Terms

Question 1

Chordophone and example

Answer 1

A stringed instrument, Kora

Question 2

Membranphone and example

Answer 2

drum with a skin stretched over it, Djembe

Question 3

Staccato

Answer 3

Short and detached

Question 4

Semibreve

Answer 4

Whole note, 4 beats

Question 5

Minim

Answer 5

Half note, 2 beats

Question 6

1 beat note

Answer 6

Crochet, quarter note

Question 7

Quaver

Answer 7

eighth note, 1/2 note

Question 8

Semiquaver

Answer 8

Sixteenth note, 1/4 beats

Question 9

The top number on the time signature means…

Answer 9

how many beats in the bar

Question 10

The bottom number on the time signature means…

Answer 10

what type of beat they are

Question 11

Does a time signature indicate tempo

Answer 11

No

Question 12

Is 44 faster or slower then 24, Explain

Answer 12

No, because the time signature only tell us how many beats in the bar

Question 13

what is a curved line joining two notes on different pitches?

Answer 13

Slur

Question 14

What is a curved line joining two notes on the same pitch? what does it do?

Answer 14

Tie, it connects the notes together

Question 15

Legato

Answer 15

Smoothly

Question 16

Crescendo

Answer 16

Gradually getting louder

Question 17

Decrescendo

Answer 17

Gradually getting quieter

Question 18

F means

Answer 18

Forte

Question 19

Very loud

Answer 19

Fortissimo

Question 20

What is an incomplete bar at the beginning called

Answer 20

Anacrusis

Question 21

How high or low a note is

Answer 21

Pitch

Question 22

sharp

Answer 22

raises a note by a semitone

Question 23

Flat

Answer 23

lowers a note by a semitone

Question 24

semitone

Answer 24

the closest distance between two notes (flat or sharp)

Question 25

Tone

Answer 25

raises the note by 2 semitones (1 note)

Question 26

Range

Answer 26

the distance between the lowest and highest note

Question 27

Chord

Answer 27

two or more pitches played at the same time

Question 28

Tie

Answer 28

a curve line that joins two note values together (must be on the same line)

Question 29

Slur

Answer 29

Smoothly connects notes (must be on different lines)

Question 30

Adagio

Answer 30

Slowly

Question 31

Andante

Answer 31

at a walking pace

Question 32

Allegro

Answer 32

Fast and lively

Question 33

polyrhythm

Answer 33

two or more different rhythms playing simutaniously

Question 34

electronic sounds

Answer 34

computer generated sounds

Question 35

acoustic sounds

Answer 35

natural sound

Question 36

pianissimo

Answer 36

pp, very soft

Question 37

p

Answer 37

piano, soft

Question 38

forte

Answer 38

f, loud

Question 39

ff

Answer 39

fortissimo, very loud

Question 40

legato

Answer 40

smoothly and well connected

Question 41

staccato

Answer 41

short and detached`

Question 42

accent

Answer 42

to place emphasis on a note

Question 43

call and response

Answer 43

one instrument or group starts a music idea (call) and it is responded to somehow by another instrument or group

Question 44

Ostinato

Answer 44

a short repeated pattern

Question 45

Unity

Answer 45

anything in a piece of music which is repeated or stays the same

Question 46

Contrast

Answer 46

Anything in a piece of music that is different or changes

Question 47

Introduction

Answer 47

the beginning section of a piece of music

Question 48

Coda

Answer 48

the ending section of a piece of music

Question 49

Anacrusis

Answer 49

an incomplete bar at the beginning of a piece

Question 50

Accidental

Answer 50

when a flat, sharp or natural is not stated on the key signature