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Exploring Music in Television and History

This quiz explores the intersection of music in television and historical contexts, testing knowledge on notable figures and traditions in music.

#Music #Television #Composers #History #Musical Instruments

1 Who played Babe the TV series Music?

2 Who played Boy the TV series Music?

3 Prominent composers from this era are ________, Thomas Morley and Orlande de Lassus.

4 [6] The earliest and largest collection of prehistoric musical instruments was found in ________ and dates back to between 7000 and 6600 BC.

5 What role did Tim Kubart play in the TV series Music?

6 What role did Angelica Torn play in the TV series Music?

7 Who played Veronica the TV series Music?

8 What role did Lara Harris play in the TV series Music?

9 Professional musicians are employed by a range of institutions and organisations, including armed forces, churches and synagogues, symphony orchestras, ________ or film production companies, and music schools.

10 Alongside these traditions of sacred and ________ there existed a vibrant tradition of secular song.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the composer Zbigniew Preisner wrote the title music for the monumental BBC documentary People's Century, which spans 26 parts.
  • distinguished recipients of the Grawemeyer Award for music composition have included Witold LutosÅ‚awski, György Ligeti, Pierre Boulez and John Adams.
  • the music of the Pointer Sisters combined jazz, scat and be-bop.
  • the opera King Arthur is unusual because the principal characters do not sing, rather they recite dialogue accompanied by music.
  • the Delphic Hymns, written in stone between 138 and 128 BC in Ancient Greece, are the earliest surviving unambiguous notated music in the western world.
  • a suikinkutsu is a type of Japanese garden ornament and a music device.
  • parlour music is a term used to describe the unified style common to popular and semi-popular European lite-classical and popular, and folk-like music from 1790 until 1900.
  • Ottaviano Petrucci's Harmonice Musices Odhecaton was the first music to be printed using movable type.
  • visually impaired musicians can begin learning Music Braille once they are competent in grade-two level literary Braille.
  • soul singer Bettye Lavette's album Souvenirs was recorded in 1972, but was shelved by Atlantic Records until a French music collector discovered it and released it in 2000, sparking a continuing surge of interest in the singer.
  • Oriental metal is a kind of death metal music that originated in Israel which has traditional Jewish and "Oriental" influences.
  • Sigismondo d'India, a 17th century Italian composer, produced music in nearly all the forms of the day, including monody, madrigal and motet.
  • "James Brown is Dead" is an electronic dance music reference to James Brown and the widespread sampling of his music.
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