Elements of music

What element of music refers to the quality of sounds?

• Timbre

• Tempo

• Dynamics

• Rhythm

Which of the following is NOT an element of music?

• Pitch

• Duration

• Allegro

• Texture

Which of the statement/s best describes music? Check as many as you can.

• Music is an art form, and cultural activity, whose medium is sound.

• Music, art concerned with combining vocal or instrumental sounds for beauty of form or emotional expression.

• Is an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms.

• Music is anything but unpleasant sounds.

What element of music is concerned about chord progression, major & minor keys, consonance & dissonance, and atonality and tonality?

• Texture

• Rhythm

• Harmony

• Melody

Which of the following is a type of texture?

• Monophonic, homophonic, and polyphonic

• Binary, ternary, strophic, and through-composed

• Forte, piano, [etc.], crescendo, and decrescendo

• Soprano, alto, baritone, tenor, and bass

Which of the following is a female voice register?

• Baritone

• Tenor

• Bass

• Alto

Which of the following is NOT a male voice register?

• Baritone

• Bass

• Tenor

• Alto

What element of music refers to the speed of the underlying beat?

• Timbre

• Tone

• Tempo

• Texture

What do you call the arrangement of pitches and/or chords of a musical work in a hierarchy of perceived relations, stabilities, attractions and directionality?

• Dissonance

• Chromaticism

• Tonality

• Atonality

What do you call the lack of harmony among musical notes?

• Melody

• Dissonance

• Tonality

• Bitonality