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
2. Whole tone scale
3. Chromatic scale
4. Relative minor
A musical full stop?
1. Plagal cadence
2. Imperfect cadence
3. Interrupted cadence
4. Perfect cadence
Choose a feature present in the music.
1. Perfect cadence
2. Imperfect cadence
3. Tierce de Picardie
4. Modal
Choose a feature present in the music.
1. Dissonance
2. Consonance
3. Harmony
4. Passing note
Choose a feature present in the music.
1. Consonance
2. Dissonance
3. Interval
4. Passing note
This music is in?
1. Simple time
2. Harmony
3. Compound time
4. Pentatonic scale
Choose a feature present in the music.
1. Simple time
2. Cross rhythms
3. Compound time
4. On the beat
Choose a feature present in the music.
1. Simple time
2. Compound time
3. Inverted pedal
4. Passing notes
What kind of bass part do you hear?
1. Ground bass
2. Pedal
3. Inverted pedal
4. Alberti Bass
Choose a feature present in the music.
1. Polyphony
2. Obbligato
3. Homophony
4. Counter melody
Choose a feature present in the music.
1. Obbligato
2. Polyphony
3. Homophony
4. Strophic
Choose a feature present in the music.
1. Suspension
2. Passing note
3. Interval
4. Pedal
Choose a feature present in the music.
1. Strophic
2. Through composed
3. Inverted pedal
4. Obbligato
Choose a feature present in the music.
1. Homophony
2. Pedal
3. Counter melody
4. Cadenza
A vocal/choral composition in which each verse has the same music.
1. Through composed
2. Strophic
3. Homophonic
4. Coda
A piece of music or song which has little or no repetition.of the music.
1. Through composed
2. Strophic
3. Word painting
4. Syllabic
The concluding section of a movement which rounds it off effectively.
1. Cadenza
2. Obbligato
3. Strophic
4. Coda
Choose a feature present in the music.
1. Coda
2. Alberti Bass
3. Obbligato
4. Cadenza
What type of voice do you hear.
1. Tenor
2. Mezzo soprano
3. Bass
4. Baritone
Whta kind of voice do you hear?
1. Counter tenor
2. tenor
3. Baritone
4. Bass
What kind of voice do you hear in this excerpt.
1. Soprano
2. Baritone
3. Counter tenor
4. Alto
Choose a feature present in the music.
1. Col Legno
2. Arco
3. Muted
4. Pizzicato
The upper, middle or lower ranges of a voice or instrument
1. A capella
2. Register
3. Col legno
4. Tremolo
A guitar which is double strung, having two strings per pitch
1. Sitar
2. Fretless bass
3. Electric guitar
4. 12 String guitar
Choose a feature present in the music.
1. Cantata
2. Minimalist
3. Boogie woogie
4. Dixieland
Choose a feature present in the music.
1. Con sordino
2. Pizzicato
3. Col Legno
4. Glissando
Choose a feature present in the music.
1. Col legno
2. Con sordino
3. Pizzicato
4. Glissando
Choose a feature present in the music.
1. Ground bass
2. Pedal
3. Inverted pedal
4. Alberti Bass
Choose a feature present in the music.
1. Ground bass
2. Pedal
3. Inverted pedal
4. Alberti Bass
Choose a feature present in the music.
1. Ground bass
2. Pedal
3. Inverted pedal
4. Alberti Bass
Choose a feature present in the music.
1. Col Legno
2. Arco
3. Muted
4. Pizzicato
Choose a feature present in the music.
1. Col Legno
2. Arco
3. Muted
4. Pizzicato
Choose a feature present in the music.
1. Col Legno
2. Arco
3. Muted
4. Pizzicato
Choose a feature present in the music.
1. Tremolando
2. Arco
3. Double stopping
4. Pizzicato
Choose a feature present in the music.
1. Tremolando
2. Arco
3. Double stopping
4. Pizzicato
Choose a feature present in the music.
1. Tremolo
2. Vibrato
3. Flutter tonguing
4. Glissando
Choose the instrument playing in the excerpt.
1. Sitar
2. Fretless bass
3. Electric guitar
4. 12 String guitar
Choose the instrument playing in the excerpt.
1. Slide Guitar
2. Fretless bass
3. Electric guitar
4. 12 String guitar
Choose the instrument present in the music.
1. Slide Guitar
2. Fretless bass
3. Electric guitar
4. 12 String guitar
Choose a feature present in the music.
1. Slide Guitar
2. Fretless bass
3. Tabla
4. 12 String guitar
Choose the style of music present in the excerpt.
1. Cantata
2. Minimalist
3. Boogie woogie
4. Dixieland
Choose the style of music present in the excerpt.
1. Cantata
2. Minimalist
3. Aleatoric
4. Passion
Choose the style of music present in the excerpt.
1. Cantata
2. Minimalist
3. Aleatoric
4. Passion
Choose the style of music present in the excerpt.
1. Cantata
2. A capella
3. Oratorio
4. Passion
Choose the style of music present in the excerpt.
1. Cantata
2. Chorale
3. Oratorio
4. Passion
Choose the style of music present in the excerpt.
1. Cantata
2. Chorale
3. Oratorio
4. Hymn Tune
Choose the style of music present in the excerpt.
1. Recitative
2. Aria
3. Passion
4. Hymn Tune
Choose the style of music present in the excerpt.
1. Recitative
2. Aria
3. Chorus
4. Hymn Tune
Choose the style of music present in the excerpt.
1. Recitative
2. Aria
3. Chorus
4. Pibroch
Choose the style of music present in the excerpt.
1. Recitative
2. Aria
3. Chorus
4. Pibroch
Choose the style of music present in the excerpt.
1. Reel
2. Strathspey
3. March
4. Pibroch
Choose the style of music present in the excerpt.
1. Soul
2. Country
3. Indian
4. Dixieland
Choose the style of music present in the excerpt.
1. Soul
2. Country
3. Indian
4. Dixieland
Choose the style of music present in the excerpt.
1. Soul
2. Country
3. Indian
4. Dixieland