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Music Vocab

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is timbre?

a)

The tone and height of sound

b)

The theoretical analysis of music

c)

The color and resonance of sound

d)

Something you yell when a tree falls

2.

What is an attribute of the study of music?

a)

It is multidisciplinary

b)

It is primarily subjective in nature

c)

It is very narrow in scope

d)

It is only for the elite

3.

What is pitch?

a)

To throw a baseball

b)

How high or low a note sounds, determined by the sound wave's frequency.

c)

The direction music goes, and direction drives structure

d)

How high or low an instrument can play sounds

4.

What are dynamics?

a)

The call and response between musicians in orchestras and ensembles

b)

Stylistic choices musicians make that depend on the context & genre

c)

The texture of all on stage or in a recording

d)

The volume level in music, and how it connects to the overall mood of the piece

5.

What does architectonic analysis refer to?

a)

The structure and form of a musical work

b)

The buildings and chapels where 18th century music was compose in Italy

c)

The way sounds fluctuate the way stairs in a building go up and down

d)

The levels of music and rounds in a song

6.

What are the two basic directions of dynamic change?

a)

Crescendo

b)

Rubato

c)

Portamento

d)

Decrescendo

7.

What is register?

a)

Something you put money into

b)

The range in pitch of an instrument, voice, or musical passage

c)

The highest pitch reached in a musical passage

d)

The way music transitions between sections

8.

What is a motif?

a)

A red herring

b)

A recurring figure or phrase in music that is meaningful to the overall piece's structure

c)

A random group of notes that a composer really likes to use repeatedly

9.

What is a cadence?

a)

a musical arrival that punctuates a phrase, sometimes is climactic in nature

b)

a musical destination that uses color and tempo to end a song

c)

akin to a sentence of music in the context of a full story

d)

a change in volume level

10.

What is a phrase?

a)

a single note that leads to other sections of music

b)

a complete musical idea that serves as a building block for an entire piece of music

c)

something you say in English

d)

some lyrics that are part of a stanza