Organ History
Review Quiz 16
Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Italy

This quiz covers organs in Italy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. If you haven't read all of the relevant pages, you may continue with the quiz, or you may elect to do further reading before you take it.

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1. Seventeenth-century Italian organs typically had how many manuals?

  1. One
  2. Two
  3. Three
  4. Four
  5. I have no idea.

2. Eighteenth-century Italian organs typically had how many manuals?

  1. One
  2. Two
  3. Three
  4. Four
  5. I have no idea.

3. What is the Italian term that describes the principal ensemble on Italian organs?

4. What were Italian reeds usually like in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?

  1. Full length, conical reeds.
  2. Short length, cylindrical reeds.
  3. Both types of reeds.
  4. Reeds were usually not present.
  5. I have no idea.

5. In what region of Italy were reeds more likely to be found in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?

  1. Northern Italy
  2. Central Italy
  3. Southern Italy
  4. I have no idea.

6. What is the name of the "principal céleste" found on Italian organs from the sixteenth century on?

  1. Voce humana
  2. Fiffaro
  3. Piffaro
  4. All of the above
  5. None of the above
  6. I have no idea.

7. Describe the shape of the typical seventeenth-century Italian case.

  1. Rectangular, with a narrow base.
  2. Rectangular, with a base as wide as the top portion.
  3. A tall central tower, with smaller towers at the ends, the towers separated by two-story flats.
  4. I have no idea.

8. Chorus mixtures were commonly found on Italian organs of the first half of the seventeenth century.

  1. True.
  2. False.
  3. I have no idea.