Music

Question 1

Define: Acoustic Instrument

Answer 1

An instrument that doesn’t use electricity to generate sound

Question 2

Define: Electric Instrument

Answer 2

An instrument that uses electricity to generate sound

Question 3

Define: Fills

Answer 3

A short musical passage played during a break between the melody where nothing else is happening

Question 4

Define: Ostinato/Riff

Answer 4

A repeated pattern

Question 5

Define: Melodic contour

Answer 5

The shape of the melody

Question 6

Define: Counter-melody

Answer 6

A melody that accompanies the main melody

Question 7

Define: Syncopation

Answer 7

Accenting weak beats in a piece of music

Question 8

Define: Backbeat

Answer 8

A form of syncopation - happen in beat 2 & 4, played by snare drum in basic rock beat

Question 9

Define: Bass Clef

Answer 9

A clef used by instruments that play low notes

Question 10

Define: Ledger Lines

Answer 10

Lines added for notes above and below the range of the stave

Question 11

Define: Chord

Answer 11

Three or more notes of different pitch sounding at the same time

Question 12

Define: Sequence

Answer 12

The repetition of a melody or a phrase at a higher or lower pitch

Question 13

Define: Interval

Answer 13

The distance between two notes

Question 14

Define: Score

Answer 14

The written form of a musical composition

Question 15

Define: Lyrics

Answer 15

The words of a song

Question 16

Define: Hook line

Answer 16

The key phrase of a rock song

Question 17

Define: Common time

Answer 17

‘C’ same as 4/4

Question 18

Define: Tie

Answer 18

A curved line between two notes of the same letter name. Second note not played but count is holded

Question 19

Define: Structure

Answer 19

Outline of the main sections in a piece of music

Question 20

Define: Leitmotif

Answer 20

A specific melody that represents and accompanies a character throughout a film

Question 21

Define: Bridge

Answer 21

A short passage linking two sections together

Question 22

Define: Anacrusis

Answer 22

When the music doesn’t start on the first beat of the music

Question 23

Define: Glissando

Answer 23

Sliding up and down the notes

Question 24

Define: Tonality

Answer 24

When the music is in either a major or a minor key

Question 25

Define: Multimetric

Answer 25

A composition featuring more than one time signature

Question 26

Define: Tutti

Answer 26

When the full orchestra playing together

Question 27

Define: Program Music

Answer 27

A instrumental music (no singers) which paints a picture, tells a story or depicts an idea

Question 28

Define: Nationalistic Composer

Answer 28

A composer that expresses his love and pride of his homeland in music

Question 29

Define: Movement

Answer 29

A section in a classical piece of music

Question 30

Define: Tempo

Answer 30

The speed of a piece of music

Question 31

Define: Dynamics

Answer 31

The volume of the sound

Question 32

Define: Expressive techniques

Answer 32

Detail in the music that make the music sound more intresting

Question 33

Define: Stave

Answer 33

The lines and spaces used to notate music

Question 34

Define: System

Answer 34

All instruments playing at the same time in the music

Question 35

Define: Doubling

Answer 35

When two more instruments play the same line of music at the same time

Question 36

Define: Binary form

Answer 36

A B A B form

Question 37

Define: Tonic

Answer 37

First note of the scale

Question 38

Define: Phrase

Answer 38

A musical sentence

Question 39

Define: Sequence

Answer 39

A repetition of a melody or a phrase at a higher or lower pitch

Question 40

Define: Accidental

Answer 40

A sharp, flat or natural sign that appears in the score rather than in the key signature

Question 41

Define: Slur

Answer 41

To play smoothly and well connected

Question 42

Define: Ternary Form

Answer 42

A B A form