Practice Test Four

Dates for the Romantic period

What was the source of the popular designation of hip-hop?

What is the pattern of whole steps and half steps for the Dorian mode?

What would you advise a student to do if they are having trouble hitting a low note on tuba?

What sounds did John Cage use to compose 4'33"?

When the tenor sax plays a G, where is the actual concert pitch?

If the concert pitch is D, what would the trumpet note be?

Which transformation device means 'backwards?'

What is the form of large classical rondo?

What note is Fi in G minor?

Which music researcher coedited The New Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning?

Name the interval.

Which instrument is not considered a beginner instrument?  

Which mode has a leading tone?

Dates for the Classical period

What is music called that conveys a story?

Aanalyze.

Which musical period was concerned with mostly vocal forms and arch-shaped melodic lines?

What note is Do in the key of G# minor?

The concert pitch is Ab. What is the saxophone note?

Provide figured bass.

What would be the best genre to introduce homophonic texture?

Analyze.

Which key has four flats?

What is a beat pattern for 11/8 meter?

What prevented Robert Schumann from pursuing a virtuoso piano performance career?

What type of book was J. J. Fux's Gradus ad Parnassum?

Analyze.

What musical movement is associated with Phillip Glass?

Name the interval.

If a French horn plays Db, what is the concert pitch?

Which response characterizes Dalcroze's process of Eurhythmics?

What is the texture of Gregorian chant?

Which musical period was concerned with balanced/symmetrical forms and tuneful melodies.

The Fibonacci sequence is applicable to all these musical elements except which? 

Which instruments are in Bb?

Dates for the Baroque period

Which instruments are in the key of F?

What is the earliest type of polyphony?

Dates for the Renaissance period

Which music educator composed Music for Children using ostinato patterns?  

How do sopranos increase greater resonance on higher notes?

Define 'calando.'

Which metrical arrangement is iambic?

Which is the tempo order from slow to fast?

Which music educator formulated his philosophy teaching in a Swiss conservatory of music?

Which music educator wrote the landmark book, A Philosophy of Music Education?  

Which musical period was concerned with flamboyant ornamentation and quick harmonic rhythms?

What is the movement between two voices when one voice moves and the other does not?

What is the best category for madrigal?