Music Theory MCQ Questions Answers

1. The glissando, a technique widely used in the twentieth century, is ______.

2. While in vienna, mozart relied on ________ for income.

3. By the age of thirteen, mendelssohn had written ____________ of astounding quality.

4. Baroque melodies often are ______.

5. Wagner's view of nineteenth-century opera was that __________.

6. Tchaikovsky was the first russian _____.

7. Aaron copland's name has become synonymous with american music because of his use of ______.

8. A(n) ____________ is an operatic number involving three or more leading singers.

9. A(n) ____________ is a musical number for two solo voices with orchestral accompaniment.

10. A(n) ______ is a romantic composition for piano that portrays a single mood, emotion, or idea.

11. Generally, musicals are in _____ act(s).

12. The beatles's recording _________ can be considered a unified song cycle.

13. Berg's wozzeck was inspired by _____.

14. Berg's wozzeck is considered to be a(n) _____ work.

15. Schoenberg's pierrot lunaire is associated with the twentieth-century arts movement known as _____.

16. In bach's day, the lutheran church service lasted about ____________ hour(s).

17. Igor stravinsky's rite of spring is scored for ______.

18. Giacomo puccini's opera la boh?me takes place in ______.

19. During most of his lifetime, charles ives's musical compositions _______.

20. Classicism, as a stylistic period in western music, roughly encompassed the years ______.

21. Baroque style flourished in music during the period ______.

22. Bach used ________ as a basis for many of his sacred cantatas.

23. Bach had ____ children, but only half survived into adulthood.

24. Although jazz began in bars and brothels, it is now considered ______.

25. Brahms wrote masterpieces in many musical forms, but never any ______.

26. Brahms wrote his requiem mass in memory of _____.

27. Alban berg and anton webern were arnold schoenberg's ______.

28. A classical concerto is a three-movement work for ______.

29. Drawing creative inspiration from cultures of lands foreign to the composer is known as ______.

30. Humanistic psychologists believe that psychological disorders result when _____

31. The perceived volume of a musical sound is referred to as its _______.

32. A ____________ is a singer with a low range who usually takes comic roles.

33. The _____ of a sound is decided by the frequency of its vibrations.

34. __________ was the first great innovator in 20th century american music.

35. A perceived increase in the volume of sound is best explained by ________.

36. Chopin spent much of his professional career in __________.

37. Duke ellington was an important figure in ______.

38. Beethoven was considered a __________ composer.

39. The emotional focal point of a melody is called the ______.

40. A collection of pitches arranged in ascending and descending order constitutes a _____.

41. I'm off the deep end, watch as i dive in i'll never meet the ______

42. Beethoven's sixteen __________ are generally considered among the greatest music ever composed.

43. The nineteenth-century trend toward realism in opera was known as _____.

44. The leading music center in sixteenth-century europe was ______.

45. Since 1950 many composers have returned to ______.

46. A(n) _____ is an introductory section to an opera or oratorio.

47. Stravinsky's enormous influence on twentieth-century music is due to his innovations in ______.

48. Brass instruments did not acquire valves until the ____________________ century

49. Minimalism as an artistic movement was a ______.

50. All of the following composers worked in the early years of the twentieth century except ______.

51. The immediate sources of jazz include ______.

52. The text states that __________ is the essential element in music.

53. John plays ____________ at this particular performance.

54. The final scene of wozzeck revolves around _____.

55. A pianist's skill in manipulating volume is usually referred to as the performer's __________ .

56. In what theoretical treatise did Glareanus accept the Aeolian Mode?

57. If a Phrygian mode has one flat, what is the pitch of the root?

58. Which inversion of the diminished triad has the tritone on the top?

59. What minor key has 6 sharps?

60. A breve is equivalent to __ half notes.

61. Vector Analysis is the study of what compositional technique

62. VI can also be called the _______.

63. In baritone clef, the C-clef is centered on which line of the staff?

64. The thirds in an augmented triad ascend in this order:

65. If the flutes are playing in the key of Eb then the English Horn would be in the key of

66. In the soprano clef, the C-clef is centered on which line of the staff?

67. Of which scale is Bb Lydian Dominant a derived mode?

68. What chord usually follows an augmented sixth?

69. In an Isorhythmic Tenor, what is the Talea?

70. What is the form of a 'da capo' aria?

71. What is the bottom interval of any major or minor triad in second inversion?

72. Which is the Tritone Substitute chord for D7?

73. How many notes are there in the whole tone scale?

74. Which note is the 2nd degree of Eb Phrygian scale?

75. In tenor clef, the C-clef is centered on which line of the staff?

76. What chord does a Neapolitan usually substitute?

77. In mezzo-soprano clef, the C-clef is centered on which line of the staff?

78. How would you build a Neapolitan chord in first inversion in the key of B minor?

79. What does precipitato mean in musical terms?

80. The thirds in a half-diminished chord ascend in this order:

81. A double dotted quarter note is equivalent to __ sixteenth notes.

82. Which interval would you have if you added a minor 2nd to a perfect 5th?

83. What is a Neapolitan sixth?

84. What is a vertical hemiola?

85. Which of the following keys has the most sharps in its key signature.

86. Which degree of the major scale is described as an "avoid note" during improvisation?

87. Of which scale is D Phrygian Dominant a derived mode?

88. What is a cabaletta?

89. A half or imperfect cadence is what?

90. Spell out the Secondary Dominant Chord in the key of Eb Major.

91. What minor key has 2 flats?

92. Pick the minor chord

93. "Deceptive cadence" usually refers to what progression?

94. In a 9/8 time signature, how many beat/s does the eighth note have?

95. In 4/4 time, a dotted half note is equivalent to __ sixteenth notes.

96. F Lydian mode is related to which major key signature?

97. II can also be called the _______.

98. What notes make up the following chord: Fm7b5

99. In a concert score in the key of Bb the 1st trumpet would have a key signature of

100. Which of the following is NOT a type of Augmented 6th chord.