Music For A While

What is the time signature of the piece?

• 2/4
• 4/4
• 3/4
• 12/8

What is the voice that sings the main theme?

• Alto
• Tenor
• Soprano
• Mezzo Soprano

The ground bass in the song is how many bars long?

• 4 bars
• 6 bars
• 2 bars
• 3 bars

What year was the piece written in?

• 1692
• 1642
• 1792
• 1892

What does arpeggiated mean?

• Playing chords on different instruments
• Playing a spread chord, from bottom to top
• Playing a series of chords
• Playing chords, all three notes at the same time.

Which of the following statements are true:
The bass viol:

• It has a curved back, eight strings and is very similar to a cello
• It has six strings which are tuned to the notes D, G, C, E, A, D.
• It has a curved back and is tuned to the notes D, G, C, E, A, D 

The ground bass is presented entirely in:

• crotchets
• quavers
• semi-quavers
• dotted quavers

What is the main texture?

• Polyphonic
• Monophonic
• Melody-dominated homophony
• Polyrhythmic

How do you describe a false relation?

• A keyboard instrument
• Someone who turns out n to to be a relative but you call them Aunt or Uncle

• Two notes in close proximity sounded a semitone apart

• Notes not in the scale

There is extensive use of ornaments in which of these? 

• The soprano line and the left hand of the harpsichord
• The soprano line
• The soprano line and the right hand of the harpsichord
• The soprano line and the harpsichord