National Qualifications: Music Listening Revision

Test Higher Concepts

Answer each question by choosing the appropriate box and clicking on it to indicate your answer.

Place a tick to indicate the cadence you hear.
1. Perfect cadence
2. Imperfect cadence
3. Interrupted cadence
4. Plagal cadence
Place a tick to indicate the cadence you hear...
1. Perfect cadence
2. Imperfect cadence
3. Interrupted cadence
4. Plagal cadence
Place a tick to indicate the chord you hear in the excerpt.
1. Augmented chord
2. Dominant 7th
3. Diminished 7th
4. Added 6th
Place a tick to indicate the chord you hear in the excerpt.
1. Augmented chord
2. Dominant 7th
3. Diminished 7th
4. Added 6th
Place a tick to indicate the chord you hear in the excerpt.
1. Augmented chord
2. Dominant 7th
3. Diminished 7th
4. Added 6th
Place a tick to indicate the chord you hear in the excerpt.
1. Augmented chord
2. Dominant 7th
3. Diminished 7th
4. Added 6th
Place a tick to indicate the style of music you hear in the excerpt.
1. Mode
2. Dominant 7th
3. Polytonality
4. Harmonic minor
Place a tick to indicate the style of scale you hear in the excerpt.
1. Mode
2. Dominant 7th
3. Polytonality
4. Harmonic minor
Place a tick to indicate the style of scale you hear in the excerpt.
1. Mode
2. Harmonic minor
3. Polytonality
4. Melodic minor
Place a tick to indicate the style of scale you hear in the excerpt.
1. Mode
2. Harmonic minor
3. Polytonality
4. Melodic minor
Place a tick to indicate the ornament you hear in the excerpt.
1. Acciaccatura
2. Appoggiatura
3. Turn
4. Mordent
Place a tick to indicate the ornament you hear in the excerpt.
1. Acciaccatura
2. Appoggiatura
3. Turn
4. Mordent
Place a tick to indicate the ornament you hear in the excerpt.
1. Acciaccatura
2. Appoggiatura
3. Turn
4. Mordent
Place a tick to indicate the ornament you hear in the excerpt.
1. Acciaccatura
2. Appoggiatura
3. Turn
4. Mordent
An interval of less than a semitone and used frequently in modern music.
1. Microtone
2. Tritone
3. Tone row
4. Mordent
Place a tick to indicate the correct term you hear used in this excerpt.
1. Microtone
2. Tritone
3. Tone row
4. Mordent
Place a tick to indicate the correct term you hear used in this excerpt.
1. Hemiola
2. Three against two
3. Augmentation
4. Diminution
Music with three beats in a bar moves to two beats and creates a cross rhythm at a cadence.
1. Hemiola
2. Three against two
3. Augmentation
4. Diminution
Doubling or increasing the note value of a theme.
1. Hemiola
2. Three against two
3. Augmentation
4. Diminution
Reducing the note value of a theme after it has been heard.
1. Hemiola
2. Three against two
3. Augmentation
4. Diminution
Form mainly used for 1st movements in Concertos, Symphonies, Sonatas etc.
1. Exposition
2. Bridge
3. Sonata form
4. Subject
Section of music which joins two main parts of a movement together.
1. Exposition
2. Bridge
3. Sonata form
4. Subject
The initial statement of a theme or musical idea.
1. Exposition
2. Bridge
3. Sonata form
4. Subject
Place a tick to indicate the correct term you hear used in this excerpt, when a theme is used for the first time.
1. Transition
2. Bridge
3. Sonata form
4. Subject
Section in a Fugue after subject and and played at the same time as the answer.
1. Fugue
2. Stretto
3. Counter subject
4. Subject
Place a tick to indicate the correct term you hear used in this excerpt.
1. Fugue
2. Stretto
3. Counter subject
4. Subject
Entries in a fugue where each part comes in one after the other quickly..
1. Fugue
2. Stretto
3. Transition
4. Ripieno
A less important passage which will link to a major theme.
1. Concerto grosso
2. Stretto
3. Transition
4. Ripieno
Place a tick to indicate the type of composition you hear used in this excerpt.
1. Concerto grosso
2. Concertino
3. Transition
4. Continuo
Place a tick to indicate the term used to describe the main body of the orchestra.
1. Solo Concerto
2. Concertino
3. Transition
4. Ripieno
Place a tick to indicate the solo group in this style of composition.
1. Ritornello
2. Concertino
3. Rondo
4. Ripieno
Place a tick to indicate the term used to describe this solo section.
1. Ritornello
2. Air
3. Episode
4. Ripieno
Place a tick to indicate the section of a composition you hear used in this excerpt.
1. Ritornello
2. Concertino
3. Episode
4. Continuo
Place a tick to indicate the term used to describe the accompanying instruments in this section.
1. Ritornello
2. Aria
3. Ripieno
4. Continuo
Place a tick to indicate the term used to describe this style of composition.
1. Serial
2. Leitmotif
3. Mode
4. Continuo
A chord or note row turned upside down is in .....
1. Serial
2. Inversion
3. Retrograde
4. Continuo
Place a tick to indicate the term used to describe this backward version of a note row.
1. Leitmotiv
2. Cadence
3. Retrograde
4. Continuo
Place a tick to indicate the style of composition used in this excerpt.
1. Leitmotiv
2. Minimalist
3. Harmonics
4. Consort
Can be produced on a bowed string instrument by lightly touching the string at certain points.
1. Concertino
2. Ripieno
3. Harmonics
4. Consort
Place a tick to indicate the term used to describe this style of composition.
1. Ripieno
2. Minimalist
3. Harmonics
4. Consort
Place a tick to indicate the style of composition used in this excerpt.
1. Minimalist
2. Ripieno
3. Harmonics
4. Consort
Place a tick to indicate the period of composition you hear in this excerpt.
1. Late romantic
2. Neo-classical
3. Nationalist
4. Renaissance
Place a tick to indicate the style of composition used in this excerpt.
1. Polytonality
2. Neo-classical
3. Nationalist
4. Jazz funk
Place a tick to indicate the period of composition used in this excerpt.
1. Late romantic
2. Neo-classical
3. Muisique concrète
4. Jazz funk
Place a tick to indicate the period of composition used in this excerpt.
1. Late romantic
2. Neo-classical
3. Muisique concrète
4. Jazz funk
Place a tick to indicate the period of composition used in this excerpt.
1. Late romantic
2. Neo-classical
3. Muisique concrète
4. Jazz funk
Place a tick to indicate the period of composition used in this excerpt.
1. Late romantic
2. Neo-classical
3. Muisique concrète
4. Jazz funk
Place a tick to indicate the period of composition used in this excerpt.
1. Pavane
2. Galliard
3. Overture
4. Sonata
A lively dance, usually in triple time from the 16th Century.
1. Suite
2. Galliard
3. Overture
4. Sonata
Place a tick to indicate the style of composition used in this excerpt.
1. Pavane
2. Galliard
3. Overture
4. Sonata
Place a tick to indicate the style of composition used in this excerpt.
1. Suite
2. Chaconne
3. Overture
4. Sonata
Set of dances or pieces; on their own or part of larger work
1. Suite
2. Chaconne
3. Passacaglia
4. Overture
Composition in slow stately three beat time with a Ground Bass
1. Suite
2. Chaconne
3. Fugue
4. Chorale Prelude
Place a tick to indicate the style of composition used in this excerpt.
1. Prelude
2. Chant
3. Passacaglia
4. Chorale Prelude
Instrumental piece based on a chorale, a German Lutheren hymn tune.
1. Prelude
2. Tone poem
3. Passacaglia
4. Chorale Prelude
Place a tick to indicate the style of composition used in this excerpt.
1. Prelude
2. Tone poem
3. Passacaglia
4. Chorale Prelude
Place a tick to indicate the style of composition used in this excerpt.
1. Prelude
2. Tone poem
3. Passacaglia
4. Chorale Prelude
Place a tick to indicate the style of composition used in this excerpt.
1. Plainchant
2. Mass
3. Antiphonal
4. Motet
Place a tick to indicate the style of vocal composition used in this excerpt.
1. Madrigal
2. Mass
3. Antiphonal
4. Motet
Place a tick to indicate the style of vocal composition used in this excerpt.
1. Madrigal
2. Anthem
3. Antiphonal
4. Motet
Place a tick to indicate the style of vocal composition used in this excerpt.
1. Madrigal
2. Anthem
3. Air
4. Chant
Early christian; also term used for Anglican psalm and Canticle performance
1. Ballet
2. Lied
3. Air
4. Chant
Place a tick to indicate the style of vocal composition used in this excerpt.
1. Ballet
2. Lied
3. Song Cycle
4. Chant
Place a tick to indicate the term for this style of german song.
1. Ballet
2. Lied
3. Song Cycle
4. Da Capo aria
Place a tick to indicate the style of composition this excerpt is taken from.
1. Coloratura
2. Sprechgesang
3. Song Cycle
4. Da Capo aria
Place a tick to indicate the style of composition used in this excerpt.
1. Coloratura
2. Sprechgesang
3. Song Cycle
4. Da Capo aria
Place a tick to indicate the style of singing used in this excerpt.
1. Coloratura
2. Sprechgesang
3. Song Cycle
4. Da Capo aria
Place a tick to indicate the style of performance used in this excerpt.
1. Coloratura
2. Sprechgesang
3. Song Cycle
4. Da Capo aria
Place a tick to indicate the concept used in this excerpt.
1. Microtone
2. Tritone
3. Tone row
4. Mordent
Place a tick to indicate the concept used in this excerpt to describe the echo effect.
1. Madrigal
2. Mass
3. Antiphonal
4. Motet