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Music Terms No.3

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does the music term "grave" have to do with?

a)

Articulation

b)

Dynamics

c)

Tempo and mood

d)

Bury the music

2.

What does 'legato' mean?

a)

Lightly

b)

Smoothly, well connected

c)

Stretched out

d)

Dying away

3.

How do you play mezzo staccato?

a)

Short and detached

b)

Moderately loud

c)

Moderately short and detached

d)

Extremely short

4.

How do you play music marked 'grave'?

a)

Loudly

b)

Smoothly

c)

A a medium volume

d)

Slow and solemn

5.

What does M.M. mean?

a)

Maelzel's metronome (metronome marking)

b)

Moderately mysterious

c)

Meno mosso (less speed)

d)

Morendo (dying away)

6.

Explain 'ma non troppo'

a)

With lightness

b)

With smoothness

c)

But not too much

d)

But not together

7.

Explain 'piu mosso'

a)

Less movement

b)

More movement

c)

More dying away

d)

Less dying away

8.

How would you play 'semplice'?

a)

Strongly

b)

Slowly

c)

Loudly

d)

Simply

9.

What is 'tutti'?

a)

A held note

b)

With speed

c)

A passage for the whole ensemble

d)

A dance costume

10.

What does 'stringendo' mean

a)

Stretch out the phrase

b)

Push ahead faster

c)

Only for string players

d)

For solo string

11.

What is "A tempo'?

a)

New tempo

b)

Slow speed

c)

Fast speed

d)

Back to the original speed

12.

What is 'tenuto'?

a)

Play tenderly

b)

A held note, to play smoothly

c)

Short and detached

d)

10 players

13.

How do you play 'staccato'?

a)

Short and fast

b)

Short and detached

c)

Short and aggressive

d)

Loud and short

14.

How do you play 'vivace'?

a)

Slowly

b)

Aggressively

c)

Lively and spirited

d)

Moderately fast

15.

How do you play 'tremolo' ?

a)

Bowing rapidly between 2 notes

b)

Trill

c)

Calmly

d)

Ternderly

16.

What does 'allegro' mean?

a)

Slowly

b)

Gradually faster

c)

Medium tempo

d)

Fast and lively

17.

Describe 'agitato'

a)

With the bow

b)

Hurried

c)

Smoothly

d)

With feeling

18.

What does 'andante' mean?

a)

In a singing style

b)

Always

c)

At an easy walking pace

d)

Slowly

19.

What is 'cantabile'?

a)

Calmly

b)

In a singing style

c)

Slowly

d)

Well marked

20.

Explain 'doloroso'

a)

Sadly, plaintive

b)

Angry

c)

Happy

d)

Sweet