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Jun-16-2013 06:40

This is a thread about music. All kinds of music: classical, jazz, blues, rock, folk, film music... any kind you can think of. The questions can be about anything related to music: about composers, musicians (performers), styles/periods, musical forms, musical instruments, or about particular pieces or songs.

I'll start with a person.

Jun-22-2013 05:21

OK A Musical Quiz of sorts...

What's in a name?

Which bands / groups changed their names from the following? [rock/pop]

1. The Bangs?

2. Tom and Jerry?

3. The Blue Velvets, then The Visions, then The Golliwogs

4. The Rattlesnakes

These artists changed their names from… [rock /pop]

5. Farrokh Bulsara

6. Enrique Morales

7.Patricia Andrzejewski

8. David Robert Jones

True or false? [Classical]

9. Tchaikovsky believed that his head would fall off, so when conducting an orchestra he would hold his chin with his left hand.

10 Marie Antoinette, was an excellent flautist. (that's someone who plays the flute :p)

11. Wagner married Franz Lizsts's daughter.

12. As a child Mozart was mortally afraid of the trombone.

Have fun :)

Jun-22-2013 08:40

Yay, we've got a proper quizz! Not that I have the slightest clue about any of the rock/pop questions, I'll leave them to the young folk, but I'll try answering the classical ones.


9. Never heard of it, so it must be False :)

10. False

She played several keyboard instruments popular at the time, and she was taught the harp by the famous Gluck (she remained his patron for the rest of his life).

11. True

Her name was Cosima and she was one of Liszt's children by countess Marie d'Agoult.

12. False (probably)

He used it in his music which was unusual for his times (trombone was not a standard instrument in an 18th century orchestra) , and there is a beautiful trombone solo in his Requiem.

Jun-22-2013 09:55

I have no idea about any of them Lady D, though your knowlege is impressive as ever :)

Jun-22-2013 10:26

Young folk, young folk, coming through...

Hmm. Hmm... *face going blank*

Young folk, young folk, on my way out :)

Jun-22-2013 20:58

Those seem like great questions and all, SS, but, the only one I've even remotely heard of is Tom and Jerry...and unless you want different TV show names, I'm useless here. Most other places too...

And what about Enrique Iglesias? All the kids in class are always going *on and on and on* about him...

Jun-24-2013 02:53

Nice list, SS!

I'm with Daenerys - I have some ideas about the classical stuff but no idea about any of the others.

I do like the theory that Mozart as a child was mortally afraid of trombones, but that as a result his father put him through trombone acceptance therapy and he became so enamoured of them that he started using them in his orchestral arrangements even though they weren't a standard instrument of the time.

Jun-25-2013 02:56

Ok So without further faffing about, here are the answers... makes me pine for the pub quiz days...

What's in a name?

Which bands changed their names from the following? [rock/pop]

1. The Bangs?

The Bangles (*coughs* they had it right the first time...)

2. Tom and Jerry? (prophetic really)

Simon and Garfunkel

3. The Blue Velvets, then The Visions, then The Golliwogs

Creedence Clearwater Revival (I knew the Golliwogs, didn't know the other two)

4. The Rattlesnakes

The Beegees


These artists changed their names from… [rock /pop]

5. Farrokh Bulsara

Freddie Mercury

6. Enrique Morales

Ricky Martin

7.Patricia Andrzejewski

Pat Benitar

8. David Robert Jones

David Bowie


True or false? [Classical]

9 . Tchaikovsky believed that his head would fall off, so when conducting an orchestra he would hold his chin with his left hand.

TRUE... or FALSE. Tchaikovsky is often beaten up as being a bit nuts, but more than likely he probably was just a generic sufferer of anxiety and all it's manifestations. The placing of his hand under his chin when on the rostrum (which he did do) was probably just a nervous habit. But I personally like the idea he really did think his head was going to roll away down the aisle.

10. Marie Antoinette, was an excellent flautist. (that's someone who plays the flute :p)

FALSE. She wasn't bad Harpist though.

11. Wagner married Franz Lizsts's daughter.

TRUE

12. FALSE

Actually as a child Mozart was mortally afraid of the trumpet.

There's also some myth that Mozart was the first composer to use the Trombone in a Symphony, but that's not true either apparently.

Jun-25-2013 13:17

Kind of feel I should have known the David Bowie one :)

The others I had no idea but was really interesting... especially the Polish sounding name to a country western one!

Yeh, I miss pub quiz too, if you write it, I will answer :)

Jun-29-2013 01:48

A new pub quizz, that's GREAT!

How about this: it is a musical form, and it's fictional :D.

Jun-29-2013 02:11

Now that's intriguing...

Just to be clear, when you say 'a musical form' do you mean something like a sonata, or a concerto, or an opera? (Only it can't be any of those as they're not fictional).

Is it from a book, a film, a poem, a TV series?