Vocal Music Advanced
Baseline
1. A perfect or minor interval that is made a half-step smaller
a. Augmented Interval
b. Diminished Interval
c. Chromatic Interval
2. An perfect or Major interval that is made a half step larger
a. Augmented Interval
b. Diminished Interval
c. Chromatic Interval
3. A scale that uses all 12 tones within an octave
a. Chromatic Scale
b. Major Scale
c. Minor Scale
4. Moving in half-steps
a. Augmented
b. Diminished
c. Chromatic
5. Produced when a combination of notes give the feeling of rest.
a. Consonance
b. Dissonance
c. Diatonic
6. A harmonious or satisfying arrangement of a piece.
a. Balance
b. Diatonic
c. Augmented
7. Within the whole and half tone system of major and minor scales
a. Chromatic
b. Diatonic
c. Enharmonic
8. A pattern of pitches arranged by whole steps and half steps
a. Enharmonic
b. Chromatic
c. Scale
9. A combination of two or more tones that create tension and must be "resolved" with standard chords (ones that are expected or pleasant to the ear)
a. Consonance
b. Dissonance
c. Diatonic
10. The first tone of a chord or scale.
a. Octave
b. Tonic
c. Diatonic
11. The distance from one pitch to the same letter name; 12 half steps or 8 notes apart
a. Octave
b. Tonic
c. Diatonic
12. A symbol (8va) that, placed above a pitch, directs that it be performed an octave higher than written.
a. Articulation Marking
b. Ottava Sign
c. Tonic
13. The combination or mixing of voices so that no single voice is distinguishable from the group sound
a. blend
b. trio
c. Sextet
14. The ability to direct the breathing mechanism to provide a well regulated supply of air to the vocal chords
a. placement
b. Breath control
c. resonance
15. A song that can be sung independently, but fits well when sung with another song, and creates pleasant harmony
a. Nonet
b. Trio
c. Partner-Song
16. The degree of clarity and distinctness of pronunciation and articulation in singing
a. Diction
b. Blend
c. Tutti
17. To create music spontaneously
a. Improvise
b. arrange
c. compose
18. Three performers, performing three different parts
a. Nonet
b. Trio
c. Sextet
19. A collection of music that the student has learned and is prepared to demonstrate
a. Aria
b. Ballad
c. Repertoire
20. The historical period in Western Europe from 1400 – 1600 known as a period of re-birth
a. Medieval Period
b. Renaissance Period
c. Classical Period
21. Musical period in Western history from 500 – 1400
a. Medieval Period
b. Renaissance Period
c. Classical Period
22. The historic period in music approximately between 1600 and 1750. The music of the this period tended to be highly ornamented and sometimes elaborate
a. Classical Period
b. Baroque Period
c. Romantic Period
23. The musical period in Western history beginning around 1750 and ending around 1820
a. Classical Period
b. Baroque Period
c. Romantic Period
24. The musical period in Western Music beginning in the 1900’s until today
a. Classical Period
b. Contemporary Period
c. Romantic Period
25. The historical period in Western Music from 1830 to 1920
a. Classical Period
b. Contemporary Period
c. Romantic Period
26. A note that receives a quarter beat of sound in 4/4 time
a. Cut Time
b. Sixteenth Note
c. Sixteenth Rest
27. A rest that receive a quarter beat of silence in 4/4 time
a. Cut Time
b. Sixteenth Note
c. Sixteenth Rest
28. An alternative way of identifying a time signature representing 2 beats in a measure where the half note receives the beat
a. Cut Time
b. Down Beat
c. Anacrusis
29. Beat one of a measure
a. Anacrusis
b. Down Beat
c. Hemiola
30. An upbeat or pickup
a. Anacrusis
b. Down Beat
c. Hemiola
31. The change of rhythmic feeling within a composition. The relationship usually is 3 to 2
a. Anacrusis
b. Down Beat
c. Hemiola
32. The musical style in which a pair of eighth notes is no longer performed evenly, but instead like a triplet.
a. Swing
b. Waltz
c. Canon
33. "Between beats" where the emphasis does not fall on the expected beat of 1, 2, 3, or 4, but between them. Characteristic of jazz and some rock music
a. Cut time
b. Hemiola
c. Syncopation
34. A dance in moderate ¾ time
a. Swing
b. Waltz
c. Canon
35. Three part form ABA
a. Binary
b. Ternary
c. Canon
36. The term used for the way the parts of a piece of music are assembled. (verse/refrain; ABA; Rondo; mass; symphony, etc.)
a. Divisi
b. Form
c. Ternary
37. When one group (or leader) "calls" and the other group "responds", usually by echoing what the first did it
a. Call and Response
b. Parallel Motion
c. Contrary Motion
38. The strictest form of musical imitation, where one part begins, and the other part begins later the exact same line (much like a ROUND)
a. Binary
b. Ternary
c. Canon
39. A form in music consisting of two parts
a. Binary
b. Ternary
c. Canon
40. Movement of two parts when the interval separating them remains the same
a. Call and Response
b. Contrary Motion
c. Parallel Motion
41. Two melodies of musical lines going in opposite directions
a. Call and Response
b. Contrary Motion
c. Parallel Motion
42. Directions to a performer typically through symbols and icons on a musical score that indicate characteristics of the attack, duration, and decay (or envelope) of a given note
a. Hemiola
b. Divisi
c. Articulation Markings
43. Indicates that a large group is divided into two smaller groups.
a. Binary
b. Divisi
c. Ternary
44. Changing a phrase or composition to a key other than the one in which the piece in which the piece is written
a. transpose
b. Texture
c. Call and response
45. The "thickness" of harmony (how many interwoven parts)
a. Binary
b. Ternary
c. Texture
46. A symbol that looks like an archer's bow (also called curved brackets) that are used to connect two or more different staves in a musical score into a system
a. Articulation Marking
b. Hemiola
c. Brace
47. An obbligato part, or second melody, that is above the main melody
a. Call and response
b. Divisi
c. Descant
48. The ability of a person to identify a musical sound by name without any previous pitch being sounded; also called perfect pitch
a. Articulation
b. Absolute Pitch
c. Texture
49. The character or quality of a sound that distinguishes one voice from another
a. Timbre
b. Descant
c. Canon
50. Unique qualities that characterize and identify the variety of types of music available (country, classical, jazz, rock, folk, gospel, bluegrass)
a. Texture
b. Style
c. Canon