Acadeca Music Part 1

Which selection is the FIRST art song composed by an American?

An A-flat major key signature includes

Which two instruments are members of the brass family?

Which genre features a soloist alongside an orchestra?

An aria is MOST likely to be featured in a(n)

Which state was the second to abolish slavery?

On a piano, a whole step is the distance between

The experience of listening to music depends MOST on

Which keys have the same key signature?

Who died in “Springfield Mountain”?

Before 1950, improvisation based on repetition was most common in

How many verses are in “Die sanfte Bewegung, die liebliche Krafft”?

A field call allows the singer to

What is the minimum number of pitches needed to form a chord?

A broadside is similar to a modern

“Ho Way Hey Yo” opens with a

What is the longest musical symbol used in notation?

Which example BEST demonstrates syncopation?

Which practice did slave owners cite to argue enslaved peoples were happy?

Which term refers to the lowest note in a chord?

The wampum belt record-keeping system includes pieces made from

Musicians in the United States typically tune to

Which state was the FIRST to recognize Independence Day officially?

“Clef” comes from the French word for

The Haudenosaunee Confederation was FIRST established to

Which scale is MOST common in Western music?

Which term refers to music’s organization in time?

Who made the term “fugue” famous in Europe?

Which vocal part performs MOST comfortably at a high range?

Which of the following form elements is the LARGEST?

An a cappella song will NOT include

If a musician says that a song is “in the key of E,” they mean the

Which subject does “Die sanfte Bewegung, die liebliche Krafft” discuss?

Sonata cycles became prevalent in Western music around

The term diatonic means

A fermata indicates a performer should

The American Singing Book includes the tune

The term piano means

What was the minimum number of members an American orchestra needed to perform a European composition?

Which term describes two conflicting rhythmic patterns performed simultaneously?

Compared to a ballad, a news ballad will

Which of the following parts has the LOWEST range?

According to Native American traditions, the beat of a water drum reminds people to

Which song does Giles Gibbs, Jr.: His Book for the Fife include?

What is the key of “Lady Hope’s Reel”?

How does a musician play a theremin?

Where was the EARLIEST colonial concert hosted? a. Salem b. Boston c. Charleston d. Philadelphia e. New York City

Many Native American languages lack an exact word for

Which tempo indicator is the SLOWEST?

During the Shuffle Dance, dancers wear

How is the Haudenosaunee Confederacy similar to the United States Constitution?

Jean Calvin was a prominent theologian in

In the Revolutionary era, mounted cavalry often played

A scale with blues inflection will combine elements from

Work songs PRIMARILY rely on

Which dance generally appears in the section before the last movement of a four-movement sonata cycle?

Assume a C major scale. What is the dominant chord?

Which instrument is commonly used in Shuffle Dance music?

Which dynamic marking does the Violin I part play as the opening in the last movement of Quintet No. 6 in E-flat Major?

Regular Singing refers to

Singing school advocates believed these institutions would

The FIRST Blacks in the American colonies were brought to

During the Revolutionary era, a military band would MOST likely include a(n)

An instrument’s timbre is also known as its

Why did many people disparage Regular Singing?

What is the key of “Sherburne”?

Who composed “Ho Way Hey Yo”?

“Lady Hope Reel” was MOST likely performed to

The text in “My Days Have Been So Wondrous Free” comes from

Which quality makes a pitch sound unstable?

Which belief do MOST Native American tribes share?

Which fact BEST supports the idea that musical literacy in the American colonies decreased in the seventeenth century?

Who composed “Die sanfte Bewegung, die liebliche Krafft”?

A psalter is PRIMARILY a(n)

Which lyric does “Springfield Mountain” include?

Which selection is a jig tune?

Unlike psalms, hymns do NOT need

A scriptorium was intended to

The black keys on a piano are usually called

Which instrument is central to Anglican services?

Enslaved peoples were specifically valued if they played the

The Haudenosaunee name for themselves means

The Native American peoples that Europeans first encountered MOST generally believed in a balance between

Who wrote the poetry of “Die sanfte Bewegung, die liebliche Krafft”?

if a song is written in 6-8 time, which selection is equal to one measure?

Assume a song is written in 4-4 time. How many quarter notes are in each bar?

Who composed “Sherburne”?

How is a melodic interval structured?

How did the individual die in “Springfield Mountain”?

. During the Revolutionary War, a “parole” would be used to

The white keys on a piano are usually called

Who urged the colonists to unite in a confederacy similar to the First Nation?

Who wrote the poetry featured in “Sherburne”?

Which key is a traditional favorite of the twelvebar blues?

Which sect established the Massachusetts Bay Colony?

In which biblical book is the story featured in “Sherburne” found?

The text of “Sherburne” mentions Jesus’s

How is an arpeggio performed?

Which tempo indicator means “at a walking tempo”?

What is the second pitch in an A major scale?