Quiz 5 - answers

Well done to everyone who took part; there were some more high scores but this week’s winner was Ann - congratulations!

1) Nokia ringtone: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uSQzUx3QW2Y

2) Petrucci is credited with invented printing music with moveable type.

3) You pluck or strum a balalaika.

4) Elgar, Delius & Holst died in 1934.

5) Freddie Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara.

6) The mazurka dance comes from Poland.

7) Crescendo (=“growing”) means getting louder in music.

8) Haydn wrote 104 numbered symphonies; two more have recently been found.

9) Peter Gabriel preceded Phil Collins as singer for Genesis.

10) Flam, paradiddle & ruff are all drum strokes.