Practice Test Four

Analyze.

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

Which key has four flats?

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

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

Dates for the Renaissance period

Which instruments are in Bb?

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

Which is the tempo order from slow to fast?

Dates for the Romantic period

Which instruments are in the key of F?

Define 'calando.'

Which mode has a leading tone?

Which response characterizes Dalcroze's process of Eurhythmics?

What is a beat pattern for 11/8 meter?

Which transformation device means 'backwards?'

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

What is the texture of Gregorian chant?

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

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

Name the interval.

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

Aanalyze.

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

Which instrument is not considered a beginner instrument?  

Which metrical arrangement is iambic?

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

What is the earliest type of polyphony?

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

What is the best category for madrigal?

How do sopranos increase greater resonance on higher notes?

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

Dates for the Baroque period

Which music educator composed Music for Children using ostinato patterns?  

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

What note is Fi in G minor?

What would be the best genre to introduce homophonic texture?

What is music called that conveys a story?

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

Provide figured bass.

What is the form of large classical rondo?

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

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

Dates for the Classical period

Analyze.

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

What musical movement is associated with Phillip Glass?

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

Name the interval.

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