Semester 2 Final

Question 1

Chord

Answer 1

group of 3 or more notes sounding simultaneously

Question 2

What is most common in stacked thirds?

Answer 2

triads

Question 3

Major

Answer 3

bright and happy sounding

Question 4

Minor

Answer 4

dark and sinister sounding

Question 5

Diminshed

Answer 5

dark and tense sounding

Question 6

Seventh

Answer 6

tense, but a bright happier sound than diminshed, kinda jazzy sounding

Question 7

What is the first note of any scale?

Answer 7

tonic

Question 8

Major scales

Answer 8

sound bright and happy

Question 9

What is the finger pattern for major scales

Answer 9

WWHWWWH

Question 10

Minor scales

Answer 10

sound dark and sinister, lowered third scale degree makes it minor

Question 11

Harmonic minor

Answer 11

7th scale degree is raised, middle east sound

Question 12

Natural minor

Answer 12

dark throughout, same scale going up and down

Question 13

Melodic minor

Answer 13

6th and 7th scale degree is raised and lowered on the way down

Question 14

three half steps between 6th and 7th scale degree without change in notes

Answer 14

harmonic minor

Question 15

whole step between 6th and 7th and 7th and 8th, scale doesn’t change on the way down

Answer 15

natural minor

Question 16

whole step between 6th and 7th, half step between 7th and 8th

Answer 16

major

Question 17

Diatonic notes

Answer 17

notes that occur naturally in a given key (no accidentals)

Question 18

Chord intervals?

Answer 18

half steps in stacked thirds, root to third, third to fifth

Question 19

Major

Answer 19

4 and 3

Question 20

Minor

Answer 20

3 and 4

Question 21

Augmented

Answer 21

4 and 4

Question 22

Diminished

Answer 22

3 and 3

Question 23

Order of flats?

Answer 23

BEADGCF, sharps is the reverse

Question 24

Identify key signature with sharps?

Answer 24

go up half step from last sharp

Question 25

Identify key signature with flats?

Answer 25

it is the next to last flat

Question 26

What is common time?

Answer 26

4/4 is common time

Question 27

How is a beautiful tone produced?

Answer 27

proper bow speed, bow placement, bow weight

Question 28

When playing a pickup note (or upbeat), it is usually played with a?

Answer 28

up bow

Question 29

a piece of music that begins with a loud dynamic on beat one of a measure (of the down beat) is played on a ?

Answer 29

down bow

Question 30

play over finger board

Answer 30

sul tasto

Question 31

play over bridge

Answer 31

sul ponticello

Question 32

con sordino

Answer 32

play with mute

Question 33

dolce

Answer 33

play sweetly

Question 34

tie

Answer 34

joins two notes on the same line or space

Question 35

slur

Answer 35

involves two or more different pitches or notes

Question 36

cantabile

Answer 36

in a singing style

Question 37

Terraced dynamics is a characteristic of the?

Answer 37

classical period

Question 38

Medieval

Answer 38

450-1450

Question 39

Renaissance

Answer 39

1450-1600 (Columbus discovers America)

Question 40

Baroque

Answer 40

1600-1750 (Bach and Handel- wrote Messiah which has Hallelujah chorus)

Question 41

Classical

Answer 41

1750-1820 (Mozart, Declaration of Independence)

Question 42

Romantic

Answer 42

1820-1900 (Civil War, Tchaikovsky)

Question 43

20th Century/ Modern

Answer 43

1900- present (Gershwin, Great Depression, WWI and WW2)