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Final Exam

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Define Allegro

a)

Fast

b)

Slow

c)

Play in an uncontrollable tempo

d)

Play so slow that there is really not sense of tempo

2.

Define March Style

a)

To play in a lite, detached style

b)

To play heavy and slowing manner

c)

To play in a smooth and connected style

3.

Define poco a poco

a)

poke your neighbor twice

b)

Little By Little

c)

bigger and bigger

4.

What does Forte (f) mean?

a)

Ensemble plays loud

b)

I play as loud as I can

c)

Build a fort

5.

Define balance?

a)

Flutes play louder than any group in the band

b)

When you can hear each voice equally in the ensemble

c)

Trumpets play in their stands and play as soft as they can with bad tone.

6.

Define piano

a)

Band plays with poor tone and no volume

b)

To play the same as all other dynamics

c)

Great tone can be heard in the back of the hall in a soft manner

7.

Define crescendo

a)

To gradually get softer

b)

To gradually get louder

c)

To play in the same volume as before

8.

Define molto

a)

Motorcycle

b)

Much

c)

Motor

9.

Define subito

a)

Underground train

b)

Sandwich

c)

Suddenly

10.

What does a Marcato(Roof Top) Accent mean?

a)

To play detached and with emphasis

b)

To play smooth and long

11.

What is arranging music?

a)

To rewrite music to a new or different set of instrumentation

b)

To put chairs in an order

12.

What is tone?

a)

To produce a good characteristic sound on your instrument

b)

To make a sound on an instrument

13.

What is balance?

a)

When one component of the music is slightly louder than all others.

b)

The state of equilibrium where all the component parts of the music create a unified whole.

14.

What is Beat?

a)

How loud or soft you play

b)

The pulse of music

15.

What are dynamics?

a)

Degrees of loud and soft

b)

How fast you can play

16.

What is a Key Signature?

a)

Something only some of us need to look at.

b)

The sharps or flats placed at the beginning of a composition or line of music denoting the scale on which the music is based.

17.

Define a Major Scale.

a)

A scale built on the sequence of an ascending pattern of whole step, half step, whole, whole, half, whole, whole.

b)

A scale built on the sequence of an ascending pattern of two whole steps, one half step, three whole steps, and one half step.

18.

What is sightreading?

a)

Reading a book for the first time.

b)

Reading music for the first time

19.

What is timbre?

a)

The number of simultaneous sounding lines. The manner in which horizontal pitch sequences are organized.

b)

The character or quality of a sound that distinguishes one instrument, voice, or other sound source from another.

c)

What you yell when cutting down a tree.

20.

What does the term Phrasing mean?

a)

Dividing musical sentences or thoughts into melodic and/or rhythmic sections, similar to the effect of punctuation in language.

b)

The organization of sounds and silences across time; the temporal quality of sound

c)

Assessing the reasonableness and quality of music according to given criteria.

21.

What is inferring?

a)

Assessing the reasonableness and quality of music according to given criteria.

b)

The quality in a composition or performance which appeals to judgment, taste, or feelings, and which portrays the emotional intent of the composer.

c)

A thinking skill which enables one to go beyond available information to identify what reasonably may be true.

22.

What is a key signature?

a)

The basic scale and tonality of a composition.

b)

The sharps or flats placed at the beginning of a composition or line of music denoting the scale on which the music is based.

c)

The combination or mixing of voices or instruments so that no singular voice is distinguishable from the group sound.

23.

What are the Elements of music?

a)

Assessing the reasonableness and quality of music according to given criteria.

b)

A type or category of music (e.g. Sonata, Opera, Oratorio, Art Song, etc). Harmony: Two or more tones sounding together.

c)

Pitch (melody), rhythm, harmony, dynamics, timbre (tone color), texture, form, and tempo.

24.

What do you do if you improvise?

a)

The act of inventing or creating music.

b)

To create music spontaneously.

c)

The product of creating music.

25.

What is composition?

a)

Changing a phrase or composition to a key other than the one in which the piece is written.

b)

The product of creating music.

c)

To create music spontaneously.

26.

Tempo is...

a)

Changing a phrase or composition to a key other than the one in which the piece is written.

b)

The speed of music.

c)

The character or quality of a sound that distinguishes one instrument, voice, or other sound source from another.

27.

What is Texture?

a)

The number of simultaneous sounding lines. The manner in which horizontal pitch sequences are organized.

b)

The manner of producing musical tones. In wind instruments, it involves the coordination of breath support, tonguing, and embouchure. In stringed instruments, it involves the varied uses of the bow and finger movement, such as vibrato.

c)

Singing or playing the same notes by all singers or players, either at exactly the same pitch or in a different octave.

28.

Accompaniment is....

a)

The characteristics of attack and decay of tones and the manner and extent to which tones in sequence are connected or disconnected.

b)

Degrees of loudness.

c)

The musical background for principal musical part(s).

29.

Articulation is...

a)

A few measures or a section added to the end of a piece of music to make a more effective ending.

b)

The characteristics of attack and decay of tones and the manner and extent to which tones in sequence are connected or disconnected.

c)

The quality in a composition or performance which appeals to judgment, taste, or feelings, and which portrays the emotional intent of the composer.

30.

What is meter?

a)

The grouping in which a succession of rhythmic pulses or beats is organized, indicated by a meter signature at the beginning of a work.

b)

An indication of the meter of a musical composition, usually presented in the form of a fraction; the lower number indicates the unit of measurement, and the upper number indicates the number of units that make up a measure.

c)

A continually recurring rhythmic or melodic pattern.