National Qualifications: Music Listening Revision

Intermediate 2 and Credit level: 10 test questions with feedback.

Multiple choice questions

Choose a correct answer for each question by clicking in the appropriate box. Always make sure you listen to the music so that you recognize the SOUND to match the description.

Changing key?
1. Tonal
2. pizzicato
3. Ornament
4. Modulating
Choose a feature present in the music.
1. Relative major
2. Relative Minor
3. Sequence
4. Variation
The key with the same key signature as the associated Major key.
1. Relative Major
2. Relative Minor
3. Repetition
4. Ornament
A piece of music based on a key either Major or Minor.
1. Atonal
2. Modulating
3. Whole tone
4. Tonal
Not having a key signature or Tonal centre?
1. Major
2. Minor
3. Tonal
4. Atonal
Choose a feature present in the music.
1. Tremolando
2. Grace note
3. Trill
4. Syllabic
A term used for Ornaments and usually associated with bagpipe music.
1. Trill
2. Grace notes
3. Melismatic
4. Syllabic
Choose a feature present in the music.
1. Syllabic
2. Mellismatic
3. Word painting
4. Whole tone
When the musical sound helps to describe a word.
1. A capella
2. Syllabic
3. Word painting
4. Backing vocals
Vocal music in which one syllable is sung over a number of notes.
1. Word setting
2. Melismatic
3. Syllabic
4. Lead singer
Which scale do you hear?
1. Blues scale
2. Major Scale
3. Minor Scale
4. Pentatonic
which scale do you hear in this excerpt.
1. Blues Scale
2. Pentatonic Scale
3. Chromatic Scale
4. Whole tone scale
The gap between two notes?
1. Scales
2. Harmony
3. Interval
4. Chords
Used in the Middle ages? Choose a feature present in the music.
1. Major scale
2. Mode
3. Minor scale
4. Chromatic scale
Choose a feature present in the music.
1. Relative major