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Music Theory Review

Total questions: 52

Worksheet time: 4hrs 16mins

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Class
Date
1.

What letters are in the music alphabet?

a)

C D E F G H I

b)

A B C E F G I

c)

G F E D C B A

d)

A B C D E F

2.

The staff has...

a)

5 lines and 4 spaces

b)

4 lines and 5 spaces

c)

5 lines and 3 spaces

d)

4 lines and 6 spaces

3.

The staff is where...

a)

music sometimes happens

b)

nothing happens

c)

you see rests

d)

all the music happens

4.

What clef is this?

a)

Tenor Clef

b)

Bass Clef

c)

Treble Clef

d)

Alto Clef

5.

What clef is this?

a)

Treble Clef

b)

Alto Clef

c)

Bass Clef

d)

Tenor Clef

6.

What do ledger lines do?

a)

Extend the staff above and below

b)

Extend the staff below only

c)

Extend the staff above only

d)

Nothing

7.

Music is sound and silence.

a)

True

b)

False

8.

The symbols for sound is called

a)

notes

b)

rests

c)

quarter

d)

sound

9.

The symbols for silence are called

a)

notes

b)

quiet

c)

rests

d)

piano

10.

What is the name of this note?

a)

eighth note

b)

quarter note

c)

sixteenth note

d)

whole note

11.

What is the name of this note?

a)

whole note

b)

quarter note

c)

half note

d)

sixteenth note

12.

What is the name of this note?

a)

Eighth note

b)

Sixteenth Note

c)

Whole Note

d)

Half Note

13.

What is the name of this note?

a)

eighth note

b)

sixteenth note

c)

quarter note

d)

half note

14.

What is the name of this note?

a)

quarter note

b)

whole note

c)

sixteenth note

d)

eighth note

15.

What is the name of this rest?

a)

eighth rest

b)

quarter rest

c)

whole rest

d)

half rest

16.

What is the name of this rest?

a)

whole rest

b)

half rest

c)

quarter rest

d)

eighth rest

17.

What is the name of this rest?

a)

half rest

b)

whole rest

c)

quarter rest

d)

eighth rest

18.

What is the name of this rest?

a)

half rest

b)

quarter rest

c)

whole rest

d)

eighth rest

19.

Music is divided up into measures by using...

a)

ledger lines

b)

bar lines

c)

double bar lines

d)

repeats

20.

What is a measure?

a)

the distance between two repeat signs

b)

the distance between two bar lines

c)

the distance between two whole notes

d)

the distance from start to finish

21.

The double bar tells us...

a)

when to start

b)

to repeat back to the beginning

c)

when the music stops

d)

the distance between two bar lines

22.

What is made up of two numbers placed one above the other on the staff and tells us the value of notes?

a)

Key signature

b)

The clef

c)

Time signature

d)

Note signature

23.

Which number tells us which note gets the beat?

a)

Top Number

b)

Bottom Number

24.

Which number tells us how many beats are in each measure?

a)

Top Number

b)

Bottom Number

25.

If a 4 is on the bottom, what gets the beat?

a)

quarter note

b)

half note

c)

whole note

d)

eighth note

26.

If an 8 is on the bottom, what gets the beat?

a)

whole note

b)

half note

c)

quarter note

d)

eighth note

27.

If a 2 is on the bottom, what gets the beat?

a)

half note

b)

quarter note

c)

whole note

d)

eighth note

28.

If a 1 is on the bottom, what gets the beat?

a)

half note

b)

quarter note

c)

whole note

d)

eighth note

29.

What time signature do we read in the most?

a)
b)
c)
d)
30.

What is the name of this symbol that means the same thing as 4/4?

a)

common pulse

b)

common time

c)

common signature

d)

common note

31.

What are sharp, flat, and natural signs?

a)

notes

b)

rests

c)

accidentals

d)

keys

32.

An accidental raises or lowers a note by a half step (one chromatic note up or down) or cancels a flat/sharp

a)

False

b)

True

33.

What is this?

a)

hashtag

b)

natural

c)

flat

d)

sharp

34.

What is this?

a)

natural

b)

the letter b

c)

flat

d)

sharp

35.

What is this?

a)

A box

b)

sharp

c)

flat

d)

natural

36.

Which accidental raises a note by a half step?

a)

flat

b)

sharp

c)

natural

37.

Which accidental lowers a note by a half step?

a)

flat

b)

sharp

c)

natural

38.

What does a natural sign do?

a)

cancels out a flat or sharp for a measure

b)

cancels out only flats

c)

cancels out only sharps

d)

makes all notes in a song natural

39.

The accidental rule means that all accidentals carry through a full measure unless the note is changed by another accidental.

a)

True

b)

False

40.

What is the name of two different notes that are fingered and sound the same, but have different note names?

a)

Enharmonic Tones

b)

Harmonic Tones

c)

Natural Notes

d)

Accidentals

41.

A flat is the same as

a)

G Flat

b)

F Sharp

c)

G Sharp

d)

B Flat

42.

A Sharp is the same as...

a)

B flat

b)

G flat

c)

D flat

d)

E flat

43.

G flat is the same as...

a)

D sharp

b)

A sharp

c)

F sharp

d)

C sharp

44.

D sharp is the same as...

a)

C flat

b)

E flat

c)

G flat

d)

A flat

45.

D flat is the same as...

a)

C sharp

b)

D sharp

c)

F sharp

d)

B flat

46.

This tells you which sharps or flats to play in the whole song and comes after clef.

a)

Time signature

b)

Accidentals

c)

Key Signature

d)

Scale

47.

What does Tempo mean?

a)

What notes to play

b)

What notes are altered

c)

Which notes to leave out

d)

How fast or slow the music is

48.

What does articulation mean?

a)

how to finger a note

b)

how to tongue or slur a note

c)

how long to hold a note out

d)

to leave a note out

49.

What does this tell you to do?

a)

Skip the next two measures

b)

jump to the middle of the song

c)

stop playing

d)

repeat the previous section

50.

What tells you to not tongue between notes?

a)

slur

b)

flat

c)

articulation

d)

da capo

51.

What is a curved line connecting two or more notes of the same pitch (tongue the first note only)?

a)

a slur

b)

a tie

c)

legato

d)

phrase

52.

What is this called and tell you to do?

a)

1st and 2nd Endings - Repeat the previous section of music, then go on to the second ending

b)

Repeat Sign - go back to the beginning

c)

Da Capo - Go to the ending

d)

Tie - connects two notes of the same pitch