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Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Which instrument is NOT a transposing instrument?
Clarinet
Trumpet
Flute
Alto saxophone
The harpsichord was most commonly used in which musical era?
Romantic
Baroque
Classical
Modern
What is the primary difference between a viola and a violin?
Viola has four strings, violin has five
Viola is smaller and plays higher notes
Viola is larger and has a lower pitch
Violas are only used in folk music
The contrabassoon plays in which musical range?
Soprano
Alto
Tenor
Bass
The celesta is often mistaken for which instrument?
Harp
Glockenspiel
Xylophone
Piano
Which of these composers wrote no symphonies?
Chopin
Beethoven
Brahms
Mahler
What unusual feature is found in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9?
It was written for only string instruments
It includes vocal soloists and a choir
It has no conductor markings
It uses electronic instruments.
Which of these composers was a child prodigy and toured Europe as a performer at the age of six?
Schubert
Mozart
Wagner
Rachmaninoff
The “Rite of Spring” by Stravinsky caused controversy when it premiered in 1913. Why?
It used non-traditional tuning
The rhythm and choreography shocked audiences
It had no melody
It featured only percussion instruments
J.S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier was composed to demonstrate what?
How to play in all 24 keys
The limits of the harpsichord
Early jazz harmonies
The technique of piano duets
Gamelan music is a traditional ensemble from which country?
India
Indonesia
Turkey
Egypt
The 12-tone technique in music composition was developed by whom?
Claude Debussy
Arnold Schoenberg
Igor Stravinsky
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Which of these is NOT characteristic of Baroque music?
Ornamentation
Harpsichord continuo
Terraced dynamics
Free, unstructured form
Ragtime music, which influenced jazz, was popularized by which composer?
LLouis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
Scott Joplin
George Gershwin
The kora, a 21-stringed African instrument, is primarily used in the music of which region?
East Africa
West Africa
Southern Africa
North Africa
A perfect fifth interval consists of how many half steps?
6
7
8
9
In musical notation, what does fermata mean?
Play softly
Hold a note longer than its written value
Gradually get faster
Repeat the section.
Atonal music is music that:
Uses all 12 notes of the chromatic scale equally
Lacks a key center
Is only played on percussion instruments
Follows a strict classical structure
What is a hemiola in rhythm?
A note held for two full measures.
A shift between duple and triple meter
A tempo twice as fast as the original
A silence in the middle of a measure
In an orchestra, the concertmaster is the leader of which section?
Brass
Woodwinds
Strings
Percussion
