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What is the musical term to describe an 'upbeat'?
Appoggiatura
Anacrusis
Antiphonal
Arpeggio
2
What instruments could play the basso continuo in the Baroque period?
Trombone
Harp
Viola
Organ
3
How is rhythm changed when it is augmented?
Doubled
Played staccato
Lengthened
Shortened
4
Identify the non-pitched percussion instrument from the list below.
Glockenspiel
Tubular bells
Gong
Celesta
5
What is the name for the group of soloists in a Concerto Grosso?
Ripieno
Basso continuo
Concertino
Virtuoso
6
What term describes a musical idea that is associated with a person, place or emotion?
Sample
Riff
Ostinato
Leitmotif
7
What does the picture represent?
Vibrato
Trill
Mordent
Turn
8
What does the picture represent?
Appoggiatura
Mordent
Turn
Acciacatura
9
What is the term for a pedal that occurs in the middle or top of the musical texture?
Tonic pedal
Dominant pedal
Inverted pedal
Inner pedal
10
On a string instrument what is the name for a very high sound produced by placing a finger on a string very lightly?
Glissando
Tremolo
Portamento
Harmonic
11
Identify a Baroque composer from the list below.
Telemann
Corelli
Haydn
Mendelssohn
12
Identify a duple metre from the list below.
6/8
9/8
3/4
4/4
13
What word refers to the same pitch being written in two different ways, such as F# and Gb?
Tremolo
Enharmonic
Stretto
Rubato
14
Identify this cadence in C major.
Plagal cadence
Imperfect cadence
Interrupted cadence
Perfect cadence
15
Identify one string instrument playing technique from the list below.
Double stopping
Flutter tonguing
Glissando
Portamento
16
Identify a playing technique on the electric guitar.
Distortion
Reverb
Wah-wah
Panning
17
What studio recording technique moves the sound from one stereo field to the other?
Panning
Delay
Reverb
Multi-tracking
18
Which one of these terms does NOT relate to texture.
Octave doubling
Contrapuntal
Broken chords
Polyphonic
19
Identify a transposing instrument.
French horn
Violin
Clarinet
Double bass
20
What chord does Beethoven use a lot in Pathetique sonata for expressive purposes?
Diminished 7th
Augmented 6th
Dominant 7th
Neapolitan 6th
21
What is the term for when a man sings in the top register of his voice
Overdubbing
Parlando
A capella
Falsetto
22
What is the name for an aria in ternary form in the Baroque period?
Recitative
Da capo
Colla voce
Ritornello
23
Name one instrument that was introduced into the orchestra in the Classical period.
Harp
Piccolo
Tuba
Clarinet
24
Name the scale that uses the white notes from A to A on a piano.
Minor
Modal (Aeolian)
Pentatonic
Major
25
Which of these instruments is NOT Celtic?
Hurdy-Gurdy
Bodhran
Kora
Accordion
26
Which one of these is NOT a related key to D major?
B minor
D minor
B major
G major
27
Identify a feature of Baroque music from the list below.
Extremes of dynamics
Contrapuntal texture
Periodic phrasing
Melody-dominated homophony
28
Which one of these terms does not relate to
melody?
Pedal note
Sequence
Scalic
Ornamentation
29
Identify this cadence in C major.
Imperfect cadence
Interrupted cadence
Perfect cadence
Plagal cadence
30
What term describes chords based on intervals on a 4th?
Quartal
Triadic
Diminished
Ostinato