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USAP 2021 Music

Total questions: 8

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The broadest definition of music is: "sound organized in time"

a)

True

b)

False

2.

What is required to make music? (Multi-Choice)

a)

Time frame

b)

Performers to create the sound

c)

Composer who first imagines the music

d)

Sound waves

e)

A mind to interpret and perceive the sounds

3.

A sound wave have _________ and ________. (Put ONE space between the two answers)

(a)  

4.

Which one is INCORRECT?

a)

There are two kinds of music sounds: pitched & non-pitched.

b)

The categories of music instruments created by the two ethnomusicologists were Chordophones, Aerophones, Membranephones, Idiophones, and Electrophones

c)

Amplitude of a sound wave affects the decibel level --- how loud or soft the tone is

d)

The categories of music instruments made by Curt Sachs and Eric von Hornbostel appeared in the late nineteenth century

5.

Which definition of musical concept is INCORRECT?

a)

Improvisation is when composition and performance happen simultaneously

b)

Pitch is the highness or lowness of the sound.

c)

musique concrète is when live instrumental music is recorded on tape, and the tape music would be edited, manipulated and recombined electronically to form sound collages

d)

semitone is the distance between every other key

6.

"A pitch" is________.

a)

The same as pitch.

b)

steady single tone whose highness/lowness does not change

c)

Same as harmonic.

7.

Which cities were famous centers for electronic music after World War II? (select all that apply)

a)

Paris

b)

Chicago

c)

New York City

d)

Cologne

e)

Rome

8.

Which is INCORRECT?

a)

# is (flat), meaning a given pitch has been raised by a half step

b)

Octave is: The distance between A and the next higher/lower A

c)

Harmonic is when two pitches occur simultaneously, Melodic is when two pitches occurs one after the other

d)

A scale is a sequence of pitches in either ascending or descending order.

e)

The name of 11 half steps is: Major seventh. Diminished fifth/tritone is 6 half steps.