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WorksheetsGCSE music harmony vocabulary
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
If a harmony is dissonant it means it's
Smooth
Spikey
Clashy
harmonious
You know a chord is minor if it sounds
Fast
Sad
Slow
Happy
If you play a scale of all the white notes from D-D it is
Major
Dorian mode
pentatonic
scalic
If a piece sounds 'happy', it is
Major
Up beat
Fast
Diatonic
If the music sounds clashy, not major or minor it is
Strong
Legato
Atonal
Anacrusis
If you hear a finished cadence that sounds like a strong finish it is
Plagal
Interrupted
Perfect
Imperfect
What does it mean a piece 'modulates'?
The music has moved to a different key
The music has moved to a different tone
The music has moved to a different metre
The music has moved to a different instrument
A plagal cadence sounds like
A musical question
Unfinished
A full stop
Amen
If you change the pitch of the music, you
Perform it
Improvise it
Transpose it
Compose it
What harmonic device is a long sustained note?
Chord
Pedal
Ostinato
Suspension
What do you call two or more sustained notes?
Anacrusis
Portamento
Glissando
Drone
If the harmony sounds 'nice' it is
Well written
Close
Conjunct
Consonant
What chords are used in an interrupted cadence?
V-IV
IV-V
V-VI
V-I
What is an arpeggio?
A chord played one note at a time
A chord played with another
A fast scalic passage
A squeeze box instrument
What is the opposite of diatonic?
Legato
Staccato
Plagal
Chromatic
What are the notes of Aelion mode?
C-C
B-B
A-A
G-G
What cadence sounds unfinished and uses the chords I-V?
Perfect
Plagal
Imperfect
Interrupted
If a music has no key it is
Diatonic
Major
Minor
Atonal
Folk music is often
Fancy
Modal
Simple
Chromatic
If a chord has a flattened 3rd e.g. C -Eb - G it is
An extension chord
Minor
Major
Closed
