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1. Let's start with the Renaissance: during the reign of which English king did the composers Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Weelkes and Richard Deering - among others - write musical arrangements of London street cries for voices and stringed instruments?
2. "Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St Clement's". Which one of the following lines from the old children's song is not quite right?
3. Fast-forwarding to the early 1900s, what title did the Australian-born composer Percy Grainger give to his rumbustious, London-inspired work for massed pianos and orchestra?
4. Which one of the following English-born composers wrote "A London Symphony"?
5. Which London suburb did the Cheltenham-born composer Gustav Holst honour with an orchestral piece incorporating a Prelude and a Scherzo?
6. Which one of these English composers wrote "A London Overture"?
7. What was the name of the 1930s musical in which the famous walking dance "The Lambeth Walk" first saw the light of day?
8. Twentieth-century nightingales could often think of better places than Central London in which to burst into song, I suppose. But in which London square, according to a song reportedly written in a French village bar and first published in England in 1940, did a nightingale start singing one memorable night?
9. Not enough songs have been written about London Tube stations. Which band had a Top Twenty hit in 1967 with a number called "Finchley Central"?
10. Finally, another concession to pop: in which song of the 1960s do Terry and Julie cross over the River Thames to "where they feel safe and sound"?
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