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1. Brass is an alloy of which two metals?Copper and Nickel
2. On a trumpet, the lead pipe is another name for the tuning slide
3. Which notes within the staff can you play with a Bb trumpet when no valves are depressed?
4. Which of the following was Miles Davis’ biggest-selling album (4x Platinum)?
5. Malcolm McNab (guest performer at the TCTE’s November 2019 concert) has performed on how many
movie soundtracks?
6. In which of the following movies was a trumpet used as a murder weapon?
- Copper and Iron
- Copper and Zinc (https://www.dictionary.com/browse/brass)
- Nickel and Zinc
- None of the above
2. On a trumpet, the lead pipe is another name for the tuning slide
- A possible murder weapon in “Clue”
- The section of tubing that runs from the mouthpiece to the tuning slide
- The last section of tubing leading to the bell
- A nickname for the lead trumpeter’s instrument in a jazz band
3. Which notes within the staff can you play with a Bb trumpet when no valves are depressed?
- F, Bb, and D
- G, C, and E
- G and C
- E, G, and C#
4. Which of the following was Miles Davis’ biggest-selling album (4x Platinum)?
- Round About Midnight
- Seven Steps to Heaven
- The Man with the Horn
- Kind of Blue (https://www.npr.org/programs/jazzprofiles/archive/miles_kob.html)
- Amsterdam Concert
5. Malcolm McNab (guest performer at the TCTE’s November 2019 concert) has performed on how many
movie soundtracks?
- Over 2,000 (https://www.malcolmmcnab.com/biography)
- 1,520
- 786
- 223
- None of the above
6. In which of the following movies was a trumpet used as a murder weapon?
- The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)
- The Trumpet Blows (1934)
- Murder by Music (1969)
- Dark Passage (1947) (Bogart and Bacall) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Passage_(film))
- Trumpet on the Cliff (2016)
7. Which of the following composers have written a concerto for trumpet?
8. Joseph Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto in E-flat Major was written in 1796. When was it first publicly performed?
9. Triple tonguing can be represented by the syllables
10. Trumpet playing was once part of the ancient Olympic games, with the trumpeters being judged
not for musicality, but for the volume of sound they could produce.
- Johann Hummel
- John Williams
- Georg Philipp Telemann
- Alexander Arutunian
- All of the above (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpet_concerto)
8. Joseph Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto in E-flat Major was written in 1796. When was it first publicly performed?
- 1796
- 1797
- 1800 (https://www.musikalessons.com/blog/2016/03/haydn-trumpet-concerto/)
- 1821
- 1901
9. Triple tonguing can be represented by the syllables
- Ka-Ka-Ka
- Ta-Ta-Ta
- Ta-Ta-Ka (http://www.thetrumpetblog.com/brass-articulation-triple-tonguing/)
- Ta-Ka-Ta-Ka
- Trrrrr-Trrrrrr
10. Trumpet playing was once part of the ancient Olympic games, with the trumpeters being judged
not for musicality, but for the volume of sound they could produce.
- True https://tapsbugler.com/history-of-the-bugle/
- False
