Year 9 GCSE Vocal Music

Question 1

Which musical element is strophic referred in?

Accepted Answer

Structure

Question 2

Which genre of vocal music is this particular piece?

Accepted Answer

Lieder

Question 3

Which vocal techniques are used by the Queen of the Night when she sings 'ah ah ah'?

Accepted Answer

Vibrato, Coloratura

Question 4

Which of the opera styles featured a mixture of coming and serious characters?

Accepted Answer

Opera Buffa

Question 5

What does the term 'lied' mean?

Accepted Answer

Song

Question 6

Which texture is significant in the lieder?

Accepted Answer

Homophonic

Question 7

Bach, Handel and Vivaldi were famous composers from which period?

Accepted Answer

Baroque

Question 8

What is the italian term for adding colour to the voice?

Accepted Answer

Coloratura

Question 9

Which type of structure started to develop in popular music from around the late 1960s

Accepted Answer

Verse-Chorus

Question 10

What is the name of the musical work that features characters which sing and act out the story?

Accepted Answer

Opera

Question 11

Which of these terms describe when the word setting features one note per syllable?

Accepted Answer

Melismatic

Question 12

Which period of music history is this piece?

Accepted Answer

Baroque

Question 13

Which of these composers was famous for composing lieder?

Accepted Answer

Schubert, Brahms

Question 14

When he sings 'ah', identify the use of word setting?

Accepted Answer

Melismatic

Question 15

Which of these are favourite topics used in the stanzas by Romantic era composers

Accepted Answer

Nationalism, Folk and Mythical Tales

Question 16

Which texture started to become prominent in the classical era?

Accepted Answer

Melody-Dominated Homphony

Question 17

Features of the Romantic Period?

Accepted Answer

Piano as the main accompanying instrument for vocal music., Chromatic harmonies used

Question 18

On the word 'decline', what vocal technique is used?

Accepted Answer

Falsetto

Question 19

An oratorio is...

Accepted Answer

a large vocal work that features songs from bible text

Question 20

Which genre would widly be used as the main focus in lieder?

Accepted Answer

Folk and Legends

Question 21

What is the purpose of a chorus?

Accepted Answer

To sum up the action

Question 22

Which of these terms describe a solo song?

Accepted Answer

Aria

Question 23

Multiple parts played at the same time can be described as being...

Accepted Answer

Polyphonic

Question 24

The harpsichord was popular in which muscial period?

Accepted Answer

Baroque

Question 25

Which of these songs feature minimal accompaniment and are sung in the natural rhythm of speech

Accepted Answer

Recitative

Question 26

What does the term strophic mean?

Accepted Answer

Each stanza features the same melody

Question 27

Which key term best describes the texture of this song?

Accepted Answer

Homophonic

Question 28

Chromaticism means....

Accepted Answer

Notes that not found in the key (tonal centre)

Year 9 GCSE Vocal Music

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Year 9 GCSE Vocal Music

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