything After, which featured the hit song Mr. Jones.
- The 2004 Grammy Award for Best Film Soundtrack went to which film?
- This remake of The Crystals 1963 classic Da Doo Ron Ron was a mammoth #1 hit for this actor turned singer in 1977.
- Cows and people in the streets or, more aptly, A thousand people in the streets is from which Buffalo Springfield’s song?
- Which is not a line from Alanis Morissettes song You Oughta Know?
- Which of these completes the lyric from the song, Long Cool Woman by The Hollies: She was a long cool woman ......?
- Who sings, what many people think of as Is that you baby, or just a bridge of sighs”? The actual lyric is Is that you baby, or just a brilliant disguise.
- Fugue was perfected by Bach. The greatest example is in Toccata and Fugue. It was elaborated in this historical period.
- During this period composers began to seek beauty through simplicity in music with only one music line. Mozart and Beethoven created their masterpieces.
- Program music evolved during this period. This was music designed to describe special feelings, objects or even people. Tchaikovsky gave us the best example of program music - his Swan Lake is a story, danced on stage.
- It was typical for the music of this period to create atmosphere or a mood, describing nothing definite. Lîsle Joyeuse (The Island of Joy) by Claude Debussy is a typical example of that, due to the lack of characteristic themes.
- This music composition technique is characterized by recurring series of ordered elements which are manipulated to give a piece unity. Arnold Schoenberg made extensive use of this technique.
- The music of this modern period combines some features from classical music with trends from the 20th century. Shostakovich appears to be among the most famous composers of the period.
- This music became popular in the mid 1900s. It was characterized by the use of very little musical material and repetition of patterns.
- During this period, Church was the major patron of music. That is why a great number of composers were associated with it. Just like composer Hildegard von Bingen, who was an abbess of a convent.
- During this period the Italian madrigal and the French chanson were created as new types of music. Instrumental music became widely popular. Claudio Monteverdi was the leading composer of this time.