Music Appreciation Review

____________ is the flow of music through time.

Which key sounds melancholy and serious?

• Major

• Minor

• Chromatic

• House

_____________ is the loudness or softness of tones.

What does decrescendo mean?

• To gradually descend a mountain

• To gradually get softer

• To gradually get louder

• To gradually get higher

What is another term for tone color?

• Timbre

• Tone shade

• Pitch

• Tempo

What term means the speed of the beat?

• Rhythm

• Adagio

• Largo

• Tempo

What is the smallest interval in Western music?

• A quarter tone

• A semitone

• A half step

• A whole step

Staccato means

• Smooth and connected

• Short and detached

• Stagnant

• Sharp and annoying

An octave contains

• 8 notes

• 12 notes

• 5 notes

• 47 notes