Danish traditional music - Quiz
Danish traditional music
  • 1. What is Danish traditional music called in Danish?
A) spillemand
B) stadsmusikant
C) spillemandsmusik
D) sønderhoning
  • 2. What was the term for a town musician in Denmark?
A) pols
B) stadsmusikant
C) spillemand
D) fannik
  • 3. During which centuries were professional music performances monopolized by town musicians?
A) 15th and 16th centuries
B) 19th and 20th centuries
C) Middle Ages
D) 17th and 18th centuries
  • 4. What instrument became the most important in traditional Danish music during the 17th and 18th centuries?
A) drum
B) hurdy-gurdy
C) fiddle
D) bagpipe
  • 5. What type of dances were abandoned in favor of pair dances?
A) chain dances
B) minuets
C) square dances
D) contra dances
  • 6. Until around what year was traditional music the common musical culture of Denmark?
A) 1929
B) 1900
C) 1850
D) 1750
  • 7. What caused traditional music to become marginalized to rural areas?
A) increasing urbanization and the spread of classical music
B) the extinction of the fiddle
C) government bans on town musicians
D) the invention of the radio and gramophone
  • 8. Which instruments accompanied medieval chain dances, processions, and ceremonial dances?
A) guitars and accordions
B) pianos and violins
C) pipes, drums and singing
D) fiddles and hurdy-gurdies
  • 9. What was the official title of the appointed city musicians who held a monopoly on music practice?
A) maestro
B) spillemand
C) stadsmusikant
D) minstrel
  • 10. Which two areas never had the stadsmusikant monopoly?
A) Copenhagen and Aarhus
B) Ærø and Western Jutland
C) Bornholm and Amager
D) Fanø and Læsø
  • 11. How did Fanø maintain a local musical tradition despite the stadsmusikant monopoly?
A) they received a royal exemption
B) they hired foreign musicians
C) they ignored the laws and played secretly
D) local musicians leased the right to perform from the city musician of Ribe
  • 12. Why did city musicians frown on instruments like drums, bagpipes, and hurdy-gurdies?
A) they were too expensive
B) they deemed them impure
C) they were associated with foreign enemies
D) they were too loud for indoor venues
  • 13. Around what year were medieval chain dances displaced by pair dances?
A) 1500
B) 1700
C) 1600
D) 1800
  • 14. What is the oldest known pair dance in Denmark?
A) minuet
B) waltz
C) polka
D) pols
  • 15. The pols is an adapted variant of a dance from which country?
A) Germany
B) England
C) Sweden
D) Poland
  • 16. In the 18th century, what were the most common popular dances?
A) fannik and sønderhoning
B) pols and minuet
C) waltz and polka
D) square dance and contra dance
  • 17. How many parts did Polish dances like the pols usually have?
A) one part
B) two parts
C) three parts
D) four parts
  • 18. How was the second half of a Polish dance often handled by fiddlers in old tune books?
A) it was improvised based on the first half
B) it was copied from English tune books
C) it was strictly prescribed by the stadsmusikant
D) it was omitted entirely
  • 19. What style of dances became popular from the end of the 18th century?
A) French Renaissance dances
B) English-style contra and square dances
C) American jazz dances
D) Southern European court dances
  • 20. What became the most popular dance in the cities during the 19th century?
A) waltz
B) polka
C) pols
D) minuet
  • 21. Around what year did the polka and mazurka enter the popular repertoire?
A) 1850
B) 1750
C) 1800
D) 1900
  • 22. What types of modern dances began to replace the earlier dance tradition at the end of the 19th century?
A) medieval chain dances
B) traditional Asian and African dances
C) dances from England, Southern Europe and America
D) courtly dances from Russia
  • 23. Which tune types from the island of Fanø are remnants of early Polish-derived dances?
A) hopsa and galop
B) sønderhoning and fannik
C) schottish and mazurka
D) pols and minuet
  • 24. When was the Association for the Promotion of Folkdancing founded?
A) 1900
B) 1929
C) 1901
D) 1850
  • 25. What period of popular dances did the Association for the Promotion of Folkdancing focus on preserving?
A) 1850-1950
B) 1600-1700
C) 1500-1600
D) 1750-1850
  • 26. How many members did the folkdancing preservation societies have by 1929?
A) exactly 5,000 members
B) around 1,600 members
C) over 50,000 members
D) as many as 16,000 members
  • 27. What effect did the folkdancing associations have on popular dances?
A) a diversifying effect
B) a homogenizing effect
C) an eradicating effect
D) a modernizing effect
  • 28. What traditional attire did members of the folkdancing associations often wear?
A) military uniforms
B) modern urban clothing
C) courtly royal attire
D) folk dress
  • 29. What was the name of the informal organizations that kept local dance traditions alive in response to the homogenizing guilds?
A) Free Dance Society
B) Old Dance
C) Spillemandsmusik Guild
D) Traditional Folk
  • 30. Which rural areas maintained living traditions of dancing from the late 18th century well into the 20th century?
A) Funen, Lolland, Falster and Møn
B) Bornholm, Amager, Copenhagen and Roskilde
C) Fanø, Læsø, Ærø and parts of Western Jutland
D) North Jutland, Djursland, Zealand and Funen
  • 31. Who created a large collection of tunes around 1760?
A) Evald Tang Kristensen
B) Svend Grundtvig
C) A. P. Berggreen
D) Rasmus Storm
  • 32. When did the collection of Danish folkmelodies begin?
A) Middle ages
B) Early 19th century
C) Late 18th century
D) Early 20th century
  • 33. Who was born in 1824 and died in 1883?
A) Rasmus Storm
B) Evald Tang Kristensen
C) A. P. Berggreen
D) Svend Grundtvig
  • 34. What are the life dates of A. P. Berggreen as mentioned in the text?
A) 1843-1929
B) 1824-83
C) 1801-80
D) 1760-1830
  • 35. Who published significant collections of tunes and songs alongside Svend Grundtvig and A. P. Berggreen?
A) A modern ethnomusicologist
B) An anonymous monk
C) Rasmus Storm
D) Evald Tang Kristensen
  • 36. When was Evald Tang Kristensen born?
A) 1760
B) 1801
C) 1824
D) 1843
  • 37. When did Evald Tang Kristensen die?
A) 1883
B) 1929
C) 1950
D) 1800
  • 38. When did the collection of folk tradition begin in earnest in Denmark?
A) Early 19th century
B) Early 20th century
C) Early 18th century
D) Late 20th century
  • 39. What academic field was established in Denmark in the early 20th century?
A) Anthropology
B) Ethnology
C) Musicology
D) Archaeology
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