Exploring Music: Final Exam Review Game

Humans have been using string instruments to create music for thousands of years.

• True

• False

What type of drum is made of metal and struck with a mallet?

• snare drum

• 
  

  steelpan drum

• bass drum

• didgeridoo

Carrie is writing a composition in which she is having one instrument play short, fast notes while another plays long, slow notes. Carrie is MOST likely using which compositional technique?

• contrast

• repetition

• variation

• texture

Chika is listening to music and identifies it as being tonal. What has Chika identified about the music?

• It is free flowing without direction.

• 
  

  It is “colorful.”

• 
  

  It uses dissimilar sounds.

• 
  It is played in a conventional key.

What compositional technique involves using different musical elements at different times to make one statement of the motive stand out from another?

• contrast

• repetition

• texture

• variation

How is South African music similar to jazz music?

• 
  

  They both use improvisation.

• They both use world instruments.

• They both focus on major keys.

• 
  

  They both use syncopation.

were both classical period composers.

(a)  

is the MOST common chord progression in C major.

(a)  

 

The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Madonna, and Taylor Swift are all examples of pop music.

• True

• Flase

Mastering musicianship can be done quickly and with much ease.

• True

• False