Star wars quiz 17-10-23

What is the name of the music ensemble used in Star Wars?

• Brass Band

• Symphony Orchestra

• Chamber Orchestra

• Wind orchestra

What is the specific name for the opening sounds in the first few bars before the melody is established?

• Harmony

• Melody

• Fanfare

• Fugue

When a character has a phrase attached to their appearances on stage or screen, what is this compositional tool called?

• phrase

• ostinato

• scale

• leitmotif

What does the word tonality refer to?

• Atonal music

• Music based in a scale or key

• Music in cluster chords

• Modal music

The term tremolando means...

• sliding from one note to the next

• playing a long sustained note

• playing the note and the note above repeatedly at a fast tempo

• rapid repetition of a singe note

Dynamics describe what musical feature?

• pitch

• volume

• texture

• sound quality

Which word describes music getting gradually slower

• lento

• accellerando

• ritardando

• allegro

Conjunct is a word that describes melody, what is happening to the notes in the melody if it is said to be conjunct?

• Where a melody is only contains short notes

• Where a melody only contains one rhythm

• Where a melody is moving up or down by leaps and not steps

• Where a melody is moving up or down by step and not leaps

A Fanfare usually mainly involves two instrumental families (although other instruments may be accompanying), which ones?

• brass and percussion

• brass and woodwind

• strings and woodwind

• woodwind and strings

A major scale has the following order of tones and semitones

• TTSTSTS

• TTSTTTS

• TSTTTST

• STSSTTST