Music Examination (Grade 1-3)

What is a dot?

Rallentando means

• Gradually getting faster

• slow

• gradually getting slower

• smoothly

What does Cantabile mean?

What does ritenuto mean?

• held back

• at a medium

• detached

• quiet

What does the top number in a time signature mean?

• twelve beats in a bar

• seven beats in a bar

• how many beats in a bar

• what type of note in a bar

What does Dolce mean?

• a little

• sweet

• expressive

• without

• soft

What minor key has Bb and C#?

What does giocoso mean?

• playful,merry

• loud

• less

• and

A semibreve lasts as long as how many demi-semi quavers?

• 12

• 24

• 2

• 32

When the number "3" is placed over a group of notes, what is it called?

• duplet

• onelet

• triplet

• quadruplet