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TCTE Trumpet Quiz #2 - Answers

How did you do on this quiz? Here are the answers - and some explanations...

1.  Brass is an alloy of which two metals?Copper and Nickel
  •      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
                  (http://thevault.musicarts.com/whats-difference-reverse-non-reverse-leadpipe-trumpet/)
  •      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
​                    (https://sites.google.com/site/ohmusicstudent/band-instruments/trumpet/trumpet-fingering-chart)
  •      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)
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​7.   Which of the following composers have written a concerto for trumpet?
  •      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
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