Free Printable General Music Final Exam

1.

What does the top number in a time signature mean?

a)

How many beats are in a measure

b)

What note gets the beat

c)

How many notes to write

d)

The number of parts in a song

2.

What does the bottom number in a time signature mean?

a)

What note gets the beat

b)

How many beats are in a measure

c)

How many notes to write

d)

The number of parts in the song

3.

What is the Staff?

a)

The 5 lines and 4 spaces we write music on

b)

a stick used to walk

c)

someone who works in a school

4.

What note is this?

a)

E

b)

A

c)

C

d)

F

5.

What note is this?

a)

E

b)

A

c)

C

d)

F

6.

What note is this?

a)

E

b)

D

c)

C

d)

F

7.

What note is this?

a)

E

b)

D

c)

C

d)

F

8.

What note is this?

a)

G

b)

D

c)

B

d)

A

9.

What note is this?

a)

G

b)

A

c)

C

d)

F

10.

What note is this

a)

G

b)

D

c)

B

d)

F

11.

What note is this?

a)

E

b)

A

c)

C

d)

F

12.

What note is this?

a)

E

b)

D

c)

B

d)

F

13.

What is this note called?

a)

Quarter Note

b)

Half Note

c)

Whole Note

d)

Eighth Note

14.

What is this note called?

a)

Quarter Note

b)

Half Note

c)

Whole Note

d)

Eighth Note

15.

What is this note called?

a)

Quarter Note

b)

Half Note

c)

Whole Note

d)

Eighth Note

16.

How many beats is this note worth?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

4

d)

3

17.

How many beats is this note worth?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

4

d)

3

18.

How many beats is this note worth?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

4

d)

3

19.

What is this rest called?

a)

Quarter rest

b)

Half rest

c)

Whole rest

d)

Eighth rest

20.

What is this rest called?

a)

Quarter rest

b)

Half rest

c)

Whole rest

d)

Eighth rest

21.

What is this rest called?

a)

Quarter rest

b)

Half rest

c)

Whole rest

d)

Eighth rest

22.

How many beats is this rest worth?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

4

d)

3

23.

How many beats is this rest worth?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

4

d)

3

24.

How many beats is this rest worth?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

4

d)

3

25.

Complete the measure of 4/4 with 1 note.

a)

Quarter note

b)

Half note

c)

Whole note

26.

Complete the measure of 4/4 with 1 rest.

a)

Quarter rest

b)

Half rest

c)

Whole rest

27.

Complete the measure of 4/4 with 1 rest.

a)

Quarter rest

b)

Half rest

c)

Whole rest

28.

What is a ledger line?

a)

A line written above or below the staff

b)

A line written in an accounting book

29.

What is this note called?

a)

Quarter Note

b)

Half Note

c)

Whole Note

d)

Eighth Note

30.

How many beats is this note worth?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

4

d)

1/2

31.

What note is this?

a)

E

b)

A

c)

C

d)

F

32.

What note is this?

a)

E

b)

D

c)

B

d)

F

33.

What note is this?

a)

E

b)

G

c)

B

d)

F

34.

What note is this?

a)

E

b)

A

c)

C

d)

F

35.

What is a Half Step?

a)

The smallest distance between two notes

b)

The distance between Do and Re

c)

The steps on a solfege ladder

d)

Half of the scale

36.

What does a sharp do to the note it proceeds?

a)

raises the note a half step

b)

lowers the note a half step

c)

keeps the note neutral

37.

What does a flat do to the note it proceeds?

a)

raises the note a half step

b)

lowers the note a half step

c)

keeps the note neutral

38.

What does a natural do to the note it proceeds?

a)

raises the note a half step

b)

lowers the note a half step

c)

keeps the note neutral

39.

What are the Letter names for the lines of the treble clef?

a)

EGBDF

b)

FACE

c)

GBDFA

d)

ACEG

40.

What are the Letter names for the lines of the bass clef?

a)

EGBDF

b)

FACE

c)

GBDFA

d)

ACEG

41.

What are the letter names for the spaces of the treble clef?

a)

EGBDF

b)

FACE

c)

GBDFA

d)

ACEG

42.

What are the Letter names for the spaces of the bass clef?

a)

EGBDF

b)

FACE

c)

GBDFA

d)

ACEG

43.

What key is this

a)

G

b)

Eb

c)

E

d)

Cb

44.

What key is this

a)

G

b)

Eb

c)

E

d)

Cb

45.

What key is this

a)

G

b)

Eb

c)

E

d)

Cb

46.

What key is this

a)

G

b)

Eb

c)

E

d)

Cb

47.

What is this interval?

a)

3rd

b)

4th

c)

5th

d)

6th

48.

What is this interval?

a)

3rd

b)

4th

c)

5th

d)

6th

49.

On the Voyager ships were two ^______ which contained pictures, a greeting in 51 languages, and music.

a)

SD Cards

b)

Essays

c)

Phonograph Records

d)

Flash Drives

50.

True or False: The 27 songs on the voyager ships were chosen to represent humanity as a whole.

(a)

51.

What is Call-and-Response

a)

A song which sounds like a phone ringing

b)

Question-and-answer form

c)

A musical form only for children

d)

A dance game where one person dances and another tries to do the same thing.

52.

Studies have shown that, as you grow older, your musical tastes (stay the same/change) from adolescence.

(a)

53.

Almost all of our rhythmic system is based on

a)

West African Rhythms

b)

North African Rhythms

c)

South Africans Rhythm

d)

East African Rhythms.

54.

What is the mood of the music

a)

How it makes you feel

b)

How they wrote the song

c)

The type of music

d)

Who wrote the song

55.

What is musical texture

a)

If it sounds good or not

b)

How many instruments there are

c)

How different parts play together

d)

The type of music

56.

_______ is the customs, beliefs, language, arts, and institutions of a specific people.

a)

Customs

b)

Culture

c)

Religion

d)

Ideals

57.

When the Culture of a people influences music, we call it

a)

Music Culture

b)

A concert

c)

Popular Music

d)

An Ipad

58.

what is the word for the way the beats and pulses are organized and subdivided?

a)

Timbre

b)

Melody

c)

Rhythm

d)

Pitch

59.

what is the word for the distinct tonal quality of an instrument or voice?

a)

Timbre

b)

Melody

c)

Rhythm

d)

Pitch

60.

what is the word for the highness or lowness of the sound.

a)

Timbre

b)

Melody

c)

Rhythm

d)

Pitch

61.

What are the three Archtypes of music?

a)

Popular

b)

Fun

c)

Traditional

d)

Classical

62.

Who was the person who created Motown Records?

a)

Barry Allen

b)

Jim Gordon

c)

Barry Gordy Jr

63.

The Classical Period advanced because of the emerging ______.

a)

Lower Class

b)

Upper Class

c)

Middle Class

64.

The most prevalent classical music tradition in the world developed in .

a)

West Africa

b)

Western Europe

c)

East Aisa

d)

North America

65.

The first three musical eras in Western Classical Music are . (Choose 3)

a)

Renaissance

b)

Classical

c)

Baroque

d)

Medieval

66.

Classical Music in ancient Greece and Rome were called " "

a)

Art Music

b)

Class Music

c)

Court Music

d)

New Music

67.

The earliest surviving western classical music comes form the medieval period, called .

a)

Plainsong

b)

Arias

c)

Recitative

d)

Art Song

68.

The Medieval period was also responsible for creating a system of syllables representing musical pitches called .

a)

Melody

b)

Rhythms

c)

Pitch

d)

Solfege

69.

"Renaissance" literally means .

a)

Rebirth

b)

Reconnect

c)

Recollect

d)

Reminisce

70.

During the Renaissance, music not associated with the church, also called , flourished.

a)

Liturgical

b)

Sacred

c)

Secular

d)

Popular

71.

During the renaissance period, many composers used a composition technique called .

a)

Fugues

b)

Word Painting

c)

Impressionist Painting

d)

Terraced Dynamics

72.

One major development in the Baroque Style was .

a)

Word Painting

b)

Secular Music

c)

Plainsong

d)

Terraced Dynamics

73.

The use of Basso Continuo set the stage for .

a)

Opera

b)

Painting

c)

Theatre

d)

Ballet

74.

During the Baroque period, Composers began writing rich, polyphonic works called .

a)

Fugues

b)

Canons

c)

Sonatas

d)

Sonotinas

75.

The Classical period of western classical music followed what musical era?

a)

Baroque

b)

Medieval

c)

Renaissance

d)

Romantic

76.

During the Classical period, many traditional musical practices were ___________.

a)

Codified

b)

broken

c)

misunderstood

d)

changed

77.

In the Classical Period, emotion was ________ than the form of the music.

a)

less important

b)

more important

c)

equal

78.

Sonatas became standardized with _______ movements.

a)

3

b)

1

c)

2

d)

4

79.

During the Romantic Period, music became especially ___________.

a)

emotional

b)

rigid

c)

sad

d)

boring

80.

A popular form of music in the romantic period was the ________.

a)

Art song

b)

Sonata

c)

Motet

d)

Madrigal

81.

Towards the end of the romantic period, composers began to use their music as an expression of _________.

a)

Nationalism

b)

Joy

c)

Sadness

82.

The leading Impressionist composer was ______.

a)

Debussy

b)

Mozart

c)

Beethoven

d)

Bach

83.

Another art movement opposite of impressionism in the 20th century was ______.

a)

expressionism

b)

baroque

c)

Late Romanticism

d)

The Scream

84.

Expressionist Music often uses ________ to shock the audience into feeling emotion.

a)

dissonance

b)

consonance

c)

harmony

d)

melody

85.

The Spirit of Nationalism that infused much of the music of the _________ period carried over into the twentieth Century.

a)

Romantic

b)

Baroque

c)

Classical

d)

Renaissance

86.

The forerunner of 12 tone music was ________

a)

Schoenberg

b)

Igor Stravinsky

c)

Mozart

d)

Beethoven

General Music Final Exam

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