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WorksheetsYear 10 Composition Skills 1
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is Programme Music?
a)
Music which is composed with computer programmes
b)
Music which is used in television programmes
c)
Music which tells a story
d)
Violin Music
2.
What is a Leitmotif?
a)
A drum solo
b)
A tune attached to a character or theme
c)
A german folk song
d)
A trumpet melody
3.
What time signature is Dans Macabre in?
a)
2/4
b)
3/4
c)
4/4
d)
5/4
4.
What is a tritone?
a)
A Major chord
b)
A Minor chord
c)
An augmented fourth
d)
A diminished sixth
5.
How does a tritone sound?
a)
Weird and Scary
b)
Happy and peaceful
c)
Calm
d)
Like a foghorn
6.
Which instrument represents the skeletons in Danse Macabre?
a)
Glockenspeil
b)
Xylophone
c)
Marimba
d)
Pan Pipes
7.
What is an ostinato?
a)
A melody being repeated on a different instrument
b)
A repeating pattern
c)
An instrumental solo
d)
A melodic idea being repeated at different pitches
8.
What is a sequence?
a)
A repeating pattern
b)
A melodic idea being repeated at different pitches
c)
A low pitched single note being repeated
d)
A modulation
9.
What is a drone?
a)
A repeating pattern
b)
A melodic idea being repeated at different pitches
c)
A low pitched single note being repeated
d)
A modulation
10.
What is an acclerando?
a)
A repeating pattern
b)
A melodic idea being repeated at different pitches
c)
A low pitched single note being repeated
d)
The Music speeding up
11.
What is imitation?
a)
Part of a melody being repeated in a different instrument (overlapping)
b)
A melodic idea being repeated at different pitches
c)
A low pitched single note being repeated
d)
The Music speeding up
12.
Rhythm refers to...
a)
How the sounds and silences are organised in a piece of music (syncopated, straight, swung)
b)
The speed of the piece of music
c)
The melody of the piece of music
d)
How high or low the notes are
13.
Articulation refers to...
a)
If the notes are short (staccato) or long (legato)
b)
Is the notes are loud or soft
c)
The pitch of the music
d)
The speed of the music
14.
Dynamics refer to...
a)
If the notes are low or high
b)
The instruments being used
c)
The texture of the piece
d)
If the notes are loud or soft
15.
Expression refers to...
a)
The speed of the piece
b)
Whether notes are high or low
c)
The style of the individual performer or the emotion conveyed through the piece
d)
The instruments used in the piece
16.
Devices refers to....
a)
The instruments that you are using (e.g Electric guitar)
b)
Techniques that performers and composers use to perform/create a piece (e.g.riff, sequence, inversion)
c)
The speed of the music
d)
How the music has been produced in the studio
17.
Tempo refers to...
a)
The pitch of the music
b)
The speed or bpm of the music
c)
How loud the music is played
d)
Which country the music is from
18.
Instruments refer to....
a)
The apparatus used by a musician (e.g. a flute)
b)
The pitch of a piece of music
c)
The texture of a piece of music
d)
The country that the music comes from
19.
Pitch refers to...
a)
How loud a note is played
b)
Which instrument a note is played on
c)
How fast a piece is played
d)
How high or low a note is
20.
Structure refers to...
a)
The Texture of the music (e.g. homophonic)
b)
The plan for the piece of music (AB, Rondo, Ternary , Verse -Chorus)
c)
The speed of the music
d)
The venue the music is performed in
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