National Qualifications: Music Listening Revision

General Concepts Quiz

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The melody or tune on which a composition is based.
The music is varied by altering the rhythm, melody and /or tonality.
When a phrase of music is copied by another voice or instrument.
Term used to describe a decoration of a melodic line.
The smallest interval used between any note and the next note.
The interval between E up to F# or E down to D.
A progression of notes moving by step ascending or descending.
The five note scale used in Folk Music.
The 8 note bright and happy scale.
The 8 note sad and plaintive scale.
The scale which uses all 12 notes.
Singing in which nonsense syllables are used instead of words.
The music changes from one key to another.
At the piano the left hand plays the bass note the right plays the chord.
A continuous note above which a melody is usually heard.(bagpipes).
When a note is played on the first beat of the bar.
. The last beat in the bar. A conductor would show this as an upward stroke.
When a piece of music begins with an up beat.
Time signatures such as 6/8 , 9/8 are in this.
When a weak part of the bar is accented.
Getting faster.
Italian term for slowing down.
Elasticity of tempo following the natural ebb and flow of the music.
Two or more notes sounding together.
A group of adjacent notes played together.
Notes of a chord played one after the other, ascending or descending.
A continuously moving bass line improvised on the notes of a chord.
An additional melodic line sung above a given melody.
When musical lines move in opposite directions.
A contrapuntal form : melody is repeated a few beats or a bar later.
A piece of music which is composed in two sections. A||B.
A piece of music which is composed in three sections. A||B||A.
This form often used as the third movement of the Classical symphony.
A form often used in the last movement of a concerto A|B|A|C|A|D|A.
A musical idea used for a composition and altered each time it is repeated.
The idea on which the composition is based. Picture/story/poem.
When the music becomes gradually louder.
When the music becomes gradually softer.
Type of slow, sad American Negro song telling of their misfortune.
Scott Joplin wrote this early type of Jazz for piano.
The music of the big bands of Glenn Miller.
The term used to describe the music written from about 1830 to 1900.
A drama set to music, performed on a stage with solo singers, orchestra, chorus.
Stage music of the 20th Century with singers, actors, band and scenery.
A flourish for trumpets or other instruments imitating them.
Music written for a solo instrument and orchestra.
A work for orchestra which is usually in four movements.
Sung by the congregation of the Free Church of Scotland in Gaelic.
A Scottish song which tells a story.
A Scottish song in strophic form which was sung by farm workers.
A Gaelic work song from the Outer Hebrides sung when softening cloth.
Gaelic singing originally used to imitate instrumental music for dancing.
A slow traditional Scottish melody in the style of a song.
West African drum music.
A percussion Orchestra originating in Indonesia.
Creating music during performance often in Jazz.
A fast Scottish and Irish dance in compound time, usually with 2 beats in a bar.
A syncopated lively dance, 2 beats in a bar from Brasil.
A dance style from Cuba with lots of percussion sounds.
A high sounding female voice.
A high sounding male voice.
A low sounding female voice.
A low sounding male voice.
Which section of the orchestra can you hear in this excerpt.
Which section of the orchestra can you hear in this excerpt.
Which section of the orchestra can you hear in this excerpt.
Which section of the orchestra does this instrument come from.