Music Year 8 Winter Exams

Question 1

What is the heartbeat of music

Answer 1

Beat
Pulse

Question 2

Pitch

Answer 2

High/low

Question 3

Fast
Slow

Answer 3

Allergo
Adagio

Question 4

Soft or loud

Answer 4

Dynamics

Question 5

Words for
Soft
Loud

Answer 5

Piano
Forte

Question 6

Semi brief

Answer 6

4 beats

Question 7

Minim

Answer 7

2

Question 8

Crotchet

Answer 8

1

Question 9

Quaver

Answer 9

1/2

Question 10

Smooth/detached

Answer 10

Articulation

Question 11

Texture

Answer 11

Thick
Thin

Question 12

Timbre

Answer 12

Wood/metal/reed/skin/strings/woodwind/brass/percussion

Question 13

Pizzacato

Answer 13

Plucking the strings

Question 14

Glissando

Answer 14

Sliding up and down the notes

Question 15

Death heels on the tombstones (footsteps)
What two instruments do we hear
What musical word is used to describe plucking the strings

Answer 15

Chellow, double base
Pizzacato

Question 16

The rattle of the skeletons bones
What is the difference between a glockenspiel and a xylophone

Answer 16

Glockenspiel is metal
Xylophone is wood

Question 17

The skeletons dance faster and faster as time runs out
What other 4 percussion do we hear

Answer 17

Timpani
Triangle
Base drum
Gongs

Question 18

Now dawn has arrived the cockerel crows
Which instrument imitates the cry of the cockerel as dawn breaks

Answer 18

Oboe woodwind