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PRELUDE
1.
Which of these elements of music is
considered the most basic?
6.
a. very slow
a. melody
b. fast
b. harmony
c. moderately slow
c. rhythm
d. loud
d. timbre
e. meter
[b]
7.
[c]
2.
b. moderately slow
a. notes
c. fast
b. lines
d. high
c. spaces
[b]
8.
e. clefs
b. melody
Rhythmic notation indicates the __________
duration of a note or rest.
c. harmony
d. rhythm
a. specific
[d]
b. proportional
[b]
4.
More musical terms have been borrowed
from __________ than from any other
language.
a. English
b. French
c. German
d. Italian
[d]
5.
Tempo markings indicate the __________ at
which a piece should be performed.
a. level of pitch
b. level of volume
c. level of intensity
d. rate of speed
[d]
Meter organizes __________.
a. timbre
[a]
3.
Andante means __________.
a. soft
Musical sounds are written as __________.
d. rests
Allegro means __________.
9.
Metered music is more appropriately
compared with __________.
a. prose
b. poetry
[b]
10. A measure contains a specific number of
__________.
a. notes
b. rests
c. beats
d. tempos
[c]
11. In Western music, an accent normally falls
on the __________ beat of a measure.
a. first
b. second
c. third
d. last
[a]
12. The frequency of a sound is the
__________.
a. level of volume it produces
b. shape of the sound wave
c. number of times the sound is produced
d. rate at which the sound-producing
medium vibrates
[d]
13. Pitch refers to the __________ of a musical
sound.
16. An octave is __________.
a. a scale with eight steps
b. a motive
c. a chord
d. the interval of an eighth
[d]
17. Tones have __________.
a. letter names
b. number names
c. no names
[a]
18. Scale comes from the Italian word meaning
__________.
a. harmony
b. pitch
c. chord
a. highness or lowness
d. ladder
b. loudness or softness
[d]
c. intensity
d. timbre
[a]
14. Which one of the following elements of
music is considered a linear concept?
a. rhythm
b. harmony
c. melody
d. timbre
[c]
15. The distance between tones is called a(n)
__________.
a. interval
b. scale
c. motive
d. rest
[a]
19. The major and minor scales each contain the
same number of half and whole steps.
a. true
b. false
[a]
20. The arrangement of half and whole steps is
the same in both the major and minor scales.
a. true
b. false
[b]
21. The tonic is the __________ note of a
diatonic scale.
a. first
b. second
c. fifth
d. last
[a]
22. The diatonic scales are also called the
__________ scales.
27. A chord is the purposeful sounding together
of three or more __________.
a. modal
a. scales
b. tuneful
b. tonics
c. chordal
c. tunes
d. tonal
d. tones
[d]
[d]
23. The tonic is the name of the tonality or
__________ of a tonal composition.
28. The quality of a musical sound is called its
__________.
a. key
a. melody
b. chord
b. harmony
c. texture
c. rhythm
d. timbre
d. timbre
[a]
[d]
24. A brief, fragmentary melodic idea is called a
__________.
29. Dynamic level refers to how __________
music is.
a. tune
a. loud or soft
b. scale
b. high or low
c. motive
c. fast or slow
d. chord
d. easy or difficult
[c]
[a]
25. If a melody is angular in contour, there will
be __________ between the tones.
30. The timbre of a musical sound is affected by
__________.
a. large leaps
a. the size of the musical instrument
b. small steps
b. the material of which the instrument is
made
[a]
26. Harmony is __________ included in
European and American (Western) music.
a. rarely
b. never
c. usually
d. always
[c]
c. the dynamic level at which the instrument
is played
d. all of the above
[d]
31. In music, the Italian word paino means
__________.
a. fast
b. soft
c. slow
d. loud
[b]
32. The technique of placing accents between
beats or on normally weak beats is called
__________.
34. In quadruple meter, there is normally a
secondary accent on the __________ beat of
each measure.
a. acculturation
a. first
b. syncopation
b. second
c. maturation
c. third
d. elevation
d. fourth
[b]
[c]
33. Program or programmatic music
__________.
35. The smallest interval on a keyboard
instrument is a __________ step.
a. is always syncopated
a. quarter
b. includes an extramusical or nonmusical
meaning
b. half
c. has melodic interest in more than one line
d. is monophonic in texture
[b]
c. whole
d. micro[b]
36. Tonality is the system of __________ that
governs most Western music.
a. harmony
b. rhythm
c. notation
d. performance
[a]