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Brandenburg Concerto
Music for a While
Killer Queen
Defying Gravity
100
The three musical genres that this song fuses together.
What is traditional African, traditional Celtic and modern dance pop music.
100
The musical era in which this piece was composed.
What is the Baroque era.
100
The voice type this piece was written for.
What is counter tenor?
100
The instrument that plays the musical break/solo.
What is the electric guitar.
100
The key signature of this piece
What is D major?
200
The musical term that most accurately describes the pulse during the introduction of this piece.
What is free tempo.
200
The one type of texture that is not very present in this piece.
What is homophonic.
200
The relative major key signature of this piece.
What is C major.
200
True or false: Freddie Mercury begins singing on the down beat of the first bar.
False. He enters on an anacrusis or 'pick-up' just before the first bar.
200
______ best describes the tonality of the piece.
What is minor?
300
The accurate name of the tonality of this piece.
What is C aeolian mode.
300
Two musical reasons used to explain why this piece is considered energetic.
What is fast tempo, continuous and flowing music , dotted rhythms, triplets, busy polyphonic texture, use of trills, melody line gradually rising.
300
The most common form of cadence found in this piece.
What is a perfect cadence.
300
The term used for when an instrument, namely piano or guitar, repeats a set of chords over and over again underneath a solo or melody.
What is vamping?
300
Examples of musical features you might use to add variety to a repeated phrase in this piece.
What is harmonizing, singing in a different octave, changing the rhythm, changing the direction of the melody, or adding leaps to the melody?
400
One traditional instrument heard in this piece from each of the three genres.
What is hurdy gurdy, uillean pipes, fiddle, bodhran, talking drum, kora, voice, synthesizer
400
The two chords (in roman numerals) used in the perfect cadence at the end of the piece.
What is V-I.
400
The term used for the way Purcell writes the music to the words 'drop, drop, drop, drop'.
What is word painting.
400
The name of the 12/8 time signature.
What is compound quadruple time.
400
The name given to the syncopated rhythm used throughout the accompaniment.
What is push rhythm?
500
Three musical features of electronic dance music.
What is drum break, drum beats, samples/loops, electric piano, effects on vocals, synths, or digital effects on instruments.
500
One musical features of a gigue (type of dance).
What is allegro tempo or a regular beat.
500
Two examples of ornaments used in the harpsichord part.
What is an arpeggiation, trill, appagiatura, upper/lower mordent, or turn.
500
Two ways in which music technology is used in this piece.
What is guitar effects (distortion, wah-wah pedal), FX used on voices, over dubbing, panning.
500
The names of the BOTH voice types that sing in this piece.
What is soprano and mezzo soprano?
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