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A ___________ sign is used in musical notation to cancel a previous sharp or flat sign.

Natural

Rests

Increase its duration by half

How many beats fall in a measure

Answer

Correct Answer: Natural

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The first commercially successful tin pan alley song was written in ___.

1892

1893

1887

1792

Answer

Correct Answer: 1892

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What does the word "quintet" mean?

A group of six people

A group of four people

A group of seven people

Five performers or a piece of music for five performers

Answer

Correct Answer: Five performers or a piece of music for five performers

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What is a quartet?

Six performers or a piece of music for six performers

Three performers or a piece of music for three performers

Four performers or a piece of music for four performers

Five performers or a piece of music for five performers

Answer

Correct Answer: Four performers or a piece of music for four performers

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What does "piano" mean in Italian?

"strings"

"hammers"

"soft"

"keyboard"

Answer

Correct Answer: "soft"

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What is the Italian dynamic marking for "soft"?

Forte

Piano

Mezzo-piano

Crescendo

Answer

Correct Answer: Piano

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What does the Italian musical term "pianissimo" mean?

"very soft"

"soft"

"loud"

"very loud"

Answer

Correct Answer: "very soft"

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What is the purpose of phrase marks in music?

To help identifyrepeated sections of a phrase.

To help interpret the natural flow of the music.

To help identify the beginning and end of a phrase.

To help keep track of the number of measures in a phrase.

Answer

Correct Answer: To help interpret the natural flow of the music.

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What does the phrase "a musical thought or sentence" mean?

A single note

A complete musical thought or sentence

A groups of notes played in succession

A musical thought or sentence

Answer

Correct Answer: A musical thought or sentence

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Which of the following is NOT a member of the percussion family?

Timpani

Bass drum

Piano

Gong

Answer

Correct Answer: Piano

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What is the percussion family?

Brass instruments

Instruments that make sound when struck, shaken, or scraped.

String instruments

Woodwind instruments

Answer

Correct Answer: Instruments that make sound when struck, shaken, or scraped.

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What is a pentatonic scale?

A six-tone scale

A four-tone scale

An eight-tone scale

A five-tone scale

Answer

Correct Answer: A five-tone scale

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What is an orchestra?

A type of theatre in which the audience watches from above

A performance group of diverse instruments

A sign language used by different cultures around the world

A style of music characterized by a heavy beat

Answer

Correct Answer: A performance group of diverse instruments

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What is an oratorio?

An opera with stage action and costumes

A non-religious opera without stage action or costumes

A religious opera with stage action and costumes

A religious opera without stage action or costumes

Answer

Correct Answer: A religious opera without stage action or costumes

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What is opera?

A form of Chinese martial arts

Musical stage drama that generally is sung throughout.

A genre of music

A type of cheese from Italy

Answer

Correct Answer: Musical stage drama that generally is sung throughout.

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What is the definition of opera?

A style of music

A type of bread

A form of theatre

Musical stage drama that generally is sung throughout

Answer

Correct Answer: Musical stage drama that generally is sung throughout

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What does octet mean?

Four performers or a piece for four performers

Six performers or a piece for six performers

Eight performers or a piece for eight performers

Twelve performers or a piece for twelve performers

Answer

Correct Answer: Eight performers or a piece for eight performers

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What does the term "octave" refer to?

The distance between two similar sounding musical notes

The last note of a scale

The first note of a scale

The distance between notes of the same letter name, eight notes higher or lower

Answer

Correct Answer: The distance between notes of the same letter name, eight notes higher or lower

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How many notes are there between notes of the same letter name?

Eight

Twelve

Six

Four

Answer

Correct Answer: Eight

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How many counts does a quarter note receive?

Answer

Correct Answer: 1

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When 4 is the bottom number of the meter signature, how many counts does a whole note receive?

Answer

Correct Answer: 4

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What is notation?

The study of musical instruments

The representation of musical tones by written characters

The translation of a song from one language to another

A type of musical composition

Answer

Correct Answer: The representation of musical tones by written characters

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What is the definition of notation?

The representation of musical tones by written characters.

The analysis of music

The history of music

The study of music

Answer

Correct Answer: The representation of musical tones by written characters.

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What does the word "nocturne" mean?

"painting of the night"

"serenade"

"lullaby"

"night piece"

Answer

Correct Answer: "night piece"

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What is a natural note?

A musical note with no modifier

A musical note that is sharpened

A musical note that is flattened

A musical note that is neither sharpened nor flattened

Answer

Correct Answer: A musical note that is neither sharpened nor flattened

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What does a natural note mean in music?

A natural note is one that is neither sharpened nor flattened.

A natural note is a note that is flattened.

A natural note is a note that is both sharpened and flattened.

A natural note is a note that is sharpened.

Answer

Correct Answer: A natural note is one that is neither sharpened nor flattened.

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What is a melodic motif?

A short musical phrase used in development or imitation

A crescendo

A sustained musical note

A long musical phrase used in development or imitation

Answer

Correct Answer: A short musical phrase used in development or imitation

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What is a measure?

A rythmic grouping or metrical unit that contains a fixed number of beats.

A stress or accent in a metrical foot of poetry

A small unit of length

The shortest duration of sound that a human ear can detect

Answer

Correct Answer: A rythmic grouping or metrical unit that contains a fixed number of beats.

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What is a march?

A verb meaning to walk

A type of pastry

A type of military music for marching to.

An area of land

Answer

Correct Answer: A type of military music for marching to.

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How many half-steps are in a major scale?

Answer

Correct Answer: 2

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What is the formula for a major scale?

An ascending pattern of one whole step, one half-step, two whole steps, one half-step.

An ascending pattern of two whole steps, one half-step, four whole steps, one half-step.

An ascending pattern of two whole steps, one half-step, three whole steps, one half-step.

An ascending pattern of one whole step, two half-steps, three whole steps, one half-step.

Answer

Correct Answer: An ascending pattern of two whole steps, one half-step, three whole steps, one half-step.

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What is a major scale?

A scale with intervals of 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1

A scale with intervals of 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 1, 2

A scale with intervals of 3, 3, 2, 3, 3

A scale with intervals of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Answer

Correct Answer: A scale with intervals of 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1

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What is a "major" in music?

Major tonality based on a chromatic scale

Tonality based on a major scale

Minor tonality based on a major scale

Major tonality based on a minor scale

Answer

Correct Answer: Tonality based on a major scale

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What is a libretto?

The conductor of a piece of music

The words of a piece of music

The score of a piece of music

The soloist of a piece of music

Answer

Correct Answer: The words of a piece of music

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What does the Italian tempo marking "lento" mean?

Lent

Fast

Slow

Lentil

Answer

Correct Answer: Slow

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What does a ledger line represent?

A note that falls outside of the staff

A line used to connect two notes of the same pitch

A decorative element added to the staff

A short line added above or below the normal staff lines to indicate notes of extra-high or -low pitch.

Answer

Correct Answer: A short line added above or below the normal staff lines to indicate notes of extra-high or -low pitch.

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What is a ledger line?

A short line added above or below the grand staff to indicate notes of extra-high or -low pitch.

A short line added above or below the grand staff to indicate notes of high or -low pitch.

A short line added above or below normal staff lines to indicate notes of extra-high or -low pitch.

A short line added above or below normal staff lines to indicate notes of high or -low pitch.

Answer

Correct Answer: A short line added above or below normal staff lines to indicate notes of extra-high or -low pitch.

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What does the Italian term "legato" describe?

A smooth and connected manner of playing with a flowing effect

A smooth and disconnected manner of playing

A choppy and disconnected manner of playing

A staccato and disconnected manner of playing

Answer

Correct Answer: A smooth and connected manner of playing with a flowing effect

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What is the Italian term for describing a manner of playing that is smooth and connected and has a flowing effect?

Staccato

Portamento

Legato

Pizzicato

Answer

Correct Answer: Legato

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What is the Italian tempo marking for slow, broad, and stately?

Allegretto

Andante

Largo

Presto

Answer

Correct Answer: Largo

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What is the key?

The main melody of a composition

The starting point of a composition

A minor piece of a composition

The basic scale and tonality of a composition.

Answer

Correct Answer: The basic scale and tonality of a composition.

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What is jazz characterized by?

Not having a lot of improvisation

Strong, syncopated rhythms, particular chords and harmonic structures, and a large amount of improvisation.

Not having particular chords or harmonic structures

A lack of rhythm

Answer

Correct Answer: Strong, syncopated rhythms, particular chords and harmonic structures, and a large amount of improvisation.

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What is the main characteristic of Jazz music?

Weak, non-syncopated rhythms

Strong, syncopated rhythms

Weak, syncopated rhythms

Strong, non-syncopated rhythms

Answer

Correct Answer: Strong, syncopated rhythms

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What is the main purpose of an introduction?

To conclude the piece

To give an overview of the main points

To provide background information

To prepare for the main part of the piece

Answer

Correct Answer: To prepare for the main part of the piece

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What is the interval between any two pitches and/or notes called?

Score

Interval

Octave

Melody

Answer

Correct Answer: Interval

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What does the word "instrumental" mean?

Having a lot of energy

Not important

Using instruments only, with no words.

Relating to an instrument

Answer

Correct Answer: Using instruments only, with no words.

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What does instrumental mean?

A cappella

With words

Solo

Using instruments only, with no words

Answer

Correct Answer: Using instruments only, with no words

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How many instrument families are there in an orchestra?

Answer

Correct Answer: 4

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What does it mean to improvise?

To write music in advance.

To follow a score exactly.

To create music spontaneously.

To make up choreography as you go.

Answer

Correct Answer: To create music spontaneously.

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What is the definition for home tone?

A major chord

A minor chord

The first or key tone of any scale

The last or unimportant tone of any scale

Answer

Correct Answer: The first or key tone of any scale

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What is harmony?

An element of music concerned with combining notes and parts simultaneously

An element of music concerned with combining notes and parts sequentially

The study of musical pitch

A set of chords played in succession

Answer

Correct Answer: An element of music concerned with combining notes and parts simultaneously

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What is the definition of harmony?

A type of musical instrument

A software program used by composers and musicians to create sheet music.

The study of the structure and evolution of the universe

An element of music concerned with combining notes and parts simultaneously.

Answer

Correct Answer: An element of music concerned with combining notes and parts simultaneously.

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What is the hammer dulcimer?

A type of violin

Trapezoidal box instrument with more than 100 strings, played by striking strings with small mallets.

A type of guitar

A type of piano

Answer

Correct Answer: Trapezoidal box instrument with more than 100 strings, played by striking strings with small mallets.

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Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a hammer dulcimer?

More than 100 strings

Has only 50 strings

Trapezoidal box instrument

Played by striking strings with small mallets

Answer

Correct Answer: Trapezoidal box instrument

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What is hambone?

A dance

A type of sausage

Using body percussion to make music.

A method of cooking pork

Answer

Correct Answer: Using body percussion to make music.

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What is the smallest distance between two pitches called?

Half-step

Quarter-step

Whole-step

Third-step

Answer

Correct Answer: Half-step

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What is a grand staff?

A staff used by singers

A staff that includes the treble and bass staves and the ledger lines between.

A staff used by composers

A long stick used by conductors to direct an orchestra

Answer

Correct Answer: A staff that includes the treble and bass staves and the ledger lines between.

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What are the four strings attached to the long stick of a gourd banjo?

Skins

Strings

Gourds

Sticks

Answer

Correct Answer: Strings

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What is gospel music?

Music sung in a church

Religious style of music

Dance music

Music with a strong beat

Answer

Correct Answer: Religious style of music

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What is the definition of genre?

The word used to refer to the basic structure of a piece of music

A group of related pieces of music

A type or category of music

A type of music associated with a particular culture, form, or style

Answer

Correct Answer: A type or category of music

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Which of the following is NOT a music genre?

Gospel

Lullaby

Art song

Work song

Answer

Correct Answer: Work song

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What is the origin of the gavotte?

Italian peasant

French peasant

French noble

Spanish flamenco

Answer

Correct Answer: French peasant

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What is the Italian dynamic term for "loud?"

Decrescendo

Mezzo-piano

Crescendo

Forte

Answer

Correct Answer: Forte

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What does the Italian dynamic term "forte" mean?

"very soft"

"medium"

"soft"

"loud"

Answer

Correct Answer: "loud"

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What is the meaning of "form" in music?

The tempo of a piece of music

The overall structural organization of a musical composition

The dynamics of a piece of music

The relationship between the melody and harmony in a piece of music

Answer

Correct Answer: The overall structural organization of a musical composition

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What is the term for the overall structural organization of a musical composition?

Timbre

Motif

Meter

Form

Answer

Correct Answer: Form

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What is the definition of a folk song?

A song without an author.

A song that is only sung in a particular place.

A song that is handed down from generation to generation.

A song that is popular at the moment.

Answer

Correct Answer: A song that is handed down from generation to generation.

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What does the term "flat" mean in music?

A sign indicating that a note should be lowered in pitch by one whole step.

A sign indicating that a note should be raised in pitch by one whole step.

A sign indicating that a note should be raised in pitch by one half-step.

A sign indicating that a note should be lowered in pitch by one half-step.

Answer

Correct Answer: A sign indicating that a note should be lowered in pitch by one half-step.

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What does the term "flat" indicate in music?

A note should be raised in pitch by one half-step.

A note should be lowered in pitch by one half-step.

A note should be lowered in pitch by one whole step.

A note should be raised in pitch by one whole step.

Answer

Correct Answer: A note should be lowered in pitch by one half-step.

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What is a fermata?

A note that is played for half its value.

A rest that is equal to a half note.

A note that is played for twice its value.

A pause or hold of variable length determined by the performer or conductor.

Answer

Correct Answer: A pause or hold of variable length determined by the performer or conductor.

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What does expression in music mean?

The sound quality of the music.

The rhythm of the music.

The pitch of the music.

The meaning, effects, and emotion that make the music come alive.

Answer

Correct Answer: The meaning, effects, and emotion that make the music come alive.

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What does the expression "the meaning, effects, and emotion that make the music come alive" mean?

Expression refers to the ability of music to convey emotions and ideas.

Expression refers to the ability of music to evoke emotions and images.

Expression refers to the interpretive and emotional aspects of music.

Expression refers to the emotional and interpretive aspects of music.

Answer

Correct Answer: Expression refers to the emotional and interpretive aspects of music.

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What does the French term "etude" mean?

"study"

"piece"

"composition"

"performance"

Answer

Correct Answer: "study"

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What does the word "ensemble" mean?

A long, loose-fitting dress

Several performers playing together.

A small group of musicians

A group of similar things

Answer

Correct Answer: Several performers playing together.

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What is the word for several performers playing together?

Ensemble

Orchestra

Solo

Band

Answer

Correct Answer: Ensemble

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What does "encore" mean?

When performers perform another piece at audience request after the end of a performance.

The final song of a performance

An intermission

A group of singers

Answer

Correct Answer: When performers perform another piece at audience request after the end of a performance.

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What does the word "encore" mean?

"Applause"

"again"

"Bowing"

"Clapping"

Answer

Correct Answer: "again"

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What is the element of music that has to do with the overall loudness or softness of a piece of music?

Dynamics

Melody

Harmony

Form

Answer

Correct Answer: Dynamics

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What are the elements of music?

Music theory, history, ear training, composition

Art, literature, dance, theater

Singing, playing an instrument, songwriting

Dynamics, form, harmony, melody, texture, timbre, rhythm, tempo.

Answer

Correct Answer: Dynamics, form, harmony, melody, texture, timbre, rhythm, tempo.

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What is the definition of dissonance?

A combination of tones that sounds discordant and unstable but not in need of resolution.

A combination of tones that sounds concordant and stable

A combination of tones that sounds discordant and unstable, in need of resolution.

A combination of tones that sounds discordant but not unstable

Answer

Correct Answer: A combination of tones that sounds discordant and unstable, in need of resolution.

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What is the English translation for the Italian musical term "diminuendo"?

To gradually get softer

To gradually get louder

To suddenly get softer

To gradually get slower

Answer

Correct Answer: To gradually get softer

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What is the definition of descant?

A melodic part pitched higher than and concurrent with the melody.

A recitative from the 16th and early 17th centuries

The highest natural adult male singing voice

The main melody of a composition

Answer

Correct Answer: A melodic part pitched higher than and concurrent with the melody.

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What is the decrescendo?

Staying at the same volume

To gradually get louder.

Gradually get softer.

Crescendo

Answer

Correct Answer: Gradually get softer.

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Decrescendo is an Italian dynamic marking that means...?

To gradually get softer.

To gradually get louder.

To play rapidly.

To stop playing.

Answer

Correct Answer: To gradually get softer.

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What does "da capo" mean?

From the beginning

For the first time

To repeat

At the end

Answer

Correct Answer: From the beginning

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What is a chromatic scale?

A scale consisting of successive half-steps.

A scale consisting of only black keys on a piano

A scale consisting of only white keys on a piano

A scale consisting of only whole steps.

Answer

Correct Answer: A scale consisting of successive half-steps.

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What is chromatic modulation?

The process of changing from one key to an unrelated key in a composition.

The process of playing only chromatic notes.

The process of playing in more than one key at the same time.

The process of changing from one key to a related key in a composition.

Answer

Correct Answer: The process of changing from one key to an unrelated key in a composition.

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What is a chord?

Two or more notes of the same pitch sounding together

Two or more notes of different pitch sounding together

A note that is repeated

A group of people singing together

Answer

Correct Answer: Two or more notes of different pitch sounding together

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What is a canon?

A medieval weapon

A type of round in which each part enters in a specific sequence with the same melody.

A law set by the Church

A type of poetry

Answer

Correct Answer: A type of round in which each part enters in a specific sequence with the same melody.

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What is call and response?

A song style in which the singer leads and the instrument responds

A song style in which the singer and the audience take turns singing

A song style that follows a complex question/answer pattern in which multiple singers take turns leading and responding

A song style that follows a simple question/answer pattern in which one singer leads and a group responds.

Answer

Correct Answer: A song style that follows a simple question/answer pattern in which one singer leads and a group responds.

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What is a cadenza?

A section of a concerto movement that is reserved for a soloist.

A piece of sheet music

A type of musical instrument

The conductor of an orchestra

Answer

Correct Answer: A section of a concerto movement that is reserved for a soloist.

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What is the banjo?

A bowed instrument with a long guitar-like neck and circular soundtable.

A plucked instrument with a long guitar-like neck and circular soundtable.

A plucked instrument with a long guitar-like neck and oval soundtable.

A plucked instrument with a short guitar-like neck and circular soundtable.

Answer

Correct Answer: A plucked instrument with a long guitar-like neck and circular soundtable.

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What is the definition of "band"?

A group of people who play a variety ofwind and percussion instruments

Any large body of instrumental players

Vocalists who sing without instrumental accompaniment

A group of instrumentalists who play only string instruments

Answer

Correct Answer: Any large body of instrumental players

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What is ballet?

Sport where you score points by throwing a ball into a basket

Art of performing set moves in unison

Form of theatrical dance; combination of music and dancing.

A style of music

Answer

Correct Answer: Form of theatrical dance; combination of music and dancing.

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What are ballads?

Songs that tell stories, many dating back hundreds of years

Songs that are only sung on special occasions

A type of poetry

Slow, romantic songs

Answer

Correct Answer: Songs that tell stories, many dating back hundreds of years

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What does balance refer to in music?

The state of equilibrium in which all the component parts of the music are in harmony with each other.

The state of equilibrium in which all the component parts of the music are separate and distinct.

The state of equilibrium in which all the component parts of the music create a unified whole.

The state of equilibrium in which all the component parts of the music are in conflict with each other.

Answer

Correct Answer: The state of equilibrium in which all the component parts of the music create a unified whole.

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What is the range of pitch of an instrument within a particular family of instruments?

Soprano

Alto

Tenor

Bass

Answer

Correct Answer: Alto

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What does allegro mean in Italian?

Fast and furious

Slow and majestic

Vivacious, rapid, fairly fast.

Gradually increasing speed

Answer

Correct Answer: Vivacious, rapid, fairly fast.

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What is the definition of acoustics?

The study of human hearing

The study of musical sounds

The science of sound and how it's produced.

The study of musical instruments

Answer

Correct Answer: The science of sound and how it's produced.

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What is the science of sound and how it's produced called?

Astrology

Chemistry

Acoustics

Geology

Answer

Correct Answer: Acoustics

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What does accompaniment mean?

The subordinate music that supports the principal voice or instrument in a piece of music.

A type of musical composition

The act of accompanying someone

The main melody of a piece of music

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Correct Answer: The subordinate music that supports the principal voice or instrument in a piece of music.

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What is the definition of "accompaniment?"

The subordinate music that doesn't support the principle voice or instrument in a piece of music

The main melody in a piece of music

The subordinate music that supports the principal voice or instrument in a piece of music

A piece of music played on its own

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Correct Answer: The subordinate music that supports the principal voice or instrument in a piece of music

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What does accidental refer to in music?

A note that is sharpened or flattened according to the key signature

The sharpening or flattening of a particular note not indicated in the key signature of a piece

A particular note not indicated in the key signature of a piece

The naturalizing of a note that is sharpened or flattened according to the key signature

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Correct Answer: The sharpening or flattening of a particular note not indicated in the key signature of a piece

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What does the word "accent" mean?

A distinctive style or manner

Stress, emphasis, force, or loudness given to a sound or tone.

A manner of pronunciation peculiar to a particular individual, locality, or nation

To say or pronounce with an accent

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Correct Answer: Stress, emphasis, force, or loudness given to a sound or tone.

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Which of the following is NOT a definition of the word "accent?"

A distinctive way of pronouncing a language

Stress, emphasis, force, or loudness given to a sound or tone

A device used to produce sound

A musical symbol used to indicate pitch

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Correct Answer: A musical symbol used to indicate pitch

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What does the Italian tempo marking accelerando mean?

To gradually slow down

To gradually speed up or accelerate

To stop

To repeat

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Correct Answer: To gradually speed up or accelerate

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What does the term 'accelerando' mean in Italian?

To play a note shorter than written

To play two notes at the same time

Gradually speed up

To play a note at a lower pitch

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Correct Answer: Gradually speed up

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