QUIZ: We bet you can’t name the orchestral piece from the emojis

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Think you can tell your symphonies from your suites? Can you really speak fluent emoji? Take our quiz to find out…

From pianos and trumpets, to puppies and tabby cats, there’s a whole world of tiny emojis out there – and we can’t get enough of them.

That’s why to celebrate this year’s World Emoji Day (17 July), Orchestras for All is here to put your musical knowledge to the test with an orchestral emoji quiz.

Think you can score full marks? Let’s find out…

*For answers, just scroll to the end!

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ANSWERS:

  1. Benjamin Britten’s ‘Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra’

  2. Modest Mussorgsy’s ‘The Great Gate of Kiev’, from Pictures at an Exhibition

  3. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s ‘Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy’

  4. Lucy Hale and National Orchestra for All’s ‘Stories of Silk’

  5. Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons

  6. Léo Delibes’ ‘Flower Duet’

  7. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Overture from The Marriage of Figaro

  8. Florence Price’s Mississipi River Suite

  9. Sergei Prokofiev’s ‘Dance of the Knights’, from Romeo and Juliet

  10. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake

  11. Antonín Dvořák’s ‘New World’ Symphony

  12. Clara Schumann’s ‘Three Romances for Violin and Piano’

  13. Gustav Holst’s The Planets Suite

  14. Edvard Grieg’s ‘In the Hall of the Mountain King’

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