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GCSE OCR Melody knowledge organiser quiz

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does pitch mean?

a)

The height of the note

b)

How high or low the note is

c)

The depth of the note

d)

The distance between the notes

2.

What is an interval

a)

The distance between two notes

b)

How high a note is

c)

The difference between the two keys

d)

How low a note is

3.

What is a motif?

a)

A small, loud chord

b)

A repeated pattern of notes

c)

A long sustained note

d)

A fragment of a melody

4.

If you repeat a melodic idea, but start it on a different note it is a . . .

(a)  

5.

What does the 'range' of a melody mean?

a)

How high an instrument can play

b)

The distance between the highest note and the lowest note

c)

How low an instrument can play

d)

All of the above

6.

What is a 'hook/riff'?

a)

Music to catch fish to

b)

A long, ornamented pattern

c)

A short, memorable melodic idea

d)

Music to accompany the melody

7.

When you have a constant repetitive musical idea it is known as

(a)  

8.

Describe the melody of the lower stave . . .

a)

Scalic

b)

Complicated

c)

Canon

d)

Countermelody

9.

Pick the best description of a 'phrase'.

a)

A longer musical idea, that is constructed into musical sentences

b)

A long a winding idea that seems to have no end

c)

A repeated pattern that moves in step

d)

Lots of short, fragmented, musical notes

10.

What is a scale/mode?

a)

A short pattern of notes

b)

Something you play on the guitar to show how good you are

c)

When you press all the white notes on the piano

d)

A group of notes that a melody is based on

11.

Movement between notes that are next to each other in the scale is called

(a)  

12.

Movement equal to two notes is known as

(a)  

13.

If you repeat a melodic idea in another instrument it is known as

(a)  

14.

If you turn the melodic idea upside down it is known as . . .

(a)  

15.

If you play a melody idea backwards it is known as

(a)  

16.

If you change a melodic idea slightly it is known as

(a)  

17.

Constant repetition of a melodic idea is known as a

(a)  

18.

Any movement between notes in a melody that is further than a 'skip' is known as a

(a)  

19.

If a melody uses notes that are not of the key, it is often described as

(a)  

20.

When the notes of a melody move along in scale order, it is known as

(a)