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Melody

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the"horizontal movement of music" or the "organization of a series of tones"?

a)

melody

b)

earworm

2.

What is the degree of "highness" or "lowness" of an individual sound?

a)

pitch

b)

melody

3.

Which type of sounds have the sound waves "closer together"?

a)

higher

b)

lower

4.

What is solfege?

a)

a bunch of syllables from The Sound of Music

b)

a musical language for pitch

5.

How many letters are in the musical alphabet?

a)

26

b)

7

c)

8

6.

What is the shape (outline) of the melody?

a)

waves

b)

contour

7.

What is a series of pitches?

a)

tonal pattern

b)

do mi sol

8.

Which term is a "musical sentence"?

a)

contour

b)

phrase

9.

Which 3 solfege pitches are the pitches for the phrase "pumpkin pie" or "do remember me"?

a)

mi, re, do

b)

do, mi, sol

c)

do, re, mi, fa, sol

10.

Prior to the invention of music notation, how did musicians have to learn music?

a)

They had to copy others and learn it by ear.

b)

They had to go the music store to buy music.

11.

Who created the first system for writing music?

a)

Musicians who were tired of memorizing music

b)

No one knows

c)

Guido d'Arezzo

12.

Where are music notes written on the staff?

a)

on the beats

b)

on the lines or in the spaces between the lines

c)

wherever they fit best

13.

The higher a note is written on the staff, the higher its pitch will sound.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

What does the key signature tell us?

a)

the sharps and flats you play throughout the music

b)

they are guids to keep track of the beats

15.

What does the top number of a time signature tell us?

a)

what kind of note gets the beat

b)

how many beats are in each measure

16.

What does the bottom number of a time signature tell us?

a)

what kind of note gets the beat

b)

how many beats are in each measure

17.

What is learning to read music kind of like?

a)

learning to walk

b)

learning a language

c)

learning to ride a bike