Black Belt Quiz

An eighth note lasts for 1/2 beat of ________.

• the song

• sound

• music

An eighth rest lasts for 1/2 beat of _______.

• silence

• sound

• music

American composer and conductor John Phillip Sousa (1854-1932) wrote 136 _______.

• letters

• symphonies

• marches

Known as "The March King," Sousa wrote The Stars and Stripes _______, Semper _______, The Washington ____ and many other patriotic works.

• Forever, Post, Fidelis

• Song, Fido, Paper

• Forever, Fidelis, Post

Sousa's band performed all over the _______, and his fame helped boost the popularity of bands in America.

• world

• country

• universe

"O Canada," formerly known as the "________ Song," was first performed during 1880 in French Canada.

• National

• Canadian

• Country

Robert Stanley Weir translated the _______ language version in 1908.

• French

• English

• Spanish

O Canada was not adopted as the national anthem of Canada until 1980, ___ _______ years after its premeire.

• one hundred

• one or two

• one thousand

Two notes that are written differently, but sound the same (and played with the same fingering) are called _________

• enharmonies

• enharmonias

• enharmonics

On a _____ keyboard, each black key is both a flat and a sharp.

• computer

• piano