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Academic Decathlon Music Test
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In a melody, more than one pitch can occur at the same time
True
False
2
What movie: music is used to signal time moving at a different pace
Back to The Future III
Close encounters of the third kind
Inception
Mars attacks
3
On a piano, higher pitches are made with keys on the right side of the keyboard while lower pitches are to the left
True
False
4
Most music has a beat, whether or not it's audible
False
True
5
What is rhythm
The tempo of the the music
The way the beats sound
The way the music moves through time
The melody of the music
6
Two or more pitches sounding together create a harmony
False
True
7
Three or more pitches sounding simultaneously create a cord
False
True
8
What is pitch
The wavelength of the sound
The harmony of a sound
The highness & lowness of a sound
The volume of a sound
9
Film technology debuts in Europe marking the start of cinematic age
1915
1895
1899
1901
10
Movie studios are great to produce only " sound on film " movies, making way for '' talking "
1926
1927
1929
1928
11
E.T.: the extraterrestrial is released, and its score helps audiences understand that aliens are to be loved not feared
1927
1994
1982
1968
12
The distance between two pitches is called an interval
False
True
13
New scores have been written for old films, such as this one that received a rock music treatment in 1984
What is Mars Attack
What is Metropolis
What is The Planets
What is Extra-Terrestrial (E.T)
14
Arpeggio
Notes of a chord that are played successively ascending or descending
Music used to show tension at the climax of a movie
Chords that repeat in the middle of a song
Playing notes backwards to build attention
15
2001 A Space Odyssey is released, a film the director calls 'essentially a nonverbal experience"
1894
2001
1933
1968
16
Steven Spielberg edited scenes of ET to match a musical score instead of asking a composer to rewrite the music
True
False
17
A harmonic progression moves through a series of chords from consonance to dissonance
False
True
18
Multi-tracking
Separate recordings playing simultaneously
Filming a scene with multiple cameras at once
Using more than one track during a film
Recording two sounds using one track
19
What Movie: John Williams wrote the score for this (ese) movies
Forbidden planet
Wall-E
Mars attacks
Star Wars
20
A meter is
A series of pictures put together with a begging y middle y end
Sound organized over time
A pattern of strong and weak beats
Device that measures and records quantity degree or rate of music
21
What Movie: aliens travel to earth
Wall-E
ET extra terrestrial
Mars attacks
Forbidden planet
22
What are the four types of textures
Ileostomy, colostomy, theophany, predominantly
Monophony, homophony, polyphony, heterophony
Monogamy, polygamy, hysterectomy, headphony
Diatonic, accidentals, chromatic, Harmony
23
Which does not belong
Harp
Theremin
Saxophone
Electric cello
24
Orchestration is part of writing a score and involves choosing instruments
True
False
25
There are three types of musical textures in Western music: polyphony, monophony, and heterophony
True
False
26
Rhythm is
Set of seven pictures above the tonic key
Strong regular repeated pattern of movement or sound
Patterns of strong and weak beats
Durations of varying lengths over the beat
27
Polychord
Two or more tones that are layered together
Two or more chords that are played in quick succession
Two or more diatonic harmonies that are played on top of each other
Two or more chords that are combined at the start of a score
28
When music goes softer it's called?
Decrescendo
Ritardo
Decreasio
Crescendo
29
The band Toto produces one of the first rock scores for the movie Dune
1968
1984
1986
1994
30
Chords and melodies that occur naturally within a given key are
Diatonic
Whole steps
Half steps
Chromatic
31
The steady pulse in music is the tempo
True
False
32
Non-diegetic music is music that can be heard by both the audience and the characters on screen
False
True
33
Pitch is
Durations of varying lengths over the beat
Patterns of strong and weak beats
How high or low a sound is
A set of 12 equal intervals
34
All melodies have a contour, which can be disjunct or conjunct and may ascend, descend, or move in a wave like manner
True
False
35
Minor Key sounds
Like swings of keys between octaves
Dark and sad
Ominous
Light and happy
36
The distance between any two pitches is called an interval, there are five main types of intervals...
Tone, pitch, tempo, rhythm, and Melody
Symphony, cord, bass, forte, and Dynamics
Octave, unison, semitone, tritone, and minor scale
Major, minor, perfect, diminished, and augmented
37
The first mega movie premieres at the length of 150 minutes
1948
1956
1982
1927
38
This cut of film is given to composers as they begin to write the score
What is the first cut
What is the rough cut
What is the test cut
What is the pre-cut
39
Music is
Sound organized over time
Durations of varying lengths over the beat
A series of pictures put together with the beginning middle and end
A steady pulse beneath most music
40
Synthesizer
An instrument that is only used in science fiction movies
An electronic instrument that combines a variety of og music & sounds
The tool composers used to record music for a film
A keyboard that plays random electronic sounds instead of notes
41
What Movie: a robot falls in love
Forbidden pyar
Star wars
Wall-E
Close encounter the third kind
42
The movie A Trip to The Moon debuts as the first science fiction film in history
1895
1906
1902
1926
43
This era of music spanned most of the 19th century and influence the way music in films was composed
What is classical era
What is neoclassicism era
What is the romantic era
What is baroque era
44
What is texture
The quality created by a combination of different elements in music
The feel appearance or consistency of a surface or substance
The feeling of the music and how the sounds represent
The layer of sound and how they interact
45
An octave is
Set of seven pictures above the tonic key
One of 30 major or minor scales
Set of seven pictures below the tonic key
12 equal intervals
46
A Beat is
A steady pulse beneath the most music
Durations of varying lengths over the tone
Set of seven pictures below the tonic key
When hands are placed upon another person causing harm
47
Dune and it's accompanying score were well received and the movie was released
False
True
48
Major keys sound...
Ominous
Light and happy
Deep and sad
Like swings of keys between octaves
49
What Movie: A robot is in trouble
Inception
Back to the Future 3
Close encounters of the third kind
Star wars
50
When music goes louder it's called?
Ritardo
Crescendo
Decrescendo
Diminuendo
51
Chords and melodies that use accidentals and borrow pitches from other keys are
A tempo
A beat
Diatonic
Chromatic
52
Which does not belong
Polychord
Synth pad
Cymbol roll
Segue
53
What is a scale
A metal device used to tell the weight of objects or people
The relative size or ratio of something
Pitches arranged in a particular ascending or descending order
A range of values forming a standard system for measuring or grading smt
54
The assembly cut for titanic, which included multiple shots of many scenes, was 36 hours long
False
True
55
Which does not belong
Blasters
Hyperdrive
Flying saucer
Three laws of robotics
56
Melody is
Patterns of strong and weak beats
A steady pulse beneath most music
A series of pictures put together with the beginning middle and end
Sound organized over time
57
Every isolated musical sound has the following five properties: pitch, volume, duration, timbre, and scale
True
False
58
Skills are built using a series of quarter steps and eighth steps
False
True
