Danish traditional music - Quiz
Danish traditional music
  • 1. What is Danish traditional music called in Danish?
A) spillemandsmusik
B) stadsmusikant
C) sønderhoning
D) spillemand
  • 2. What was the term for a town musician in Denmark?
A) stadsmusikant
B) spillemand
C) pols
D) fannik
  • 3. During which centuries were professional music performances monopolized by town musicians?
A) 17th and 18th centuries
B) 15th and 16th centuries
C) Middle Ages
D) 19th and 20th centuries
  • 4. What instrument became the most important in traditional Danish music during the 17th and 18th centuries?
A) fiddle
B) drum
C) bagpipe
D) hurdy-gurdy
  • 5. What type of dances were abandoned in favor of pair dances?
A) contra dances
B) square dances
C) minuets
D) chain dances
  • 6. Until around what year was traditional music the common musical culture of Denmark?
A) 1900
B) 1929
C) 1750
D) 1850
  • 7. What caused traditional music to become marginalized to rural areas?
A) the invention of the radio and gramophone
B) increasing urbanization and the spread of classical music
C) the extinction of the fiddle
D) government bans on town musicians
  • 8. Which instruments accompanied medieval chain dances, processions, and ceremonial dances?
A) fiddles and hurdy-gurdies
B) guitars and accordions
C) pipes, drums and singing
D) pianos and violins
  • 9. What was the official title of the appointed city musicians who held a monopoly on music practice?
A) stadsmusikant
B) minstrel
C) spillemand
D) maestro
  • 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 hired foreign musicians
B) they ignored the laws and played secretly
C) local musicians leased the right to perform from the city musician of Ribe
D) they received a royal exemption
  • 12. Why did city musicians frown on instruments like drums, bagpipes, and hurdy-gurdies?
A) they deemed them impure
B) they were too expensive
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) 1700
B) 1500
C) 1600
D) 1800
  • 14. What is the oldest known pair dance in Denmark?
A) polka
B) minuet
C) pols
D) waltz
  • 15. The pols is an adapted variant of a dance from which country?
A) Sweden
B) Poland
C) England
D) Germany
  • 16. In the 18th century, what were the most common popular dances?
A) square dance and contra dance
B) fannik and sønderhoning
C) pols and minuet
D) waltz and polka
  • 17. How many parts did Polish dances like the pols usually have?
A) four parts
B) two parts
C) one part
D) three parts
  • 18. How was the second half of a Polish dance often handled by fiddlers in old tune books?
A) it was omitted entirely
B) it was copied from English tune books
C) it was strictly prescribed by the stadsmusikant
D) it was improvised based on the first half
  • 19. What style of dances became popular from the end of the 18th century?
A) English-style contra and square dances
B) Southern European court dances
C) French Renaissance dances
D) American jazz dances
  • 20. What became the most popular dance in the cities during the 19th century?
A) polka
B) minuet
C) waltz
D) pols
  • 21. Around what year did the polka and mazurka enter the popular repertoire?
A) 1900
B) 1750
C) 1850
D) 1800
  • 22. What types of modern dances began to replace the earlier dance tradition at the end of the 19th century?
A) courtly dances from Russia
B) traditional Asian and African dances
C) medieval chain dances
D) dances from England, Southern Europe and America
  • 23. Which tune types from the island of Fanø are remnants of early Polish-derived dances?
A) pols and minuet
B) schottish and mazurka
C) sønderhoning and fannik
D) hopsa and galop
  • 24. When was the Association for the Promotion of Folkdancing founded?
A) 1929
B) 1901
C) 1900
D) 1850
  • 25. What period of popular dances did the Association for the Promotion of Folkdancing focus on preserving?
A) 1750-1850
B) 1850-1950
C) 1600-1700
D) 1500-1600
  • 26. How many members did the folkdancing preservation societies have by 1929?
A) around 1,600 members
B) exactly 5,000 members
C) as many as 16,000 members
D) over 50,000 members
  • 27. What effect did the folkdancing associations have on popular dances?
A) an eradicating effect
B) a modernizing effect
C) a homogenizing effect
D) a diversifying effect
  • 28. What traditional attire did members of the folkdancing associations often wear?
A) folk dress
B) courtly royal attire
C) modern urban clothing
D) military uniforms
  • 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) Traditional Folk
C) Old Dance
D) Spillemandsmusik Guild
  • 30. Which rural areas maintained living traditions of dancing from the late 18th century well into the 20th century?
A) Bornholm, Amager, Copenhagen and Roskilde
B) Funen, Lolland, Falster and Møn
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) A. P. Berggreen
B) Svend Grundtvig
C) Evald Tang Kristensen
D) Rasmus Storm
  • 32. When did the collection of Danish folkmelodies begin?
A) Late 18th century
B) Middle ages
C) Early 19th century
D) Early 20th century
  • 33. Who was born in 1824 and died in 1883?
A) Evald Tang Kristensen
B) Svend Grundtvig
C) A. P. Berggreen
D) Rasmus Storm
  • 34. What are the life dates of A. P. Berggreen as mentioned in the text?
A) 1824-83
B) 1801-80
C) 1843-1929
D) 1760-1830
  • 35. Who published significant collections of tunes and songs alongside Svend Grundtvig and A. P. Berggreen?
A) Rasmus Storm
B) Evald Tang Kristensen
C) An anonymous monk
D) A modern ethnomusicologist
  • 36. When was Evald Tang Kristensen born?
A) 1843
B) 1824
C) 1801
D) 1760
  • 37. When did Evald Tang Kristensen die?
A) 1929
B) 1883
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) Late 20th century
D) Early 18th century
  • 39. What academic field was established in Denmark in the early 20th century?
A) Musicology
B) Archaeology
C) Anthropology
D) Ethnology
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