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The Musical Elements

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the Tempo in music?

a)

The form

b)

The speed

c)

The volume

d)

The era in which it was written

2.

What does Pitch mean?

a)

How many beats in a bar

b)

How fast or slow

c)

How high or low

d)

How the music is played

3.

Which of these terms is an Articulation?

a)

staccato

b)

crescendo

c)

rubato

d)

forte

4.

Which of these terms refers to Dynamics?

a)

legato

b)

accelerando

c)

ternary

d)

pianissimo

5.

What does Rhythm refer to?

a)

The number of beats in each bar

b)

The speed of the music

c)

The length of the notes and the patterns that they make

d)

The number of layers or parts

6.

Which of these terms concerns Texture?

a)

piano

b)

rondo

c)

percussive

d)

homophonic

7.

What does Structure mean?

a)

The sections and how they relate to each other

b)

The layers of parts and how they relate to each other

c)

How the music is played

d)

The choice of instruments

8.

If you spotted a trumpet playing a melodic solo, which two Elements would you be talking about?

a)

Harmony

b)

Instrumentation

c)

Texture

d)

Dynamics

9.

If you compare a major key with a minor one, you are discussing:

a)

Tonality

b)

Texture

c)

Timbre

d)

Tempo

10.

Which two of these Elements can be chromatic?

a)

Melody (Pitch)

b)

Articulation

c)

Rhythm

d)

Harmony

11.

Which Element would you be describing if you said the melody was in ABA1B1 form?

a)

Articulation

b)

Rhythm

c)

Structure

d)

Dynamics

12.

Which TWO of these answers are Texture terms?

a)

Homophonic

b)

Accelerando

c)

Fortissimo

d)

Polyphonic

13.

Which one of these Texture terms does "Melody and Chords" belong to?

a)

Monophonic

b)

Homophonic

c)

Contrapuntal

d)

Polyphonic

14.

In Rhythm, what effect does adding a dot after a note have on the length of the note?

a)

Halves the length

b)

Doubles the length

c)

Adds half the length again to the total

d)

It makes no difference to the length

15.

Which of these is NOT a Pitch (Melody) term?

a)

Ascending

b)

Percussive

c)

Conjunct

d)

Disjunct

16.

There are eight (a)   in a semibreve.

17.

Timbre means ...

a)

the sound quality

b)

the way that the music is played

c)

the texture

d)

a piece of wood

18.

Which of these is NOT an Articulation term?

a)

Accented

b)

Adagio

c)

Staccato

d)

Legato

19.

Metre: 6/8 is ...

a)

compound duple

b)

compound triple

c)

simple duple

d)

simple triple

20.

Metre: 4/4 is ...

a)

simple duple

b)

compound quadruple

c)

simple triple

d)

simple quadruple