Snow Day A & H Quiz

The word "register" is most closely associated with which element of music?

• form

• harmony

• pitch

• texture

If a composer calls for staccato notes, how should they be played?

• smoothly

• quietly

• loudly

• detached

What kind of musical symbol is this?

• bass clef

• repeat sign

• half rest

• slur

Vivaldi's The Four Seasons are an example of which musical form below, in which a solo instrument is accompanied by an orchestra?

• nocturne

• concerto

• fanfare

• opera

Which of the following statements about music's Romantic Era is FALSE?

• Bach and Handel were its two most prominent composers

• Composers were concerned with personal expression of strong emotions

• It lasted for much of the 19th Century

• Many songs were nationalistic-they celebrated composers' homelands

In the picture, the person is playing what instrument?

• guiro

• lute

• ocarina

• dulcimer

Which instrument below does NOT have a keyboard?

• synthesizer

• organ

• timpani

• harpsichord

The sousaphone is MOST closely related to what other brass instrument?

• trumpet

• tuba

• trombone

• French horn

George Gershwin included a tuba and violin, bluesy melodies for strings and muted trumpet, and honking taxi horns in which work below, a piece of program music that was his first purely orchestral work?

• Of Thee I Sing

• An American in Paris

• Nice Work If You Can Get It

• Rhapsody in Blue

Place, focus, and relationship are subsets of which dance element?

• time

• energy

• action

• space