AcaDec 2015 Music Section 1

A whole step is synonymous with a 

Two bracketed staves together form the 

What divides measures?

The # sign indicates that a given pitch is 

When did the first electronic instruments appear? 

“Clef” comes from the French word for 

A half step is also called a

Which of this year’s music selections uses differentregisters to portray different characters? 

The natural minor scale is also called the

Which type of scale uses elements of both major andminor scales? 

A series of ascending and descending notes that startand end on the same pitch is called

Register is a term that refers to 

“Row, Row, Row Your Boat” contains an example ofa(n) 

What does subito piano instruct musicians to do?

Improvisation refers to

Which provides the intervals in a major scale, where W is a whole step and H is a half step?

C major and A minor are

Why is the leading tone unstable to Western listeners of music?

Why is the first beat called the downbeat?

Each single, isolated musical sound has all of thefollowing properties EXCEPT 

Which scale degree is the final resting point of a piece?

Scholars who comparatively study the music of othercultures are 

Symbols for accidentals are placed

How many half steps are in a major third?

What is the distance between C and D? 

Melody is MOST closely related to 

What key is indicated by “the key of F”? 

When musicians refer to a pitch, they refer to a tone 

Identify the range of a cello.

What type of meter involves multiple metersoperating at the same time? 

Which of the following is inquadruple meter? 

Weak beats are accented when the rhythm is 

The main rhythmic unit in music is the

The frequency of a sound wave affects a sound's 

How many major scales are there? 

The distance between each key on a piano keyboardand its adjacent key is called a(n) 

Attaching a stem to a whole note changes its valueby a factor of 

The range of a viola is 

How many scales can have the exact same keysignature? 

To which innovation did the Middle Ages give rise? 

Which clef indicates that the second line from the bottom of the staff is “G”? 

What marking often connects notes with flags? 

In “The Star Spangled Banner,” what's the intervalb/t “gleaming” and “and the rockets’...”? 

The lowest A is called the

Which of the following instruments would be MOSTlikely to play a tune with a low tessitura? 

The A string on a guitar is tuned to 

The Greek philosopher Plato argued that changingmusic conventions 

C major and C minor are

The tonic pitch in a G major scale is

Which of the following intervals would NOT betypical of a disjunct melody? 

Which Italian term indicates increasing ordecreasing the speed to indicate emotion? 

The normal human ear hears a wave as a single,sustained tone when the frequency is between 

How does a conjunct melody move?

The term “tessitura” is 

Into how many parts is a beat divided in compoundmeter? 

Which of these cities did NOT have famous postwarcenters for electronic music? 

The third scale degree is lowered by a half step in all

The Italian word Allegro means 

In France, you would use a clef to 

Which of the following intervals spans a largerdistance than an octave? 

In which type of scale is a pitch between the keys ofa keyboard MOST likely to be found? 

How many style periods do music historiansgenerally recognize? 

Cross-rhythm is also called 

Which of the following rhythmic patterns involves achanging meter? 

Electrophones create sound waves using amechanical device known as a(n) 

A set of sharps and flats indicated at the beginningof a piece is called the 

The distance between a note and its next-higher ornext-lower version is called a(n) 

To add melodic or harmonic inflections to a piece in aminor key, composers use 

A pair of keys with the same key signatures arecalled 

Which of the following tempos has the LEASTnumber of beats per minute? 

Which scale degree is known as the dominant pitch? 

In what meter are Mozart’s Rondo alla Turca andthe finale of Haydn’s Symphony No. 94? 

Cb and D# are a pair of 

What type of pitch is not in the indicated keysignature? 

Which of these statements about natural notes is NOT true?

Music can BEST be defined as sound 

Which of the following instruments is NOT achordophone? 

Which of these instruments is an idiophone? 

What are the two kinds of musical sounds? 

What does a tie do? 

What changes in a piece when it is transposed?

What is the distance between each consecutive key in the circle of fifths?

Which scale raises the sixth and seventh scaledegrees by a half step while ascending? 

What is the most common meter?

By how much does a double sharp raise the note?

By how much of the original value of the note does adot extend its duration? 

In which clef is the C-clef centered on the fourth linefrom the bottom of the staff? 

How many sixteenth notes are equal to four quarternotes? 

The ♭ sign means a note has been 

What does ritardando mean? 

Shifting the tonic of a tune while maintaining thesame pattern of scale degrees is called 

Which of the following intervals is a perfect fifth?

In “Erlkönig”, Schubert emulates compound meterwith 

Which of the following keys has only two sharps?

 Curt Sachs and Erich von Hornbostel together 

Which system of tuning has been used most frequently in the musical world since 1750? 

How many possible keys exist? 

A pure sine wave at 440 Hz sounds like 

Which two meters are hard to distinguish from eachother? 

The most common scale is probably

The first note of a piece begins before the downbeatin a(n) 

What is the dominant pitch in the key of D major?

What is the distance between two notes?

Counterpoint and harmony both involve

What changes when the score indicates anaccelerando?