Investigating the Role of Sonnets in Music and Opera
Description: This quiz will test your knowledge about the role of sonnets in music and opera. | |
Number of Questions: 15 | |
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Which composer is known for setting Shakespeare's sonnets to music?
Which opera by Giuseppe Verdi is based on a sonnet by Francesco Petrarca?
What is the name of the sonnet form that is commonly used in opera?
Which composer wrote a sonnet cycle for voice and piano based on the sonnets of Michelangelo?
Which opera by Richard Strauss is based on a sonnet by Oscar Wilde?
What is the name of the sonnet form that is commonly used in Elizabethan music?
Which composer wrote a sonnet cycle for voice and piano based on the sonnets of Elizabeth Barrett Browning?
Which opera by Benjamin Britten is based on a sonnet by John Donne?
What is the name of the sonnet form that is commonly used in French Baroque music?
Which composer wrote a sonnet cycle for voice and piano based on the sonnets of Dante Alighieri?
Which opera by Gioachino Rossini is based on a sonnet by William Shakespeare?
What is the name of the sonnet form that is commonly used in German Romantic music?
Which composer wrote a sonnet cycle for voice and piano based on the sonnets of Louise Labé?
Which opera by Richard Wagner is based on a sonnet by Ludwig Uhland?
What is the name of the sonnet form that is commonly used in Italian Renaissance music?