National Qualifications: Music Listening Revision

Intermediate 1 or General level test questions with feedback.

Answer each multiple choice question as instructed. Notice the feedback box for wrong answers.

The melody or tune on which a composition is based.
1. Variation
2. Theme
3. Scale
4. Anacrusis
The music is varied by altering the rhythm, melody and /or tonality.
1. sequence
2. Theme
3. repetition
4. Variation
When a phrase of music is copied by another voice or instrument.
1. Imitation
2. Variation
3. sequence
4. repetition
Term used to describe a decoration of a melodic line.
1. Imitation
2. Repetition
3. Major scale
4. Ornament
The smallest interval used between any note and the next note.
1. Tone
2. Major scale
3. Semitone
4. Imitation
The interval between E up to F# or E down to D.
1. Semitone
2. Major scale
3. Minor Scale
4. Tone
A progression of notes moving by step ascending or descending.
1. Scale
2. Theme
3. Variation
4. Arpeggio
The five note scale used in Folk Music.
1. Major Scale
2. Minor scale
3. Chromatic Scale
4. Pentatonic Scale
The 8 note bright and happy scale.
1. Major Scale
2. Minor Scale
3. Pentatonic Scale
4. Chromatic Scale
The 8 note sad and plaintive scale.
1. Major Scale
2. Minor Scale
3. Pentatonic Scale
4. Chromatic Scale
The scale which uses all 12 notes in an Octave. Listen
1. Major Scale
2. Minor Scale
3. Pentatonic Scale
4. Chromatic Scale
Singing in which nonsense syllables are used instead of words.
1. Major scale
2. Scat Singing
3. Chord Progressions
4. Unison
The music changes from one key to another.
1. Scat singing
2. Chord progressions
3. Modulation
4. Vamp
At the piano the left hand plays the bass note on the beat and the right plays the chord off the beat.
1. Scat singing
2. Vamp
3. Unison
4. Anacrusis
A continuous note above which a melody is usually heard.(bagpipes).
1. Drone
2. Vamp
3. Theme