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Grade 1 Music performance directions

Total questions: 31

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is meaning of accelerando?

a)

Fast

b)

Gradually getting slower

c)

Gradually getting faster

d)

Broadening

2.

What is the meaning of adagio?

a)

Slow

b)

Fast

c)

Very fast

d)

Moderate

3.

What is the meaning of allegretto?

a)

Quick

b)

Fairly quick

c)

Slow

d)

Fairly slow

4.

What is the meaning of allegro?

a)

Moderate

b)

Fairly quick

c)

Quick

d)

Slow

5.

what does andante means?

a)

Fast

b)

Slow

c)

At a medium walking speed

d)

getting faster

6.

What does cantabile means?

a)

Sweetly

b)

Graceful

c)

In a singing style

d)

Gradually getting louder

7.

Which of the following has the same meaning as decrescendo?

a)

accelerando

b)

Rallentando

c)

diminuendo

d)

Crescendo

8.

Which of the following has the opposite meaning to decrescendo?

a)

Crescendo

b)

Diminuendo

c)

accelerando

d)

Rallentando

9.

What is the meaning of dal segno (D.S)?

a)

Play the phrase twice

b)

Repeat the entire music again

c)

Repeat from the sign

d)

Repeat from the beginning

10.

da capo means repeat from the (a)   .

11.

what does fine means?

a)

The beginning

b)

The start

c)

The end

d)

The middle

12.

What does forte means?

a)

Loud

b)

Very loud

c)

Soft

d)

Very soft

13.

What does ff stands for?

a)

Forte

b)

Fortissimo

c)

Mezzo forte

d)

Fortississimo

14.

What does legato means?

a)

Slightly separated

b)

Smoothly

c)

Detached

d)

Sustained

15.

What does lento means?

a)

Moderately

b)

Very fast

c)

Slow

d)

Super slow

16.

What does mf means?

a)

Very loud

b)

Moderately loud

c)

Moderately soft

d)

Loud

17.

What does moderato means?

a)

Gradually

b)

Generally

c)

Moderately

d)

Fairly

18.

What does allegro moderato means?

a)

Moderately quick

b)

Moderately slow

c)

moderate tempo

d)

At a medium walking speed

19.

What does pp stands for?

a)

Piano

b)

Pianissimo

c)

Pianississimo

d)

Mezzo piano

20.

Which of the following has the same meaning as rallentando?

a)

Ritardando

b)

Ritenuto

c)

Accelerando

d)

Allargando

21.

What is the meaning of ritenuto?

a)

Held back

b)

Detached

c)

Sustained

d)

Separated

22.

What is the meaning of staccato?

a)

Smoothly

b)

Detached

c)

Held back

d)

Pause

23.

What does a tempo means?

a)

Strictly

b)

In

c)

Speed

d)

In time

24.

What does this sign means?

a)

Crescendo

b)

Decrescendo

c)

Diminuendo

d)

Allargando

25.

What does this sign means?

a)

Ritenuto

b)

Decrescendo

c)

Ritardando

d)

Crescendo

26.

What does this tell the performer to do?

a)

Play the notes short and detached

b)

Play and hold the notes for the value of 4 counts

c)

Perform the notes smoothly

d)

Play the notes slightly separated

27.

What does the dots over or under the notes means?

a)

Staccato

b)

Slur

c)

Sustained

d)

Accent

28.

What does the sign over or under the notes mean?

a)

Accent

b)

Staccato

c)

Held back

d)

Pause

29.

What does this sign means?

a)

Pause on the note

b)

Accent

c)

Staccato

d)

Play the note bouncy

30.

What does the sign over the notes mean?

a)

Perform the notes an octave lower

b)

Perform the notes an octave higher

c)

Perform the notes 2 octaves higher

d)

Perform the notes 2 octaves lower

31.

What does the tempo marking in the music mean?

a)

76 crotchet beats in a second

b)

76 crotchet beats in a bar

c)

76 crotchet beats in a minute

d)

76 minim beats in a minute