Questions of Music

Question 1

What does the TOP note in a time signature indicate?

Answer 1

How many beats per measure

Question 2

What does the BOTTOM note in a time signature indicate?

Answer 2

What type of note gets the beat

Question 3

Write out the solfege for a major scale.

Answer 3

Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti, Do

Question 4

Define a fermata, What does it look like?

Answer 4

Means: Hold the note until the conductor cuts it off.

Look Like: Has a rainbow line shape and a dot below it. Like Polyphemous upside down basically. (Odysseus reference)

Question 5

What is a diphthong?

Answer 5

Two vowels in one (combined in one)

Question 6

What does subito mean?

Answer 6

Suddenly (when you suddenly go into piano for example)

Question 7

What is the quietest dynamic? The loudest?

Answer 7

Quietest: pianissimo
Loudest: fortissimo

Question 8

Rewrite the dynamics for quietest to loudest.

Answer 8

pianissimo, piano, mezzo piano, mezzo forte, forte, fortissimo

Question 9

Time Signature: What do you write when it has 4 notes sticked together?

Answer 9

1 e + a

Question 10

Time Signature: What do you write when there is silent note yk?

Answer 10

(1)

Question 11

Time Signature: What do you write when it has two notes connected?

Answer 11

1 +

Question 12

Time Signature: What do you write when it is a half note?

Answer 12

1(2)

Question 13

Time Signature: What do you write for a whole note?

Answer 13

1

Question 14

Time Signature: What do you write for a half note and a dot?

Answer 14

1(23)