Music Appreciation Quiz 5

Rhythms

100

This note is worth 4 beats.

Whole note

200

This rest is worth 4 beats.

Whole rest

300

This note is worth 2 beats.

Half note

400

This rest is worth 1 beat.

Quarter rest

500

This rest is worth 1/2 a beat.

Eighth rest

Notes on the Staff

100

What is the word or phrase used to remember the names of the spaces on the treble clef?

FACE

200

What is the word or phrase used to remember the names of the spaces on the bass clef?

All Cows Eat Grass

300

What is the word or phrase used to remember the names of the lines on the treble clef?

Every Good Boy Does Fine (or other phrase spelling EGBDF)

400

What is the word or phrase used to remember the names of the lines on the bass clef?

Good Boys Do Fine Always (or other phrase spelling GBDFA)

500

What note falls on the third line of the bass clef?

D

Music History

100

This composer wrote nine symphonies and became deaf towards the end of his life.

Ludwig van Beethoven

200

This musical period, the third in classical music history, lasted from 1600-1750 and was named after the Portuguese word for "pearl."

Baroque Period

300

The "King of Rag," this composer and pianist wrote "The Entertainer" and "Maple Leaf Rag."

Scott Joplin

400

Austrian composer of "The Erlking," German Lieder, and a Christmas favorite, "Ave Maria."

Franz Schubert

500

The "March King," this composer led the Marine Band and wrote America's National March, "The Stars and Stripes Forever."

John Philip Sousa

Music Vocabulary

100

This word refers to how loud or soft the music is.

Dynamics

200

These 7-tone sequences of notes appear in major and minor forms.

Scales

300

This term appears as duple or triple

Meter

400

To play without written music; to make something up as one goes along.

Improvisation

500

Tone quality, or tone color.

Timbre

Christmas Music

100

Finish this lyric:

"Chestnuts roasting on an open fire..."

"Jack frost nipping at your nose."

200

Finish the lyric:

"I don't want a lot for Christmas..."

"There is just one thing I need," or "This is all I'm asking for."

300

Finish this lyric:

"Candles burning low
Lots of mistletoe
Lots of snow and ice..."

"Everywhere we go."

400

This suite, composed by Tchaikovsky," includes the piece, "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy."

"The Nutcracker Suite"

500

This religious piece, composed by Franz Schubert, features words in Latin.  It is sung year-round, but is also popular at Christmas.

"Ave Maria"