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Part I
Elements
1. How can music be defined?
A. Sounds produced by musical instruments
2. The four main properties of musical sounds are pitch, dynamics, tone color, and ______.
D. medium
3. The relative highness or lowness of a sound is called ______.
4. The _____ of a sound is decided by the frequency of its vibrations.
A. dynamics
5. What is pitch in music?
A. The degree of loudness or softness in music
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6. A specific pitch corresponds to a specific ______.
A. amplitude
7. How is the frequency of vibrations measured?
A. In cycles per minute
Feedback: Frequency of a sound's vibration--their speed--is measured in cycles per second.
8. In general, the smaller the vibrating element, the __________ its pitch.
D. louder
9. In music, a sound that has a definite pitch is called a ______.
A. noise
10. A tone in music is a sound that ______.
A. is pleasing to the ear
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11. The distance in pitch between any two tones is called ______.
A. duration
12. If a pitch vibrates at 880 cycles, the octave below would vibrate at ____ cycles.
A. 220
13. The interval that occurs when two different tones blend so well when sounded together that they seem to merge into one tone,
is called a(n) ______.
A. dynamic accent
14. When tones are separated by the interval called a(n) ______, they sound very much alike.
A. pitch range
15. The distance between the lowest and highest tones a voice or instrument can produce is called ______.
D. timbre
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Feedback: The distance between the lowest and highest tones that a voice or instrument can produce is called its pitch range, or
simply its range.
16. To what does dynamics in music refer?
A. The quality that distinguishes musical sounds
17. The loudness of a sound is related to the _________ of the vibration that produces the sound.
A. timbre
18. A dynamic accent occurs in music when a performer does what?
D. Begins speeding up the music
19. When a performer emphasizes a tone by playing it more loudly than the tones around it, it is called a ______.
A. blooper
20. When notating music for others to read, composers traditionally have used ____________ words to indicate dynamics.
A. English
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Learning Objective: Know the terms and symbols used to refer to dynamics in music
Topic: Dynamics
Feedback: When notating music, composers have traditionally used Italian words, and their abbreviations, to indicate dynamics.
21. The Italian dynamic markings traditionally used to indicate very soft, soft, and very loud are respectively ______.
A. piano, mezzo forte, forte
22. A gradual increase in loudness is known as a ______.
A. decrescendo
23. A gradual decrease in loudness is known as a ______.
A. ritardando
24. Timbre is synonymous with ______.
A. sound
25. Tone color is synonymous with ______.
A. sound
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C. timbre
D. dynamic accent
26. Why is it more difficult to sing than to speak?
A. Singing demands a greater supply of air and control of breath.
27. On what does the range of a singer's voice depend?
A. Training and musical style
28. While professional singers can command a pitch range of two octaves or more, an untrained voice is usually limited to about
______.
A. half an octave
29. Which of the following is not a normal classification of male voice ranges?
D. Bass
30. To what does register refer?
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A. Part of an instrument's total range
B. Playing two or more notes at the same time
C. The instrument manufacturer's brand name
D. The number of reeds an instrument uses
31. When music is created at the same time as it is performed, it is said to be ______.
A. percussive
32. A symphonic band is different from an orchestra due to the absence of ______.
A. brass
33. The bow that string players usually use to produce sound on their instruments is a slightly curved stick strung tightly with
______.
A. catgut
34. How are the strings of a violin tuned?
D. At the factory
35. Plucking the string with the finger instead of using a bow is called ______.
A. tremolo
36. Pizzicato is an indication to the performer to ______.
A. draw the bow across two strings at the same time
37. When the string player causes small pitch fluctuations by rocking the left hand while pressing the string down, it is called
______.
D. nervosa
38. Why does a string player use vibrato?
A. The performer is unsure of the correct pitch.
39. The very high-pitched tones that are produced when a string player lightly touches certain points on a string are called
______.
D. tremolo
40. Rapidly repeating tones by quick up-and-down strokes of the bow is a string technique known as ______.
D. portamento
41. Woodwind instruments are so named because they ______.
A. are made of wood
42. The highest woodwind instrument in the orchestra is the ______.
D. clarinet
43. The lowest woodwind instrument in the orchestra is the ______.
A. piccolo flute
44. How do flute and piccolo players produce sound?
D. By vibrating a double reed
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Feedback: Woodwind instruments are great individualists and are much less alike in tone color than the various strings. Flute and
piccolo players blow across the edge of a mouth hole, but the rest of the woodwind instruments rely on a vibrating reed.
45. A thin piece of cane, used singly or in pairs by woodwind players, is called a ______.
D. mouthpiece
46. The English horn is a ________ instrument.
47. The saxophone is a ______.
A. double-reed woodwind instrument
48. Which of the following is not a double-reed instrument?
A. Oboe
49. Which of the following is not a brass instrument?
A. Cornet
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Topic: Woodwind instruments
Feedback: The English horn is a double-reed woodwind.
50. The vibrations of brass instruments come from ______.
A. valves
51. Brass instruments did not acquire valves until the ____________________ century.
A. middle of the 18th
52. Before 1850, French horn and trumpet players would insert ___________ into their instruments to change the range of
available pitches.
D. mouthpieces
53. A hollow, funnel-shaped piece of wood, plastic, or metal that brass players use to alter the tone of their instruments is called a
______.
A. tailpiece
54. The ___________ are the only orchestral drums of definite pitch.
A. snare drums
55. Which of the following is not a percussion instrument of definite pitch?
D. Chimes
56. Benjamin Britten’s Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra uses a theme by which English composer?
D. Gustav Holst
57. The xylophone consists of a set of _____ bars that are played with mallets.
A. metal
58. The _________ pedal is the most important of the three pedals usually found on a piano.
D. swell
59. The piano has _______ keys, spanning more than seven octaves.
A. 47
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Bloom's: Remember
Learning Objective: Identify keyboard instruments
Topic: Keyboard instruments
Feedback: The piano has 88 keys that span more than seven octaves.
60. The _________ has strings that are plucked by a set of plastic, leather, or quill wedges.
A. piano
61. An organist controls various sets of pipes by pulling knobs called ______.
A. pipes
62. The _______ is a keyboard instrument that uses vibrating air columns to produce sound.
D. accordion
63. In the full score of an orchestral composition, the families of instruments are arranged from top to bottom in the order of
______.
A. strings, woodwinds, brass, percussion
64. Which of the following is a technique normally associated with composition in a tape studio?
A. Recorded sounds
65. The main tool of composers of electronic music during the 1950s was the ______.
A. MIDI
66. _________ are systems of electronic components that generate, modify, and control sound.
A. Amplifiers
67. What does synthesizers do?
A. They can usually be played by means of a keyboard.
68. A technology based on placing brief digital recordings of live sounds under the control of a synthesizer keyboard is known as
______.
D. MIDI
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69. A computer program known as a(n) ______ enables composers to record audio onto separate tracks and mix and synchronize
the results into compositions
D. tape studio
70. A composer may use a digital audio workstation to manipulate sound by ______.
A. filtering
71. ProTools, Digital Performer, Adobe Audition, Logic Pro, and GarageBand are all examples of ______.
A. computers
D. Quality of the computers used
73. The ________ is a regular, recurrent pulsation that divides music into equal units of time.
D. rhythm
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Bloom's: Remember
Learning Objective: Recognize beat in music
Topic: Rhythm
Feedback: Beat is a regular, recurrent pulsation that divides music into equal units of time. Beats can be represented by marks on
a timeline.
74. The element of music defined as the ordered flow of music through time, or more specifically, the particular arrangement of
note lengths in a piece of music, is ______.
A. beat
75. The organization of beats into regular groups is called ______.
D. dynamics
regular groups is called meter.
76. The first, or stressed, beat of a measure is known as the ______.
A. upbeat
77. _____________ is the effect of unexpected accents in the music.
A. Meter
78. Which of the following is a characteristic feature of jazz music?
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C. Expiation
D. A ritardando
79. The term ___________ refers to the speed of the beat of the music.
A. meter
D. largo
81. The Italian term _____________ is a tempo marking to indicate a lively pace.
A. andante
82. Which of the following is the slowest tempo indication?
D. Vivace
83. A gradual slowing-down of tempo is indicated by the term ______.
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D. crescendo
84. A _______________ is an apparatus that produces ticking sounds or flashes of light at any desired musical speed.
A. clock
85. A ___________ sign is used in musical notation to cancel a previous sharp or flat sign.
86. Western music uses ____________ letters of the alphabet to indicate pitch.
A. the first five
87. In musical notation, pitches are written on a set of five horizontal lines called a ______.
88. A _______ is placed at the beginning of a staff to show the exact pitch of each line and space.
