National Qualifications: Music Listening Revision

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Advanced Higher Music

Multiple Choice and single answer questions

Answer each question as instructed.

Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Ostinato
2. Obbligato
3. Ragtime
4. Riff
5. Jazz Funk
6. 12 string guitar
7. Fretless Bass
8. Clarinets and saxophones
9. Hemiola
10. Saxophones and trumpets
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Classical
2. Late romantic
3. Renaissance
4. Piano
5. Ballett
6. Sequence
7. Continuo
8. Cadenza
9. Concerto
10. Chaconne
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Aria
2. Recitative
3. Lied
4. Melisma
5. Descant
6. Obbligato
7. Classical
8. Oratorio
9. Counter tenor
10. Pavane
Listen to the excerpt and type in the type of voice you hear.
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Motet
2. Madrigal
3. Ballett
4. Anthem
5. Renaissance
6. Imitation
7. Sequence
8. Interrupted cadence
9. Perfect cadence
10. Hemiola
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Classical period
2. Baroque
3. imitation
4. ostinato
5. Homophony
6. Polyphony
7. Antiphonal
8. A cappella
9. Rallentando
10. Rubato
Listen to the excerpt, the style and after considering the period in which this music was composed type in the name given to a group of instruments from this period.
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Ballett
2. Madrigal
3. Renaissance period
4. Baroque period
5. Continuo
6. Imitation
7. Sequence
8. Coloratura
9. Word painting
10. A cappella
Listen to the excerpt and type in the name of this style of composition.
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Pizzicato strings
2. Word painting
3. Melisma
4. Coloratura
5. Interrupted cadence
6. Song cycle
7. Imperfect cadence
8. Plagal cadence
9. Obbligato
10. Descant
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Tenor voice
2. Counter tenor
3. Baritone
4. Inverted pedal
5. Tremolando
6. Perfect cadence in a major key
7. Perfect cadence in a minor key
8. Plainchant
9. Aria
10. Recitative
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Canon
2. Fugal
3. Sonata form
4. Appoggiatura
5. A cappella
6. Pedal
7. Inverted pedal
8. Polyphonic
9. Classical
10. Renaissance
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Ayre
2. Aria
3. Lied
4. Counter Tenor
5. Baritone
6. Bass
7. Classical
8. Romantic
9. Rallentando
10. Rubato
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Hemiola
2. Antiphonal
3. Homophonic
4. Minor scale
5. Chromatic Scale
6. Alberti Bass
7. A cappella
8. Rubato
9. 20th century
10. Renaissance
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Viola Solo
2. Cello Solo
3. Oboe Solo
4. Bassoon solo
5. Orchestral Glissando
6. Pizzicato
7. Col Legno
8. Romantic
9. Tone row
10. Fugue
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Diminished Chord
2. Side Drum
3. Arpeggios
4. Aria
5. Sprechgesang
6. Recitative
7. Counter Tenor
8. Perfect Cadence
9. Imperfect Cadence
10. Harp
Listen to the excerpt and type in the name in the instrument accompanying the singers.
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Alberti Bass
2. Ground bass
3. Inverted pedal
4. Sequence
5. Baroque Period
6. Classical period
7. Counter melody
8. Hemiola
9. Female Chorus
10. Accelerando
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Homophonic
2. Fugal
3. Col legno
4. Pizzicato
5. Double stopping
6. Classical period
7. Romantic period
8. Baroque
9. Hemiola
10. Sequence
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Classical Period
2. 20th century Romantic
3. Baroque period
4. Homophonic
5. Polyphonic
6. Hemiola
7. A cappella
8. Madrigal
9. Anthem
10. Motet
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Cadence
2. Cadenza
3. Inverted pedal
4. Pedal
5. Descending minor scales
6. Symphony
7. Diminished 7th Chord
8. Dominant 7th chord
9. Baroque period
10. Turns
Listen to the excerpt and type in the name of this style of composition.
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Double stopping
2. Col legno
3. Symphony
4. Cantata
5. Imitation
6. Viola solo
7. Cello solo
8. Pedal
9. Atonal
10. Programme music
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Alberti bass
2. A Cappella
3. Unison
4. Ground Bass
5. Continuo
6. Inverted pedal
7. Romantic
8. Mixed voices
9. Cantata
10. Plagal Cadence
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
3. Whole tone scale
4. Baroque
5. Imperfect cadence
6. Rubato
7. Accelerando
8. Sprechgesang
9. Alberti bass
10. pedal
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Pedal
2. Anthem
3. Mass
4. Interrupted cadence
5. Tenor Voice
6. Vibrato
7. 20th century
8. Music Concrète
9. Continuo
10. Recitative
Listen to the excerpt and type in the name of the kind of choir performing in the excerpt.
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Dissonant
2. Romantic
3. Trill
4. Tremolando
5. Neo-classical
6. Flutter tonguing
7. 20th Century
8. Quartet
9. Chamber music
10. Ayre
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Oratorio
2. Duet
3. Con sordino
4. Aria
5. Baritone voice
6. Classical period
7. Minor key
8. Upward major scales
9. Octaves
10. Opera
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Subject
2. Ayre
3. Exposition
4. Imitation
5. Classical Period
6. 20th Century
7. Fugue
8. Stretto
9. Ripieno
10. Homophonic
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Baroque
2. Cantata
3. Recitative
4. Continuo
5. Concertino
6. Plainchant
7. Unison
8. A cappella
9. Polyphonic
10. Consort
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Classical
2. Syllabic
3. Baroque
4. Hemiola
5. Ritornello
6. Episode
7. Imitation
8. Antiphonal
9. Plagal cadence
10. Coloratura
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Lute
2. Harpsichord
3. Tenor
4. Counter tenor
5. Continuo
6. Aria
7. Ayre
8. Motet
9. Classical
10. Imperfect Cadence
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Ayre
2. Antiphonal
3. Melisma
4. Interrupted cadence
5. Tierce da Picardie
6. Continuo
7. Madrigal
8. Romantic
9. Hemiola
10. Turn
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Ayre
2. Lied
3. Aria
4. Bass
5. Baritone
6. Arpeggio
7. Classical
8. Accelerando
9. Rallentando
10. Rubato
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Chromatic scale
2. Romantic
3. Impressionist
4. Plagal cadence
5. 18th century
6. Whole tone
7. Sequence
8. Pedal
9. 20th Century
10. Modal
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Con sordino
2. Tremolando
3. Trill
4. Syncopation
5. Rallentando
6. Glissando
7. Chant
8. Inverted Pedal
9. Double stopping
10. Flutter tonguing
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Homophonic
2. Mordent
3. Classical
4. Pavan
5. Fugal
6. Polyphonic
7. Turn
8. Cadenza
9. Lute
10. Harp
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Classical
2. Romantic
3. Mass
4. Chamber music
5. Counter melody
6. Major key
7. Exposition
8. Modulation from minor to major
9. Cadenza
10. Recitative
Type in the style of composition that this excerpt come from.
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Symphony
2. Opera
3. A Cappella
4. Unison/Octaves
5. Renaissance
6. Bass Drum
7. Polyphonic
8. Ritornello
9. Coda
10. Romantic period
Listen to the excerpt and consider the speed, period and number of beats in the bar and type in the space provided the name of the type of movement from which this excerpt has been taken.
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Pedal
2. Flute solo
3. Cadenza
4. Repetition
5. Sequence
6. 20th century
7. Augmentation
8. Diminution
9. Polytonality
10. Clarinet
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Subject
2. Cadenza
3. Arco
4. Improvisation
5. Trill
6. Turn
7. Fugue
8. Prelude
9. Ballett
10. Tierce da Picardie
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Scat singing
2. Ayre
3. Plagal cadence
4. Pedal
5. Waulking song
6. Walking Bass
7. Pizzicato
8. Improvisation
9. Alberti Bass
10. Ragtime
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Ragtime
2. Con sordino
3. Swing style
4. Blues style
5. Turn
6. Coda
7. Glissando
8. Pedal
9. Acciaccatura
10. Samba
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Vibrato
2. Blues
3. Imperfect cadence
4. Glissando
5. Counter melody
6. pedal
7. Ragtime
8. Compound time
9. Stretto
10. Programme music
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Appoggiatura
2. Rallentando
3. Tremolando
4. Imperfect cadence
5. Trill
6. Glissando
7. Improvisation
8. Continuo
9. Inverted pedal
10. Rubato
type in the name of the solo instrument present in the excerpt.
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. String quartet
2. Major
3. Syllabic
4. Baroque
5. Modal
6. Renaissance
7. Consort
8. Tenor
9. Lute
10. Ayre
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Col legno
2. Ritornello
3. Episode
4. Double stopping
5. Arpeggios
6. Chromatic movement
7. Tremolando
8. Inverted pedal
9. Tierce da Picardie
10. Chaconne
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Late Romantic
2. Classical
3. Col Legno
4. Sequence
5. Continuo
6. Concerto
7. Tremolando
8. Stretto
9. Answer
10. Inverted pedal
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Whole tone scale
2. Ayre
3. Shift to minor key
4. continuo
5. Imitation
6. Interrupted Cadence
7. Aria
8. Pedal
9. Harp
10. Ritornello
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Compound time
2. Major key
3. Ayre
4. Hemiola
5. Melisma
6. Obbligato
7. Baroque
8. Lute
9. Stretto
10. Romantic
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Hemiola
2. Stretto entries
3. Triplets
4. Octaves with melody
5. Prelude
6. Twelve tone scale
7. Dissonant Chords
8. Added sixth chords
9. Waulking song
10. Vibraphone
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Octaves
2. Chromatic scales
3. Minimalist
4. Music concrète
5. Imitation
6. Continuo
7. Modal
8. Interrupted cadence
9. Romantic
10. Col legno
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Sonata form
2. Classical
3. Concerto
4. Whole tone scale
5. Ritornello
6. Chromatic movement
7. Con sordino
8. Polytonality
9. Neo Classical
10. Syncopation
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Appoggiatura
2. Sextet
3. Turn
4. Cadenza
5. Hemiola
6. Classical
7. Inverted Pedal
8. Alberti bass effect
9. 19th Century Romantic
10. Pizzicato
Listen to the excerpt and type in the correct overall name for this style of music.
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Classical
2. Arpeggios
3. Cadenza
4. Rubato
5. Stretto
6. Tierce da Picardie
7. Romantic
8. Sequence
9. Alberti bass
10. Pedal
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Pedal
2. Recitative
3. Continuo
4. Alberti Bass
5. Pause
6. Descending major scales
7. Minor key
8. Concerto
9. Classical Symphony
10. Con sordino
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Counter tenor
2. Counter melody
3. Baroque
4. Classical
5. Recitative
6. Melisma
7. Aria
8. Motet
9. Rubato
10. Exposition
Which instrument is featured playing playing an obbligato in this excerpt.
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Bassoon
2. Xylophone
3. Pedal
4. Clarinet
5. Celeste
6. Romantic period
7. Col Legno
8. Compound time
9. Bass Clarinet
10. Classical
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Obbligato
2. Recitative
3. Ayre
4. Melisma
5. Pedal
6. Continuo
7. Chromatic movement
8. Vibrato
9. Anthem
10. Madrigal
Type in the name of the instrument playing the obbligato.
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Saxophone obbligato
2. Recitative
3. Ascending Minor scale
4. Descending Major scales
5. Bassoon obbligato
6. Sonata
7. Dominant 7th chord
8. Interrupted cadence
9. Harpsichord
10. Ostinato
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Chamber music
2. Rallentando
3. Rubato
4. Sequence
5. Stretto
6. Answer
7. Pedal
8. Classical
9. Plagal Cadence
10. Coda
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Recitative
2. Ayre
3. Pedal
4. Inverted pedal
5. Classical
6. Cross rhythms
7. A cappella
8. Interrupted cadence
9. Coloratura
10. Chant
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Motet
2. Madrigal
3. Oratorio
4. A cappella
5. Renaissance
6. Homophomic
7. Accelerando
8. Melisma
9. 20th Century
10. Fugal
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Motet
2. Recitative
3. Aria
4. Fugue
5. Major key
6. Strophic
7. Subject
8. Baroque
9. Melisma
10. Atonal
From what kind of work has this example been taken.
Listen to the excerpt and tick four features present in the excerpt.
1. Romantic
2. Rallentando
3. Vibrato
4. Unison/Octaves
5. Plagal cadence
6. Pedal
7. Syllabic throughout
8. Pizzicato
9. Interrupted cadence
10. Coloratura
From which period of music is this excerpt taken,