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What's an 'arpeggio'?
What does 'lento' mean?
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What does 'lento' mean?
fast, energetic
moderate, walking
slow, relaxed
gradually increasing in speed
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What's an 'arpeggio'?
slow down
speed up
notes of a chord played in succession
jump from 1 note to another
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What are some defining characteristics of jazz music?
originated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
wide instrumentation
from New Orleans
African-American origins
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What does 'pianissimo' mean?
play loudly
play softly
play shortly
play longly
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What distinguishes classical music from other genres?
formal structures
love the use of electric guitars
digital audio manipulation
orchestral instrumentation
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What does 'prestissimo' mean?
really fast
fast
quickest tempo possible
slow
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Reggae music originated from the Appalachian region
True
False
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What's a similarity between country and bluegrass music?
uses acoustic instruments
slow tempo
both doesn't use vocals
country of origin
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'Andante' means moderate tempo
False
True
10
Rock and pop music are the same thing
True
False
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What does 'diminuendo' mean?
gradual decrease in tempo
gradual increase in volume
don't change the volume
gradual decrease in volume
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Reggae music originated in the late 1960s
False
True
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Opera is a form of musical theatre
True
False
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What does 'legato' mean?
detached
roughly connected
nothing, play normally
smoothly connected
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'Vivace' means slow and mellow
False
True
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What does 'crescendo' mean?
gradual decrease in tempo
gradual increase in volume
gradual increase in tempo
gradual decrease in volume
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What does 'larghissimo' mean?
gradual increase in tempo
gradual decrease in tempo
extremely fast tempo
extremely slow tempo
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What does 'grave' mean?
something everyone's gonna end up in
"-danger"
very quiet
very slow
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What does 'ostinato' mean?
food
play once and never again
motif
a breed of otters
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What's a genre?
patterns of sound
categories of math
quality of colour of musical sound
categories of music
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What does "adagio" mean?
fast but expressive
fast and loud
slow but loud
slow and expressive
