Product Description

The Classic FM Music Quiz Book follows on from the huge success of the Classic FM Friendly Guide to Music and gives you 1000 tantalising and quirky questions (and answers!) to test your knowledge of classical music. The questions are sorted into a wide range of categories and types of round so that you and your friends will all be able to have a go at answering them:

       

Friendly, Enthusiastic and Fiendish Quickfire rounds

They said what?

Order! Order!

True or False?

Cinematic Sounds

The Year in Question

Whose Aria is it anyway?

Mix and Match

Name that Composer

They came from where?

On the Box

The Classic FM Music Quiz Book is the ideal gift for music lovers everywhere.

 

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #39554 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-31
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

About the Author
Darren Henley is the Managing Director of Classic FM and theJazz. His radio programmes have been honoured by the Sony Radio Academy Awards, the British Radio Awards, the New York International Radio Festival and the United Nations. He writes regularly for the Classic FM Magazine. Previously, he was a journalist for ITN and Invicta Radio in Kent.

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Customer Reviews

Have fun while you learn

This is the 5th member of the Classic FM 'Friendly' family (the others are guides to Mozart, Beethoven, Elgar and Music) and until I read this book I thought I had a reasonable knowledge of classical music.

How wrong I was!

There's no free CD like the rest of the family books have, but that's no problem for it keeps the cost down and speeds the questions up making this great entertainment for after dinner, in the car (don't read and drive!) or for just a spare 15 minutes to fill.

The categories are well thought out, each with 20 questions, including Quick Fire (general classical music knowledge), They Said What? (Name the composer who came out with that outrageous quip), Mix and Match (a list of composers, you decide if they're early, baroque, classical, romantic or modern), In Good Voice (a list of singers, you decide if they're soprano mezzo-soprano, tenor, counter-tenor etc)...

For me this book is an ideal after dinner game played like 'Question of Sport', with one quizmaster and two teams, each one containing a (so-called) classical music expert as captain. The music buff will be surprised at how much they don't know, while the occasional listener will be patting themselves on the back with each correct answer they give.

It's guaranteed to entertain and educate.