BBC Music Magazine

You will find yourself dancing through this month’s quiz

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1. Based on the Old Testament book, Job: A Masque for Dancing is a 1931 stage work by which British composer?

2. Which notorious 1913 ballet culminates with The Chosen One dancing herself to death in front of an audience of elders?

3. Premiered in December 1813 by an orchestra that included the likes of Salieri and Hummel in its ranks, which symphony was later described as ‘the apotheosis of the dance’ by Wagner?

4. Can you name the operas in which you will see and hear the following dances: a) Dance of the Hours (1876); b) Dance of the Moorish Slaves (1871); c) Bacchanale (1877); d) Dance of the Seven Veils (1905)?

6. From which country do the following dance forms originate: a) Tarantella; b) Trepak/tropak; c) Mazurka; d) Joropo?

7. The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy in Tchaikovsk­y’s ballet The Nutcracker features a solo role for which instrument? And what type of dance is it?

8. In June 1961, which world-famous ballet dancer slipped his KGB minders while on tour in France and applied for asylum in the country?

9. Its title derived from a Shakespear­ean phrase, which frisky 1954 musical features a piano that gives everyone who hears it an urge to dance? 10. Which 1985 ‘foxtrot for orchestra’ depicts an excited Mao-tse Tung descending from his portrait on the wall to dance with his mistress Chiang Ch’ing?

For details of Radio 3’s new dance series, see p98 See p99 for answers

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