Quiz Win any single or double MT CD

1.  What links the Appalachian traditional singer Dan Tate to Bob Dylan?

2.  Who came up with the following observations?

(i)  Folk-music is as distinct from art-music as the wild flower of nature from the gorgeous blooms of the cultivated garden.

(ii)  Deep at the root, there is no essential difference between folk music and art music; they are varied blossoms from the same stock, grown to serve a similar purpose, if destined for different tables.  Originally they spring from the same area of man's mind; their divergence is a matter of history, of social and cultural stratification.

3.  In which orchestra are some of the instruments deliberately played slightly out-of-tune?

4.  Which American ethnomusicologist had one of his novels plagiarized by another author?  The second author produced a world-wide bestseller, but later ended up in court, where he was unable to defend his actions.

5.   We know that Arthur Miller's play The Crucible was an attack on the Right-Wing American Senator Joseph McCarthy; but which American opera, set in the US South and featuring folk-inspired tunes, can also be seen as a similar attack on McCarthyism?

6.  Which ancient Scottish song mimics the sound of the redshank?

7.  What type of musical instruments has been found in Gravettian and Aurignacian sites in Europe?  These sites date back some 22,000 - 40,000 years.

8.  What book was jointly written by an Ulster singer and a Canadian folklorist?

9.  Why did an American Professor and a red-neck journalist almost come to blows over a place name in Louisiana?

10.  The following four ships were all involved in disasters, but what else connects them - The Alfred D Snow, The Fair Do, The Mexico and The Pomona?

11.  Where can you find a hedge that is built to commemorate a wild boar hunt and the savage beating of a hermit?  Well, that's what some people say!

12.  What connects the date 1065 (+/- 80 years) with an annual custom?

13.  Which English folksong collector spent much of her life living in a caravan?

14.  Where do The Mystery and The Loser sit side by side?

15.  Delia Odcombe of Somerset, William Webber of Taunton & Cordelia Cooper of Porlock are fictional characters in which book?

16.  Which English born Music Hall singer found fame and fortune in Victorian New Zealand?

17.  Which writer and folklorist, who once worked for the Kinsey Institute, spent 15 years living in a French Knights Templar monastery “without piped water”?

18.  What musical instrument is being described below?

“The harmonic aspect of ------ music is more intriguing but should preferably be examined in terms of drone style.  One purpose of the many different tuning patterns in ----- playing is to enable drone effect based on the first and fifth (and occasionally the third) degrees of the scale to be used with melodies of differing character.  However, all four open strings are frequently used as variable drones below and above the melody, producing deviations from the common tonic to dominant drone effect.  The extent to which this occurs depends on both the character of the melody and the tuning pattern adopted.”

19.  Who, in 1778, attacked one of England's main ports to North America?  (Actually, according to local legend, the 'attackers' spent most of the time drinking in local pubs!).  The adventure is remembered in a song that is still sung traditionally in Scotland (and probably elsewhere).

20.  Which visionary monk crippled himself because he “forgot to fit a tail on his hinder parts”?  (OK, this has got nothing to do with folkmusic, but it's a great story and should be better known!)

21.  The Sinologist Arthur Waley discovered a well-known folktale written in a Chinese book of c.850 - 860 CE.  Which folktale is this?

22.  What links F Coles, J Wright, T Vere and W Gilbertson?

23.  What event, which occurred in 1904, is commemorated in a Charlie Poole song?

24.  What connects the composer Carl Weber to a dance tune that is known in the Yorkshire Dales and elsewhere in England?

25.  Which expert on the blues has also written books on vernacular architecture?

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