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7th Grade Unit 1 Quiz

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the basic unit of time that keeps music performances together?

a)

Beat

b)

Sound

c)

Glue

d)

Seconds

2.

When you clap, snap, or stomp to a beat, what are you feeling that follows the music?

a)

Steady Beat

b)

Air

c)

Form

d)

Half Notes

3.

What do you call a note that is worth one sound and one beat?

a)

Quarter Note

b)

Half Note

c)

Half Rest

d)

Drums

4.

Which symbol represents a quarter rest?

a)

b)

c)

d)

5.

What is the name of this symbol above the quarter note?

a)

Accent

b)

Decrescendo

c)

Pause

d)

Repeat

6.

When you see these signs in a section of a song, what does a perform need to do with the section between?

a)

Repeat

b)

Rest

c)

End the Song

d)

Change the speed

7.

Who is this famous drummer from the band Genesis?

a)

Phil Collins

b)

Ozzy Osborne

c)

Carter Buford

d)

Buddy Rich

8.

What band did Simon Phillips play in?

a)

Toto

b)

Africa

c)

Metallica

d)

Maroon 5

9.

How many eighth notes can fit in the same space and time as a quarter note?

a)

22

b)

2

c)

3

d)

4

10.

How many beats is a whole rest worth in a measure of 4/4 meter?

a)

0

b)

4

c)

8

d)

2

11.

Who is this famous Cuban and Hispanic female singer?

a)

Gloria Estefan

b)

Whitney Houston

c)

Dolly Parton

d)

Shakira

12.

What is the order of the letters when describing a song in ternary form?

(a)  

13.

What element of music is used to show unity or variety in a song?

a)

Form

b)

Dynamics

c)

Tempo

d)

Pitch

14.

Which Broadway musical is about the French Revolution?

a)

1492

b)

Les Miserables

c)

Avenue Q

d)

Chicago

15.

Which Broadway show was about a man secretly in love with a singer in an opera house?

a)

Stranger Things

b)

Ragtime

c)

The Phantom of the Opera

d)

A Chorus Line

16.

How many beats are in a measure in a song in duple meter?

a)

2

b)

4

c)

6

d)

8

17.

How many beats are in a measure in a song in triple meter?

a)

3

b)

6

c)

9

d)

12

18.

What is the name of the space between two bar lines called?

a)

A measure

b)

A staff

c)

A rest

d)

A note

19.

What is used to separate measures in music?

a)

Notes

b)

Pencils

c)

Bars

d)

Instruments

20.

Dynamics are the range of which of these elements of music?

a)

Speed

b)

Volume

c)

Pitch

d)

Voices

21.

Which dynamic level equals loud?

a)

Forte

b)

Piano

c)

Mezzo Piano

d)

Fortissimo

22.

What is the thickness and thinness of music?

a)

Form

b)

Texture

c)

Style

d)

Rests

23.

When two or more voices sing together the same melody, what is this called?

a)

Unison

b)

Harmony

c)

A round

d)

Caroling

24.

Polyphonic is which of these examples?

a)

b)

c)

d)

25.

What is the term to describe a person's unique quality of their voice?

a)

Tone Color

b)

Singing

c)

Speaking

d)

Vocal Chords

26.

What voice type has the highest register?

a)

Soprano

b)

Alto

c)

Tenor

d)

Bass

27.

Which family of instruments are played by buzzing or humming lips on a mouthpiece?

a)

Brass

b)

Strings

c)

Woodwinds

d)

Percussion

28.

Which family of instruments are played by plucking, strumming, or bowing?

a)

Brass

b)

Strings

c)

Woodwinds

d)

Percussion

29.

Which family of instruments are played by blowing through mouthpiece sometimes with a reed?

a)

Woodwinds

b)

Brass

c)

Percussion

d)

Strings

30.

Which family of instruments are played by striking, shaking, or scratching?

a)

Percussion

b)

String

c)

Brass

d)

Woodwind

31.

Who was the famous Russian composer that used ternary form in his orchestral songs?

a)

Korsakov

b)

Coverkov

c)

Havakov

d)

Turnankov

32.

How many beats are in a half note?

a)

2

b)

4

c)

6

d)

8

33.

How many sounds are in a half rest?

a)

0

b)

2

c)

4

d)

6

34.

When discussing range on a staff with the notes G A C, this is a range of what?

a)

Instruments

b)

Pitches

c)

Dynamics

d)

Endings

35.

A tone ladder shows the visual example of what element of music?

a)

Pitches

b)

Dynamics

c)

Form

d)

Style

36.

How many pitches are in a major scale?

a)

10

b)

2

c)

8

d)

9

37.

What is the first and last syllable in solfège scales?

a)

Do

b)

Ti

c)

Re

d)

Mi

38.

An interval is the distance between two what?

a)

Dynamics

b)

Tempos

c)

Pitches

d)

People

39.

An interval with no space between two notes that move up or down is what?

a)

Stepwise

b)

Skipwise

c)

Repeat

d)

Nothing

40.

Skipwise in when two pitches have what between them?

a)

No space

b)

Space

c)

Repeated

d)

Nothing