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Music Appreciation Part 1 Review
Music Appreciation Part 1 Review
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Divided into three 4-bar segments using a specific set of chord progressions.
Verse-Chorus Form
Twelve Bar Blues Form
Strophic Form
Song Form
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What is polyphonic texture?
Different versions of the same melody happening at the same time.
One melody plus harmony
One melody
More than one melody happening at the same time
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What are aesthetics?
Pitches heard simultaneously in ways that produce chords.
The study of the emotional and expressive aspects of music.
The use of written on printed symbols to represent musical sounds.
The science of sounds and the physical basis of music.
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What is improvisation?
A style of music that avoids explicit statement and literal description
The compositional technique of creating polyphonic texture
Writing down musical notation.
The process of simultaneously composing, performing, and listening to music
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What is resolution?
Relative stability
A perception of instability
The tendency in some music to have momentum
A return to consonance or tonic
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What is pulse?
The recurring beat of the music
A meaningful combination of three or more pitches
The organization of rhythm in a pattern of strong and weak beats
The rate of speed at which music is performed
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Music that does not ramble and is cohesive.
Unity
Repetition
Contrast
Variety
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What is duration?
The length of time a note sounds.
The degree of intensity or energy producing a sound.
The highness or lowness of a tone produced by a single frequency?
The characteristic quality of the sound of a voice or instrument.
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To change from one key to another.
Consonance
Modulation
Instability
Dissonance
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What is a chord?
The recurring beat of the music
The organization of rhythm in a pattern of strong and weak beats
The rate of speed at which music is performed
A meaningful combination of three or more pitches
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What is a downbeat?
The first beat of each measure
The level of loudness
The occurrence of emphasis in unexpected places.
An emphasis on a particular note.
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Another name for an active, unstable sound.
Consonance
Modulation
Dissonance
Instability
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What is the lowest pitch to the highest pitch called?
Range
Texture
Form
Register
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What is homophonic texture?
One melody plus harmony
Different versions of the same melody happening at the same time.
More than one melody happening at the same time
One melody
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Music that has no pulse is known as?
Triple Meter
Mixed Meter
Duple Meter
Nonmetric
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Music that departs from previously stated themes.
Unity
Repetition
Variety
Contrast
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When strong and weak beats occur in different patterns it is known as?
Mixed Meter
Duple Meter
Nonmetric
Triple Meter
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What is white noise?
The absence of frequencies
The entire range of frequencies sounding at once
An extremely loud sound
A really low frequency
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What is tempo?
The recurring beat of the music
The organization of rhythm in a pattern of strong and weak beats
The rate of speed at which music is performed
A meaningful combination of three or more pitches
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The same phrase repeated with little to no change.
Song Form
Twelve Bar Blues Form
Verse-Chorus Form
Strophic Form
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What is timbre?
The degree of intensity or energy producing a sound.
The length of time a note sounds.
The highness or lowness of a tone produced by a single frequency?
The characteristic quality of the sound of a voice or instrument.
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What is an ascending or descending series of tones organized according to a specified pattern of intervals called?
Contour
Scale
Tonality
Theme
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Different texts for every other phrase with a return to the main phrase between.
Verse-Chorus Form
Song Form
Strophic Form
Twelve Bar Blues Form
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What is silence?
The absence of frequencies
An extremely loud sound
The entire range of frequencies sounding at once
A really low frequency
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What Soprano, Alto, Tenor, and Bass examples of?
Form
Texture
Register
Range
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What is Sandi thinking?
6\div2(1+2)=9
It's time to go to the pot.
Do fish get thirsty?
Mr. Brooks is pretty much the coolest ever.
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What are dynamics?
The level of loudness
The occurrence of emphasis in unexpected places.
An emphasis on a particular note.
The first beat of each measure
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What is forward energy?
The tendency in some music to have momentum
Relative stability
A perception of instability
A return to consonance or tonic
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What is meter?
A meaningful combination of three or more pitches
The rate of speed at which music is performed
The recurring beat of the music
The organization of rhythm in a pattern of strong and weak beats
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What is an ethnomusicologist?
A scholar of music in culture
A scholar of musical genres
Someone who writes world music
A scholar of music in history
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Beats grouped in threes are known as?
Nonmetric
Mixed Meter
Duple Meter
Triple Meter
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What is monophonic texture?
One melody
More than one melody happening at the same time
Different versions of the same melody happening at the same time.
One melody plus harmony
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Four phrases with the third phrase in contrast to the first two.
Verse-Chorus Form
Twelve Bar Blues Form
Strophic Form
Song Form
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What is syncopation?
The level of loudness
The first beat of each measure
The occurrence of emphasis in unexpected places.
An emphasis on a particular note.
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What is another name for the shape or structure of a piece of music?
Range
Texture
Form
Register
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What is tension?
A return to consonance or tonic
The tendency in some music to have momentum
A perception of instability
Relative stability
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What is the shape of a melody called?
Contour
Theme
Scale
Tonality
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A return to previously stated material.
Repetition
Unity
Variety
Contrast
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What is the gravitational pull of music toward a tonal center called?
Contour
Theme
Scale
Tonality
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Suggests the need for release of tension or resolution.
Dissonance
Instability
Consonance
Modulation
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To copy copyrighted property without permission or without paying a legal fee is called...
Copycatting
Piracy
Stealing
Bootlegging
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Beats grouped in twos are known as?
Triple Meter
Nonmetric
Duple Meter
Mixed Meter
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What is a short melody or phrase that has a sense of completeness called?
Contour
Theme
Scale
Tonality
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What is an accent?
The first beat of each measure
The level of loudness
An emphasis on a particular note.
The occurrence of emphasis in unexpected places.
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Listening to music attentively in an attempt to understand the musical process and structure is called...
Passive listening
Agressive listening
Analytical listening
Perceptive listening
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What is loudness?
The degree of intensity or energy producing a sound.
The length of time a note sounds.
The highness or lowness of a tone produced by a single frequency?
The characteristic quality of the sound of a voice or instrument.
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What is pitch?
The degree of intensity or energy producing a sound.
The length of time a note sounds.
The characteristic quality of the sound of a voice or instrument.
The highness or lowness of a tone produced by a single frequency?
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Another name for a relatively stable, comfortable sound.
Instability
Modulation
Dissonance
Consonance
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The use of written or printed symbols to represent musical sounds is known as...
Rhythms
Aesthetics
Notation
Harmony
