Practice Test Four

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

Which instruments are in Bb?

Define 'calando.'

Provide figured bass.

Which music educator composed Music for Children using ostinato patterns?  

Dates for the Classical period

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

What is the best category for madrigal?

What would be the best genre to introduce homophonic texture?

Dates for the Romantic period

What is the form of large classical rondo?

Analyze.

What is a beat pattern for 11/8 meter?

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

Dates for the Renaissance period

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

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

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

Which response characterizes Dalcroze's process of Eurhythmics?

Which instruments are in the key of F?

Which mode has a leading tone?

Name the interval.

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

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

Aanalyze.

Which transformation device means 'backwards?'

What is the texture of Gregorian chant?

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

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

Which metrical arrangement is iambic?

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

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

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

What musical movement is associated with Phillip Glass?

What note is Fi in G minor?

What is the earliest type of polyphony?

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

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

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

How do sopranos increase greater resonance on higher notes?

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

Name the interval.

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

Which is the tempo order from slow to fast?

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

Dates for the Baroque period

Which key has four flats?

What is music called that conveys a story?

Which instrument is not considered a beginner instrument?  

Analyze.