Music Quiz
Instruments, scores and great works: twelve questions for listening with fresh ears.
BEFORE YOU BEGIN
Behind the curtain, sound begins with a gesture: blowing, pressing a key, drawing a bow. Travel through the orchestra in twelve questions, from the small mechanisms inside instruments to works that changed the way we listen.
Tap to make each choice. Your result is free.
An educational quiz based on orchestras and teaching resources. It does not require recognising recordings and contains no song lyrics. The result applies only to these questions.
The world behind the story
Philharmonia Orchestra — oboe ↗Dallas Symphony Orchestra — clarinet ↗Dallas Symphony Orchestra — piano ↗Philharmonia Orchestra — trombone ↗Philharmonia Orchestra — violin ↗Dallas Symphony Orchestra — string instruments ↗Kansas City Symphony — music glossary ↗South Bay Philharmonic — notation and glossary ↗Los Angeles Philharmonic — Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony ↗Los Angeles Philharmonic — The Four Seasons ↗Los Angeles Philharmonic — Brandenburg Concertos ↗Los Angeles Philharmonic — The Magic Flute ↗How this quiz works
12 choices or questions, taking about 5 minutes to read and answer. Reading your result takes additional time, at your own pace.
At the end, you get your score and an explanation for every answer. The time is an estimate: there is no countdown.
Your answers stay in the page’s memory. Read how the results are created.