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WorksheetsBasic Music Symbols
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The Staff is comprised of how many lines and spaces?
a)
Four lines and three spaces.
b)
Six lines and five spaces.
c)
Five lines and four spaces.
2.
Barlines divide the Staff into measures.
a)
True
b)
False
3.
The top number of a Time Signature tells you:
a)
How fast to play.
b)
How many beats per measure.
c)
When class ends and you may go to lunch.
4.
The bottom number of the Time Signature tells what type of note receives one beat/count.
a)
True
b)
False
5.
The Whole Note receives how many beats of sustained sound?
a)
Four beats with a release on one of the next measure.
b)
Three beats and one breath.
c)
Four beats.
d)
Two beats and one big breath for the next note.
6.
When reading a Whole Rest you...
a)
Continue playing through the rest,
b)
Stop playing and stop counting
c)
Do nothing.
d)
Release the previous note on the first beat of the rest and keep counting.
7.
If you play trombone, baritone BC, tuba, electric bass and timpani you play in the ...
a)
C Clef
b)
Treble Clef
c)
Alto Clef
d)
Bass Clef
8.
If you play flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, French horn, trumpet, bells and guitar you play in the ....
a)
Alto Clef
b)
Treble Clef
c)
Zombie Clef
d)
F Clef
9.
Common time C refers to...
a)
Lunch time.
b)
Four-four time.
c)
When you gossip with friends.
10.
Solo means...
a)
Everyone plays.
b)
Whole section plays.
c)
One person plays.
11.
Soli means...
a)
One person plays.
b)
Everyone plays.
c)
Whole section plays.
12.
Tutti means...
a)
One person plays.
b)
Everyone plays.
c)
Whole section plays.
13.
Forte means..
a)
Play very soft.
b)
Play full and not brash.
c)
Play as loud as you can.
14.
To play piano means ...
a)
To play Mom's piano.
b)
Play with full voice.
c)
Play with a whisper voice.
15.
A saxophone is a brass instrument?
a)
True
b)
False
16.
Crescendo means?
a)
A new Google APP.
b)
To gradually slow down.
c)
Gradually get louder.
d)
Stop playing immediately.
17.
Ritard means to...
a)
Tune you guitar.
b)
Look at the director, start to slow down and listen to the band.
c)
A fancy mustard.
d)
Get louder immediately.
18.
Decrescendo means...
a)
To gradually get softer.
b)
A new of clothes.
c)
To gradually get louder.
d)
New movie theater in town.
19.
The beat unit is another name for what is music?
a)
Dynamics.
b)
Pulse.
c)
Pitch.
d)
Forte.
20.
The system for organizing notes and rests in music.
a)
Ritard.
b)
Rhythm.
c)
Intonation.
d)
Notation.
21.
The letters D.C. in music stands for?
a)
Don't care.
b)
District of Columbia
c)
Go back to the sign.
d)
Go back to the beginning of the music.
22.
A dot directly over a quarter or eighth note means?
a)
You tongue the note.
b)
You separate the notes.
c)
You play light and short.
d)
All of the above.
23.
The abbreviation RIT means?
a)
Play faster.
b)
A river in Tennessee.
c)
Gradually slow down.
d)
Stop!
24.
A short line directly over a note means?
a)
Slur.
b)
Play short and separated.
c)
Huff and puff and blow the note down.
d)
Play full value and connect.
25.
D.S al Fine means?
a)
Go to the fine and play to the fine.
b)
Go to the sign and play to the fine.
c)
Go to the second ending and play the coda.
d)
Go to the sign and end at the fine.
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