In which famous oratorio would you hear the solo ?
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Elijah (Mendelssohn)
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Messiah (Handel)
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Bach's Christmas Oratorio
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Dream of Gerontius (Elgar)
Q.2.
In the (choral) Evensong service of the Church of England, the two set 'canticles' are:
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Jubilate and Te Deum
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Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis
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Venite and Cantate Domino
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Quicunque Vult and Deus Misereatur
Q.3.
Which of the following comments and statements on well-known Christmas carols contains at least one outright error?
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The tune almost always used for Hark, the herald-angels sing was originally written by Mendelssohn to help celebrate a major anniversary of the introduction of letterpress printing to Europe
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Silent Night was first written as Stille Nacht, to be sung without keyboard accompaniment at the Tyrolean village church of Oberndorf in Bavaria in 1818, since the organ had been silenced a few days prior to the carol service by hungry mice gnawing away crucial parts in the bellows and reservoirs during an exceptionally bitter winter
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O come, all ye faithful ~ that archetypical four-square seasonal song adapted from the ancient Latin ~ has irregular-metred line lengths and no rhyming lines at all (except in the repeats in the refrain, which hardly count as such)
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The entire three verses of the standard (Kirkpatrick) lyrics to Away in a Manger do not include any letters which would individually score more than 7 points in a game of English Scrabble
Q.4.
Which central British cathedrals have joined together in the annual Three Choirs Festival since almost 300 years ago?
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Worcester, Gloucester and Hereford
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Salisbury, Exeter and Bath
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Peterborough, Lincoln and St Alban's
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Southwell, Beverley and York Minster
Q.5.
What is the connection between Cesar Franck's setting of the text , and the hymn ?
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The tunes are by the same composer
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They are usually sung in the same key
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Panis Angelicus is the Latin for 'bread of heaven' (more or less), as in the hymn's first-verse refrain
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The music for each was composed in the same year
Q.6.
Which of these special settings of the Requiem Mass was written by Karl Jenkins?
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War Requiem
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A German Requiem
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Solemn Vespers
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The 'Armed Man'
Q.7.
Which of the following is NOT true about the style of music known as Plainsong?
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It is written out using mainly square-headed notes on a staff of four lines, rather than round notes on five lines
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It is alternatively known as Georgian Chant
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It is only ever used for Scriptural texts (including Psalms and Canticles), hymns, and liturgical material such as prayers and responses
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It can be sung by one voice or several, but even multiple singers will follow the same tune rather than harmonising
Q.8.
Thinking again of single-line, unaccompanied psalmody (see Q.7 above): the Free Church of Scotland only voted very recently to relax its rulings, whereby previously a style ~ seemingly little more modern than plainchant ~ was the only form of music to be used and tolerated during worship. They can now make use of hymns, songs and accompaniment from other (perhaps more lively) traditions ... as of which year?
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2000
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2008
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2010
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2012
Q.9.
It may meanwhile also surprise some of our visitors that there is an active creative overlap between Christian belief and rock music (which many people may think is too heavy, aggressive and secular a style to be a 'worthy medium', what with mainstream rock's association with free-love and substance addictions). In the earlyish days of Christian Rock, a clever t-shirt slogan appeared which ran: 'My foot is on the Rock, and ... ... (?) '
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... therefore I shall not stumble'
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... my name is on the Roll'
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... I'm heavily into Jesus'
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... I know the One who rolled away the stone'
Q.10.
Another way of familiarising young people and their families with Bible stories, in what some lament as being a 'post-Christian era', is through the writing and performance of ear-catching cantatas and variants on the Nativity Play. Musical settings of Scriptural texts have come a long way since the days of Handel ... and we couldn't possibly comment on whether this is an upward or downward journey, just merely 'onwards'! Which of the following have we at EQ made up, it is not a published title at the time of our writing? (Though maybe someone's at work on just such a piece, even now ...)
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Rock around the Flock
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Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo
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Jonah-man Jazz
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Moses' Rocky Trip
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