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WorksheetsYear 8 Music Baseline Assessment
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 17mins
What is RHYTHM?
Taps on a drum
A pattern of short and long sounds and silences
A sound an instrument makes
A piano term
What is PULSE?
A steady regular beat
A sort of sound
A type of song
A pattern of short and long sounds and silences
What is the repeated part of a song called (the bit that everyone sings along to)?
Verse
Introduction
Chorus
Outro
What are Dynamics?
How loudly or softly a piece should be played
How fast the piece goes
How you are supposed to move to the music
How much time you have left on the music
What is an OSTINATO?
A steady regular beat
A special type of music
A type of tomato
A repeated pattern
What do you think CALL AND RESPONSE might mean?
A caller sings something and everyone ignores them and does their own thing
A caller sings or plays a short phrase and the rest answer
A caller plays something and the audience listens
The group plays something and the caller answers
What music do you listen to? No wrong answers here!
How many instruments can you list?
What is TEMPO?
How strong or weak to play or sing
How loud and soft to play or sing
How high or low to play or sing
How fast or slow the music goes
What is PITCH?
How high or low to play or sing
How fast or slow to play or sing
How loud and soft to play and sing
How to throw a ball
What is Timbre?
How an instrument or note sounds
What you shout when a tree falls
A type of drum
A note on a piano
What is this type of note called?
A crotchet
A minim
A semibreve
A quaver
What is this type of note called?
quaver
minim
crotchet
semibreve
These are all examples of
(a)
What is this an example of
chord
triad
notes
a swirly thing with some round things
This is another way to write chords. What instrument are they written this way for?
(a)
What is STRUCTURE in music?
Tall buildings where music is played
How you build up a new song
What key the music is in
How a piece of music is put together
List the instruments you know which would be in a rock or pop band
(a)
What instruments might you find in an orchestra?
What is your favourite song to sing when no one is listening?
