Test One

Question 1

Measure of high and low

Answer 1

Pitch

Question 2

Measure of loud and soft

Answer 2

Dynamic

Question 3

How long the sound lasts

Answer 3

Duration

Question 4

Quality of sound

Answer 4

Timbre

Question 5

Music is written on a

Answer 5

Staff

Question 6

____ must be present in order to tell where the notes are

Answer 6

Clef

Question 7

Mezzo means medium

Answer 7

True

Question 8

Piano means

Answer 8

Soft

Question 9

Forte means

Answer 9

Loud

Question 10

Decrescendo and diminuendo mean the same thing

Answer 10

True

Question 11

Two clefs

Answer 11

Bass

Treble

Question 12

Treble clef is identified by which letter

Answer 12

G

Question 13

Bass clef is identified by which letter

Answer 13

F

Question 14

Mr. Whitt plays what instrument

Answer 14

French horn

Question 15

Name of the piece of wood that is placed on a woodwind instrument to cause it to vibrate

Answer 15

Reed

Question 16

Only brass instrument that

Doesn’t have valves

Answer 16

Trombone

Question 17

Instruments are grouped according to how they

Answer 17

Vibrate

Question 18

Produce sound through air

Answer 18

Aerophones

Question 19

Solid instruments that produce sound by being struck, scraped, or shaken

Answer 19

Idiophones

Question 20

Produce sound by striking or rubbing

A skin or membrane

Answer 20

Membranophones

Question 21

Create sounds by striking, running, plucking a string

Answer 21

Chordophones

Question 22

Top number of a time signature

Answer 22

How many beats per measure

Question 23

Bottom number of a time signature

Answer 23

Which note gets the beat

Question 24

Three types of musical textures

Answer 24

Monophonic
Polyphonic
Homophonic

Question 25

Highest male voice

Answer 25

Tenor

Question 26

Four main voice parts

Answer 26

Soprano Tenor Bass Alto

Question 27

Musical texture that involves one musical line

Answer 27

Monophonic

Question 28

Musical texture that has a musical line with chordal accompaniment

Answer 28

Homophonic

Question 29

Musical texture that has many musical lines occurring at the same time

Answer 29

Polyphonic

Question 30

Lowest female voice part

Answer 30

Alto

Question 31

Largo

Answer 31

Very slow

Question 32

Adagio

Answer 32

Slow

Question 33

Andante

Answer 33

Walking tempo

Question 34

Moderato

Answer 34

Moderate

Question 35

Allegro

Answer 35

Fast

Question 36

Relationship of the instrument size to pitch

Answer 36

The bigger the instrument, the lower the pitch. The smaller the instrument, the higher the pitch

Question 37

Four elements of musical tone

Answer 37

Pitch Duration Dynamic Timbre