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Black History Quiz Match Questions with Names & Find Answers Below
Table of Contents   1 Part A Questions   2 Part B Questions   3 Part C Questions   4 Part A Answers   5 Part B Answers   6 Part C Answers   7 Conclusion	Africa: Piano Music of William Grant Still Denver Oldham, piano Koch 3 7084 2H1 (1991)

Quiz at Three Levels of Difficulty
Name the composer or musician for each question
Peek at answers on right or see entire list of answers below

1 Part A Questions

1	Composer of the Afro-American Symphony	Answer
2	Black trumpeter for King Henry VIII	Answer
3	The King of Ragtime	Answer
4	Blind slave was a musical genius	Answer
5	Best fencer in France	Answer
6	Britain's first Black voter	Answer
7	Classical guitarist who helped the Underground Railroad	Answer
8	Composer and pianist born in Canada	Answer
9	Haitian pianist nicknamed "A Black Chopin"	Answer
10	Led first African American musicians to visit Europe	Answer
11	Her work Troubled Water is based on a spiritual	Answer
12	Composer of Negro Folk Symphony	Answer
13	His Cotton Club Orchestra was on national radio, but only White people could attend its shows	Answer
14	Composer of Brazil's first opera	Answer
15	Music Director for the President of Haiti	Answer
16	Believed to be the first Black composer to make a recording	Answer
17	Conductor who received National Medal of Arts in 2005	Answer

                                  

2 Part B Questions

1	First African American Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Music	Answer
2	Fled racism in New Orleans and conducted in France for 27 years	Answer
3	South African composer of  My Country	Answer
4	Conducts diverse orchestra, the Chicago Sinfonietta	Answer
5	Jamaican composer of contemporary concert music	Answer
6	First African American woman whose symphony was performed by a major orchestra	Answer
7	Nigerian composer of orchestral music	Answer
8	A leading classical guitarist of our time	Answer
9	Published Jubilee Songs of the United States of America	Answer
10	Composer of Epitaph for a Man who Dreamed	Answer
11	Co-author of the The Charleston, which became a hugely popular dance	Answer
12	South African who composed the Zulu epic Ushaka	Answer
13	A composer who taught in Chicago over 40 years	Answer
14	Pianist who first saw his instrument at age 16	Answer
15	Father of Modern Nigerian Art Music	Answer
16	His opera Guinevere has been sung in the U.S. and Europe	Answer
17	Piano soloist who is also a member of a piano duo	Answer
18	His score for the film In the Company of Fear won a Leo Award in Canada	Answer

 

3 Part C Questions

1	Leading composer in Afrocubanismo style	Answer
2	Violinist accompanied on piano by Ludwig van Beethoven	Answer
3	Early Pan-Africanist composer	Answer
4	Wrote award-winning opera Scourge of Hyacinths	Answer
5	His opera Blake was excerpted by the New York City Opera Company	Answer
6	A commission from the Symphony of the New World led to his work  Concentrics	Answer
7	Haitian who wrote Legende Creole	Answer
8	Nigerian who formulated the theory of African Pianism	Answer
9	The Moscow State Radio Orchestra performed his Of New Horizons in 1958	Answer
10	First music teacher of Ernesto Nazareth, a leading Brazilian composer	Answer
11	Co-founder of the New World Symphony	Answer
12	Guadeloupean composer of La cité de voile (The City of Sail)	Answer
13	Winner of the 1952 BMI competition for student composers	Answer
14	Haitian composer of Tangente au Yanvalou	Answer
15	Violin soloist with the New York Philharmonic in 1875-1876	Answer
16	The American Viola Society calls her “...one of the foremost instrumentalists of her generation.”	Answer
17	His Sphinx Organization trains young Black and Latino musicians	Answer

 
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4 Part A Answers
 1 Still, William Grant
 2 Blanke, John
 3 Joplin, Scott
 4 Wiggins, Thomas "Blind Tom"
 5 Saint-Georges, Le Chevalier de
 6 Sancho, Ignatius
 7 Holland, Justin
 8 Dett, R. Nathaniel
 9 Lamothe, Ludovic
10 Johnson, Francis B.
11 Bonds, Margaret A.
12 Dawson, William Levi
13 Ellington, Edward K. "Duke"
14 Garcia, José Mauricio Nunes
15 Jeanty, Occide
16 Lambert, Lucien-Leon, Jr.
17 DePreist, James

5 Part B Answers
 1 George Theophilus Walker
 2 Edmond Dede
 3 Michael Mosoeu Moerane
 4 Paul Freeman
 5 Eleanor Alberga
 6 Florence B. Price
 7 Samuel Ekpe Akpabot
 8 Leo Brouwer
 9 Henry T. Burleigh
10 Adolphus C. Hailstork
11 James P. Johnson
12 J.S. Mzilikazi Khumalo
13 Irene Britton Smith
14 Girma Yifrashewa
15 Fela Sowande
16 Julius P. Williams
17 William H. Chapman Nyaho
18 Celso Machado

6 Part C Answers
 1 Amadeo Roldan
 2 George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower
 3 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
 4 Tania J. Leon
 5 H. Leslie Adams
 6 Arthur Cunningham
 7 Justin Elie
 8 Akin Euba
 9 Ulysses S. Kay
10 Charles Lucien Lambert, Sr.
11 Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
12 Alain P. Pradel
13 Hale Smith
14 Julio Racine
15 José Silvestre White
16 Nokuthula Ngwenyama
17 Aaron P. Dworkin

7 Quiz Conclusion
What matters is not how many questions you answered correctly, but how aware you became of the rich African Heritage in Classical Music.  The questions and answers are from our Web pages on Composers and Musicians of African Descent; if you have not visited them, we hope you will do so.  You will find background information on the composers, the musicians, their music and recordings.  Remember to visit the Audio page for dozens of sound samples.

 

 

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