Answers To: From Concertos To Calypso

By Terri Morrison and Wayne A. Conaway
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  1. True. Around 1860, this box-shaped button accordion was invented in Germany so that musicians could play hymns in churches without organs. The bandone&oacuten has more than seventy buttons!

  2. A, 3; B, 1; C, 2; D, 4

  3. True

  4. C

  5. B. Jenny Lind, or Johanna Maria Lind-Goldschmidt, was born in Sweden. She was a coloratura soprano.

  6. False. Se&ntildeor Rodrigo was Spanish.

  7. True. And he would no doubt be pleased to see the resurgence in the popularity of Gregorian chants 1,300 years later! The musical Benedictine monks of the Monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos have produced a best-selling recording called Chant, which has sold millions of copies.

  8. A, 4; B, 3; C, 1; D, 5; E, 2

  9. C. The didgeridoo (a k a didjeridu, yidaki, yiraki, magu, kanbi, or ihambilbilg) was originally only played by select Aboriginal men. It is blown in a circular manner, and emanates a variety of haunting tones.

  10. True. There are four movements in a symphony, and "Ode to Joy" was the last one, a choral movement. Beethoven composed and conducted it when he was totally deaf.