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WorksheetsUnit 1 Test
Total questions: 51
Worksheet time: 13hrs 45mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The Musical Alphabet is comprised of how many notes?
a)
1
b)
8
c)
7
d)
9
2.
What are the names of the notes in the Musical Alphabet?
a)
ABCDEFH
b)
ABCDEFG
c)
ABDCFRT
d)
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3.
What is the next note? ABCDEFG
a)
A
b)
B
c)
C
d)
D
4.
What note is missing? ACDEFG
a)
C
b)
D
c)
F
d)
B
5.
How many notes are missing? ACBDFE
a)
1
b)
2
c)
3
d)
4
6.
What note is missing? ADBCEG
a)
A
b)
C
c)
D
d)
F
7.
A _____________ has four spaces and five lines?
a)
Cleff
b)
Bar Line
c)
Measure
d)
Staff
8.
A staff is what is used to place musical __________ on.
a)
Beats
b)
Tempos
c)
Notes
d)
Timbres
9.
A musical staff uses these vertical lines to divide itself.
a)
Bar Lines
b)
Drive Thru Lines
c)
Five Lines
d)
Musical Lines
10.
On a staff, the area between two bar lines is called what?
a)
Measures
b)
Rhythms
c)
Melodies
d)
Harmonies
11.
A measure is the area between two what?
a)
Rocks
b)
Bars
c)
Lines
d)
Bar Lines
12.
What is this symbol 4/4?
a)
Time signature
b)
John Hancock
c)
Herbie Hancock
d)
Fraction
13.
How many beats are in a measure with this time signature? 3/4
a)
Four
b)
Two
c)
Five
d)
Three
14.
How many beats are in a measure with this time signature? 2/4
a)
1
b)
4
c)
3
d)
2
15.
What type of note receives 4 beats?
a)
Quarter
b)
Whole
c)
Half
d)
Sixteenth
16.
How many beats does a whole note receive?
a)
1
b)
4
c)
3
d)
2
17.
How many beats does a half note receive?
a)
1
b)
4
c)
3
d)
2
18.
How many beats does a half rest receive?
a)
4
b)
2
c)
3
d)
1
19.
How many beats does a whole rest receive?
a)
4
b)
.5
c)
6
d)
1
20.
How many families of musical instruments are there?
a)
7
b)
3
c)
9
d)
4
21.
Which of the following is not a family of musical instruments?
a)
Percussion
b)
Brass
c)
Drumset
d)
Woodwinds
22.
What family of instruments does the trumpet belong to?
a)
Woodwind
b)
Kardashians
c)
Percussion
d)
Brass
23.
A harmonica is a brass instrument?
a)
True
b)
False
24.
Most woodwind instruments are made of wood?
a)
False
b)
True
25.
Saxophones are made out of brass. However, this causes them to be in the woodwind family.
a)
Mouthpiece
b)
Buzzer
c)
Mallet
d)
Reed
26.
Clarinets, like the saxophone, use reeds?
a)
False
b)
True
27.
This instrument is the largest of the brass family?
a)
Piccolo
b)
Flute
c)
Trombone
d)
Tuba
28.
The violin is part of the string family?
a)
True
b)
False
29.
A percussion instrument is anything that you can strike and make a sound with?
a)
False
b)
True
30.
This percussion instrument has strings?
a)
Harp
b)
Violin
c)
Guitar
d)
Piano
31.
Which of the following instruments does not belong in the string family?
a)
Guitar
b)
Violin
c)
Piano
d)
Banjo
32.
The words of a song is called the what?
a)
Rhythm
b)
Harmony
c)
Bass Line
d)
Melody
33.
Does the melody of a song always have to have words?
a)
Yes
b)
No
34.
Choose the following piece whose melody does not have words?
a)
Yeah!
b)
Uptown Funk
c)
Rocky Top
d)
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
35.
Harmony in music is at least how many notes being played at once?
a)
2
b)
3
c)
1
d)
4
36.
The form in music means what?
a)
The shape of the piece
b)
How the words go
c)
How many words it has
d)
What the shape of the notes are
37.
Texture in music refers to what?
a)
How thick the music is
b)
How many people are in the ensemble
c)
How happy the music sounds
d)
How sad the music sounds
38.
If all the members of an ensemble are playing at the same time, will the texture be thick or thin?
a)
Thick
b)
Thin
39.
How loud or soft something is in music is called what?
a)
Dynamics
b)
Sounds
c)
Melody
d)
Harmony
40.
All music is meant to be played loud?
a)
No
b)
Yes
41.
How fast a piece of music is going is called the what?
a)
Beat
b)
Rhythm
c)
Tempo
d)
Verse
42.
All music goes the same tempo?
a)
True
b)
False
43.
Bluegrass music is considered part of this genre of music?
a)
Rock
b)
Pop
c)
Classical
d)
Country
44.
A symphony orchestra typically plays this genre of music?
a)
Pop
b)
Rap
c)
Country
d)
Classical
45.
Many people in the United States do not like opera for this reason?
a)
It isn't in English
b)
It is in English
c)
It is in Italian
d)
It is in German
46.
The first type of ensemble was what?
a)
Choirs
b)
Orchestras
c)
Bands
47.
Any group of instruments performing together is considered an ensemble.
a)
True
b)
False
48.
Small classical music ensembles are called this
a)
Symphony Orchestra
b)
Chamber Ensembles
c)
Wind Ensemble
d)
Choir
49.
Where does the term "Chamber Ensemble" come from?
a)
Small groups performing in the living chamber of a large house
b)
Group performing in jail
c)
Group performing in public
d)
Group performing in a theatre
50.
A broom can be used as a percussion instrument?
a)
True
b)
False
51.
Bonus
Where do yo think music as we know it today originated?
Where do yo think music as we know it today originated?
a)
Ancient Egypt
b)
Ancient Greece
c)
Roman Empire
d)
Native Americans
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