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WorksheetsThe Musical Elements
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
What is the Tempo in music?
The form
The speed
The volume
The era in which it was written
What does Pitch mean?
How many beats in a bar
How fast or slow
How high or low
How the music is played
Which of these terms is an Articulation?
staccato
crescendo
rubato
forte
Which of these terms refers to Dynamics?
legato
accelerando
ternary
pianissimo
What does Rhythm refer to?
The number of beats in each bar
The speed of the music
The length of the notes and the patterns that they make
The number of layers or parts
Which of these terms concerns Texture?
piano
rondo
percussive
homophonic
What does Structure mean?
The sections and how they relate to each other
The layers of parts and how they relate to each other
How the music is played
The choice of instruments
If you spotted a trumpet playing a melodic solo, which two Elements would you be talking about?
Harmony
Instrumentation
Texture
Dynamics
If you compare a major key with a minor one, you are discussing:
Tonality
Texture
Timbre
Tempo
Which two of these Elements can be chromatic?
Melody (Pitch)
Articulation
Rhythm
Harmony
Which Element would you be describing if you said the melody was in ABA1B1 form?
Articulation
Rhythm
Structure
Dynamics
Which TWO of these answers are Texture terms?
Homophonic
Accelerando
Fortissimo
Polyphonic
Which one of these Texture terms does "Melody and Chords" belong to?
Monophonic
Homophonic
Contrapuntal
Polyphonic
In Rhythm, what effect does adding a dot after a note have on the length of the note?
Halves the length
Doubles the length
Adds half the length again to the total
It makes no difference to the length
Which of these is NOT a Pitch (Melody) term?
Ascending
Percussive
Conjunct
Disjunct
There are eight (a) in a semibreve.
Timbre means ...
the sound quality
the way that the music is played
the texture
a piece of wood
Which of these is NOT an Articulation term?
Accented
Adagio
Staccato
Legato
Metre: 6/8 is ...
compound duple
compound triple
simple duple
simple triple
Metre: 4/4 is ...
simple duple
compound quadruple
simple triple
simple quadruple
