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Year 8 Music Baseline Assessment

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is RHYTHM?

a)

Taps on a drum

b)

A pattern of short and long sounds and silences

c)

A sound an instrument makes

d)

A piano term

2.

What is PULSE?

a)

A steady regular beat

b)

A sort of sound

c)

A type of song

d)

A pattern of short and long sounds and silences

3.

What is the repeated part of a song called (the bit that everyone sings along to)?

a)

Verse

b)

Introduction

c)

Chorus

d)

Outro

4.

What are Dynamics?

a)

How loudly or softly a piece should be played

b)

How fast the piece goes

c)

How you are supposed to move to the music

d)

How much time you have left on the music

5.

What is an OSTINATO?

a)

A steady regular beat

b)

A special type of music

c)

A type of tomato

d)

A repeated pattern

6.

What do you think CALL AND RESPONSE might mean?

a)

A caller sings something and everyone ignores them and does their own thing

b)

A caller sings or plays a short phrase and the rest answer

c)

A caller plays something and the audience listens

d)

The group plays something and the caller answers

7.

What music do you listen to? No wrong answers here!

4 lines
8.

How many instruments can you list?

4 lines
9.

What is TEMPO?

a)

How strong or weak to play or sing

b)

How loud and soft to play or sing

c)

How high or low to play or sing

d)

How fast or slow the music goes

10.

What is PITCH?

a)

How high or low to play or sing

b)

How fast or slow to play or sing

c)

How loud and soft to play and sing

d)

How to throw a ball

11.

What is Timbre?

a)

How an instrument or note sounds

b)

What you shout when a tree falls

c)

A type of drum

d)

A note on a piano

12.

What is this type of note called?

a)

A crotchet

b)

A minim

c)

A semibreve

d)

A quaver

13.

What is this type of note called?

a)

quaver

b)

minim

c)

crotchet

d)

semibreve

14.

These are all examples of

(a)  

15.

What is this an example of

a)

chord

b)

triad

c)

notes

d)

a swirly thing with some round things

16.

This is another way to write chords. What instrument are they written this way for?

(a)  

17.

What is STRUCTURE in music?

a)

Tall buildings where music is played

b)

How you build up a new song

c)

What key the music is in

d)

How a piece of music is put together

18.

List the instruments you know which would be in a rock or pop band

(a)  

19.

What instruments might you find in an orchestra?

4 lines
20.

What is your favourite song to sing when no one is listening?

4 lines