Musical Textures Quiz

What is the musical texture that has 'many voices'?

• Polyphonic

• Monophonic

• Homophonic

• Heterophony

Which musical texture is made up of a single unaccompanied melodic line?

• Polyphonic

• Monophonic

• Homophonic

• Heterophony

Which musical texture is based primarily on chords?

• Polyphonic

• Monophonic

• Homophonic

• Heterophony

What is the term for independent variation on a single melody by two or more voices?

• Polyphonic

• Monophonic

• Homophonic

• Heterophony

What is the term for a melody that skips around in intervals larger than a 2nd?

• Disjunct Motion

• Conjunct Motion

• Chromatic Motion

• Alberti Bass

What is the term for a melody that moves in stepwise motion?

• Disjunct Motion

• Conjunct Motion

• Chromatic Motion

• Alberti Bass

What is the term for movement by half-steps?

• Disjunct Motion

• Conjunct Motion

• Chromatic Motion

• Alberti Bass

What is the term for an arpeggiated broken chord with a specific pattern played repetitively by the left-hand on a keyboard or piano composition?

• Alberti Bass

• Ostinato

• Canon

• Walking Bass

What is the term for a continually repeated musical phrase or rhythm?

• Alberti Bass

• Ostinato

• Canon

• Walking Bass

What is the term for a polyphonic vocal composition in which three or four voices follow each other around in a perpetual canon at the unison or octave?

• Alberti Bass

• Ostinato

• Canon

• Walking Bass