Acoustical Engineering MCQ Questions Answers

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

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

3. What does the word "quintet" mean?

4. What is a quartet?

5. What does "piano" mean in Italian?

6. What is the Italian dynamic marking for "soft"?

7. What does the Italian musical term "pianissimo" mean?

8. What is the purpose of phrase marks in music?

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

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

11. What is the percussion family?

12. What is a pentatonic scale?

13. What is an orchestra?

14. What is an oratorio?

15. What is opera?

16. What is the definition of opera?

17. What does octet mean?

18. What does the term "octave" refer to?

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

20. How many counts does a quarter note receive?

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

22. What is notation?

23. What is the definition of notation?

24. What does the word "nocturne" mean?

25. What is a natural note?

26. What does a natural note mean in music?

27. What is a melodic motif?

28. What is a measure?

29. What is a march?

30. How many half-steps are in a major scale?

31. What is the formula for a major scale?

32. What is a major scale?

33. What is a "major" in music?

34. What is a libretto?

35. What does the Italian tempo marking "lento" mean?

36. What does a ledger line represent?

37. What is a ledger line?

38. What does the Italian term "legato" describe?

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

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

41. What is the key?

42. What is jazz characterized by?

43. What is the main characteristic of Jazz music?

44. What is the main purpose of an introduction?

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

46. What does the word "instrumental" mean?

47. What does instrumental mean?

48. How many instrument families are there in an orchestra?

49. What does it mean to improvise?

50. What is the definition for home tone?

51. What is harmony?

52. What is the definition of harmony?

53. What is the hammer dulcimer?

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

55. What is hambone?

56. What is the smallest distance between two pitches called?

57. What is a grand staff?

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

59. What is gospel music?

60. What is the definition of genre?

61. Which of the following is NOT a music genre?

62. What is the origin of the gavotte?

63. What is the Italian dynamic term for "loud?"

64. What does the Italian dynamic term "forte" mean?

65. What is the meaning of "form" in music?

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

67. What is the definition of a folk song?

68. What does the term "flat" mean in music?

69. What does the term "flat" indicate in music?

70. What is a fermata?

71. What does expression in music mean?

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

73. What does the French term "etude" mean?

74. What does the word "ensemble" mean?

75. What is the word for several performers playing together?

76. What does "encore" mean?

77. What does the word "encore" mean?

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

79. What are the elements of music?

80. What is the definition of dissonance?

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

82. What is the definition of descant?

83. What is the decrescendo?

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

85. What does "da capo" mean?

86. What is a chromatic scale?

87. What is chromatic modulation?

88. What is a chord?

89. What is a canon?

90. What is call and response?

91. What is a cadenza?

92. What is the banjo?

93. What is the definition of "band"?

94. What is ballet?

95. What are ballads?

96. What does balance refer to in music?

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

98. What does allegro mean in Italian?

99. What is the definition of acoustics?

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