Bach
Beethoven
Purcell
Queen
Afro Celt Sound System
Wicked
Samba Em Preludio
Star Wars
100
B minor
What key is the B section in?
100
Sonata Form
What form is this piece in?
100
Music performed as part of a play
What is incidental music?
100
Roger Taylor
Who is the drummer in Queen?
100

C minor

What is the key?

100

Verse-chorus

What is the form of the piece?

100

The genre of the song.

What is bossa nova?

100

The ensemble playing the piece.

What is an orchestra?

200
A flute, a violin and a harpsichord
What parts make up the concertino?
200
The key of the second subject?
What is E flat minor?
200
A cello and harpsichord
What forms the continuo?
200
The effect used on the word 'laser beam'
What is a phase shifter?
200

Two textures used in the piece

What are homophonic/polyphonic/hetrophonic?

200

The term for the free time, speech-like dialogue between Elphaba and Glinda at the beginning.

What is colla voce?

200

The tonality of the piece.

What is B minor?

200

The significant rhythm used in the opening fanfare.

What are triplets?

300
Tutti
What is everyone playing?
300
A small ending section
What is a codetta?
300
The type of voice used in the piece
What is soprano?
300
A small slide in pitch away from a note and back again
What is a pitch bend?
300

Three ways to describe the harmony.

 Diatonic

 Key of C minor

 Modal 

 Chord sequences are repetitive

 Hint of chromaticism

 Use of extended chords (7th, 9th)

 Slow harmonic pulse

 Use of drone.

300

The term for the slowing down at the ends of sections.

What is rallentando?

300

The three performance forces used in the piece

What are female voice, acoustic guitar, and acoustic bass guitar?

300

Three dynamics used in the piece.

What are crescendo, diminuendo, fortissimo, mezzo forte, pianissimo, piano
400
Hard to play.
What is virtuoso?
400
The technique used in bars 93-98 when the hands move in opposite directions
What is contrary motion?
400
The main texture of this piece
What is homophonic texture?
400
The vocal technique used in the chorus?
What is parallel harmony?
400

Two African and two Celtic instruments used.

What are...

African forces: kora, talking drum

Celtic forces: hurdy-gurdy, uilleann pipes, bodhrán, fiddle, whistle, accordion

400

2 time signatures used in this piece

What are 3/2, 2/2, and briefly 4/4?

400

A minor tenth.

What is the range of the vocal register?
400

The name for the harmony in the fanfare that consists of fourths, not thirds.

What is quartal harmony?

500
The end of section A when the two fugues overlap to form an imitative texture.
What is stretto?
500
The elongation of a rhythm/note
What is rhythmic augmentation?
500
When two different forms of the same note occur together or in close proximity
What is false relation?
500
The glissando/portamento on the word 'queen'
What is an example of word painting in the piece?
500

Three playing techniques used by the instruments.

What are glissandos/ornamentation/double stopping/open and closed hi-hat?

500

The texture at the end of the piece. 

What is contrapuntal?
500

Three harmonic features of the piece.

What are extended chords, chromatic chords, diminished seventh (b. 35), flattened fifth (b. 44), primary chords (I, IV, V)

500

Four melodic features of the piece.

What are: anacrusis, conjunct, disjunct, features interval of a P5, sequence, uses tonic and dominant notes, repetition, fanfare-like, staccato and legato articulation, use of leitmotif