Q.1.
What are the four instruments in a classical String Quartet?
Q.2.
Which is the odd term out here?
Q.3.
A typical violin has four strings; how many are there on a Hardanger fiddle?
Q.4.
, the opening movement of Holst's Suite, begins with two surprises: the first is its time-signature of 5/4, so that the pulse and style are clearly suggestive of a march, yet the march itself is (intentionally) 'un-marchable' to those of us without 5 feet. The second, more subtle but distinctive feature is that all the string players are instructed to perform from the outset. What does this instruction mean?
Q.5.
Apart from the piano and certain other keyboard instruments, which stringed instrument also has pedals (usually seven of them)?
Q.6.
With which early-modern stringed instrument was John Dowland most closely associated, often writing and performing songs accompanied on it?
Q.7.
The 'golden age' for the manufacturing of classical stringed instruments centres around the names of Stradivarius (of course ... ) and Guarneri: when and where were these makers active?
Q.8.
Before the days of modern synthetics and steel, all the parts of an instrument and its bow would necessarily be made of organic materials ('animal, vegetable or mineral'). Parts from which animals would typically have been involved in performances of the Baroque and Classical eras (Bach, Mozart & co.)?
Q.9.
This plucked string instrument has a wide cultural history but seems, in the 20th century at least, to have found its spiritual home in Austria. It features in Strauss' , on the soundtrack to the film , and there is a fairly well-known carol in whose choral arrangement the harmony singers are required to imitate the 'zing' of its strings. Alphabetically also, it's probably about the last instrument you would think of ~ further down the list, even, than the xylophone. What instrument is this?
Q.10.
Some while ago there was a violin teaching book called . Why was this title so neat?