What is Texture?
a. The Number of People Playing
b. The Number of Instruments in an Orchestra
C. How Many Things are Happening at Once
D. How Many Instruments are Playing
C. How Many Things are Happening at Once
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The form characterized by AB is what?
a. Ternary
b. Binary
c. Rondo
d. Strophic
b. Binary
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A musical point of arrival (complete or incomplete)
a. Melody
b. Cadence
c. Tempo
d. Chord
b. Cadence
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Trombones would be in what section?
a. Brass
b. Woodwind
c. Strings
d. Percussion
a. Brass
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MODULATION is another name for:
a. Chord Progression
b. Texture
c. Key Change
d. Polyphony
c. Key Change
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When Two musical things are happening at the same time but one is MORE important that the other, the texture is:
a. Biphonic
b. Monophonic
c. Polyphonic
d. Homophonic
d. Homophonic
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The form characterized by ABA is what?
a. Strophic
b. Ternary
c. Binary
d. Rondo
b. Ternary
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The characteristic of sound which allows the ear to distinguish sounds which have the same pitch and loudness is:
a. Dynamics
b. Frequency
c. Pitch
d. Timbre
d. Timbre
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A Cello would be in which family?
a. Brass
b. Woodwind
c. Strings
d. Percussion
c. Strings
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True or False:
You can have a rhythm without a melody
True
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Many lines of equal importance happening at the same time is:
a. Homophony
b. Polyphony
c. Absolute Music
d. Monophony
b. Polyphony
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What is Rondo form?
a. AB
b. ABA
c. ABACA
d. Similar to verse/chorus
c. ABACA
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Pitch is determined by:
a. Rhythm
b. Cadence
c. Frequency
d. Chord
c. Frequency
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A Flute would be in which family?
a. Brass
b. Woodwind
c. Strings
d. Percussion
b. Woodwind
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True or False:
You can have a melody without a rhythm
False
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If the entire class were to sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star at the same time, the texture would be:
a. Biphonic
b. Monophony
c. Polyphony
d. Homophony
b. Monophony
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Every form in music contains repetition, contrast, and:
a. Basil
b. Movement
c. Polyphony
d. Variation
d. Variation
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Beats are organized into:
a. Tempos
b. Textures
c. Measures
d. Cadences
c. Measures
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Piano would be in which family?
a. Brass
b. Woodwind
c. Strings
d. Percussion
d. percussion
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A gradual quickening of the tempo is:
Accelerando
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The class singing Row-Row-Row Your Boat in a round is an example of what texture?
a. Heterophony
b. Monophony
c. Homophony
d. Polyphony
d. Polyphony
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A form in which the same music is repeated using different words is known as:
a. Binary
b. Ternary
c. Rondo
d. Strophic
d. Strophic
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Enharmonic tones are notes that:
Sound the same but have two names
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Clarinet would be in what family?
a. Brass
b. Woodwind
c. Strings
d. Percussion
b woodwind
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When a melody is performed in a smooth, connected style, it's called: