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TEST ITEM FILE 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]