National Qualifications: Music Listening Revision

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Higher and Advanced Higher Quiz

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A musical punctuation mark using chord IV - I.
A musical punctuation mark using chord V - VI.
The chord with an added 7th note eg. C,E,G,Bb.
A four note chord, all intervals a minor 3rd eg. C,Eb,Gb,A.
A chord of three notes with both intervals a Major 3rd.
A chord contaning four notes eg. C,E,G,A.
The use of two or more keys at the one time as used by Stravinsky.
Term used for early scales such as Dorian and Aeolian.
The version of the Minor scale used for Harmony.
The version of the Minor scale used for melody.
Crushed dissonant note of the shortest possible duration played before the main note.
A musical ornament : an auxiliary note falling or rising to a harmonized note.
An Ornament: note itself, note above, note itself, note below.
An Ornament: very rapid: Note, note semitone below, the first note again.
An interval of less than a semitone and used frequently in Eastern and Modern music.
An interval of three whole tones or an augmented 4th.
Term used for the set of notes used in a 12 tone composition.
Triplet crotchets in one part against common time crotchets in the other.
Music with three beats in a bar moves to two beats and creates a cross rhythm at a cadence.
Doubling or increasing the note value of a theme.
Reducing the note value of a theme after it has been heard at a slower speed.
Form mainly used for 1st movements. Listen to the start of a movement.
Section of music which joins two main parts of a movement together.
The initial statement of a theme or musical idea. Listen to an example from a Concerto.
An extended composition in which the music announced in one voice part, then imitated by other voices in succession.
The main theme of a fugue. Listen to an example.
Section in a Fugue after the subject and at the same time as the answer. Listen to this example.
Entries in a fugue where each part comes in one after the other quickly. Listen to this example.
A less important passage which will link to a major theme.
Listen to and name this Baroque composition for instrumental soloists and orchestra.
The group of the main body of strings in a Concerto Grosso.
The solo group in a Concerto Grosso.
The full orchestra sound in a Concerto Grosso for a section of music which keeps returning.
Used to describe contrasting sections between recurrences of a main theme in a Concerto Grosso and also in Fugues.
Bass line in early compositions up to and including the Baroque period which often used Harpsichord and Cello.
A 20th century method of composition invented by Schoenberg using 12 notes.
A chord or note row turned upside down is in .....
Backwards version of a note row.
Recurring theme symbolizing a character, emotion or object in Wagner Opera for example.
Varese used this term instead of Music to describe his compositions.
Produced on a bowed string instrument by lightly touching the string at certain points.
A group of instruments from the Renaissance/Early Baroque periods.
The period of music before Baroque. Listen to this example from that period.
Music which portrays the heritage of a country.
20th century music which uses Classical forms.
Late 19/20th century music with dramatic intensity of Early 19th C.
Combination of Jazz and Amplified Rock instruments.
Recorded natural sounds transformed into music.
A slow stately dance from the 16th Century.
Listen to a lively dance, usually in triple time from the 16th Century.
Music to introduce an Opera, oratorio or Musical.
Set of dances or pieces; on their own or part of larger work.
Composition in slow stately three beat time, a set of variations over a repeated chord pattern.
Applies to a piece with a repeated theme, often but not necessarily in the Bass.
Instrumental piece based on a chorale, a German Lutheren hymn tune.
Introductory piece or movement before a fugue, act of an opera or even a play.
A one movement work for an Orchestra, sometimes called a Symphonic poem, music which tells a story.
Ancient Church Music; a single unaccompanied vocal line in free rhythm.
The service of the Roman Catholic Church, which has five main parts. Listen to an excerpt from one of these.
The term for two opposing choirs or instrumental groups which echo one another.
Listen to a an excerpt from a short Religious choral composition for performance during the Roman Catholic Service.
Listen to an excerpt from an unaccompanied, polyphonic secular song of the 16/17 centuries.
Listen to an excerpt from a short choral work written for performance in the reformed church.
English for aria but sometimes just a song.
Early christian; also term used for Anglican psalm and Canticle performance.
Listen to an excerpt from strophic, dance like song with a fa,la chorus but not a Madrigal.
The term used for German Romantic song.
A series of songs which collectively tell a story.
An Aria for solo singer which is in ternary form A|B|A. Listen to an excerpt of the end of A and start of B.
A highly decorated style of singing in which the singer performs long melismatic phrases.
Half way between singing and speaking; appears in music by by Schoenberg and Berg.