Grade 3

Question 1

What does largamente mean?

Answer 1

Broadly

Question 2

What does Larghetto mean?

Answer 2

Rather broadly

Question 3

What does prestissimo mean?

Answer 3

Extremely fast or as fast as possible

Question 4

What does con moto mean?

Answer 4

With movement

Question 5

What does Calando mean?

Answer 5

Getting softer and slower

Question 6

What does Morendo mean?

Answer 6

Dying away

Question 7

What does forte piano mean?

Answer 7

Loud then immediately soft

Question 8

What does sforzando mean?

Answer 8

A strong accent

Question 9

What does agitato mean?

Answer 9

With agitation

Question 10

What does attacca mean?

Answer 10

Go on at once

Question 11

What does animato mean?

Answer 11

With animation

Question 12

What does tranquillo mean?

Answer 12

Calmly

Question 13

What does con anima mean?

Answer 13

With feeling

Question 14

Why does con brio mean?

Answer 14

With spirit

Question 15

What does con grazia mean?

Answer 15

With grace

Question 16

What does con forza mean?

Answer 16

With force

Question 17

What does dolce mean?

Answer 17

Soft and sweet

Question 18

What does risoluto mean?

Answer 18

With resolution

Question 19

What does Ben Marcato mean?

Answer 19

Well marked

Question 20

What does Main Droite mean?

Answer 20

Right hand

Question 21

What does Main Gauche mean?

Answer 21

Left hand

Question 22

What does una corda mean?

Answer 22

With the soft pedal

Question 23

What does Tre Corde mean?

Answer 23

Release the soft pedal

Question 24

What does Ad Libitum mean?

Answer 24

At pleasure, quite freely

Question 25

What does opus mean?

Answer 25

A work or group of works

Question 26

What does Loco mean?

Answer 26

At normal pitch (after an 8va sign)

Question 27

What does M.M mean?

Answer 27

Maelzels’s metronome - 66 crotchets to a minute (bpm)

Question 28

What does 8va bassa mean?

Answer 28

An octave lower

Question 29

What is an 8va?

Answer 29

An octave higher

Question 30

What are the technical degrees?

Answer 30

1- Tonic 2- Super tonic 3- Mediant 4- Sub-dominant 5- Dominant 6- Sub-mediant 7- Leading note 8- Upper tonic

Question 31

What is a rondo?

Answer 31

A . B . A . C . A

Question 32

What is 3/2 time?

Answer 32

3 minims to a bar - simple triple time

Question 33

What is 2/2 time?

Answer 33

2 minims to a bar - simple duple time Cut common Alla breve

Question 34

What is 3/8 time?

Answer 34

3 quavers to a bar - simple triple time

Question 35

What is 9/8 time?

Answer 35

3 dotted crotchets in a bar - compound triple time

Question 36

What is a sequence?

Answer 36

A sequence is a pattern of music that is repeated identically either higher or lower than the first pattern.

Question 37

What is a duplet?

Answer 37

2 notes played in the time of 3 notes of the same value (always in compound time)

Question 38

What is the range of a soprano voice?

Answer 38

Middle C to G octave and a fifth

Question 39

What is the range of an alto voice?

Answer 39

G below treble stave to D (an octave and a fifth)

Question 40

What is the range of a tenor voice?

Answer 40

C in the bass clef to a G (octave and a fifth)

Question 41

What is the range of a bass voice?

Answer 41

G in the bass clef to a D above middle C (octave and a fifth)

Question 42

What are the primary triads?

Answer 42

The I, IV, V chords of the scale

Question 43

What is a double sharp?

Answer 43

Double sharp raises the note by a tone or two semitones

Question 44

What is a double flat?

Answer 44

Double flat lowers the note by a tone or two semitones

Question 45

What is compound time?

Answer 45

Compound time is uneven beats divisible by 3

Question 46

What is an Enharmonic change?

Answer 46

Same note with different name e.g B#, C

Question 47

What chords are in a plagal cadence?

Answer 47

The fourth of the scale resolves to the tonic chord.

Question 48

What chords are in the perfect cadence?

Answer 48

The fifth chord of the scale resolves to the tonic chord of the scale