Test 2

Question 1

What does moderato mean?

Answer 1

Moderately

Question 2

What does accelerando mean?

Answer 2

Getting faster

Question 3

What does prestissimo mean?

Answer 3

As fast as possible

Question 4

What does allegro mean?

Answer 4

Fast

Question 5

What does largo mean?

Answer 5

Slow

Question 6

What does presto mean?

Answer 6

Very fast

Question 7

What does vivace mean?

Answer 7

Fast (full of life)

Question 8

What does Ritardando mean?

Answer 8

Holding back (slowing down)

Question 9

What does con spirito mean?

Answer 9

With spirit

Question 10

What does con forza mean?

Answer 10

With strength

Question 11

What does andante mean?

Answer 11

A walking pace (slower)

Question 12

What does adagio mean?

Answer 12

Slow tempo (especially as a direction)

Question 13

What does forte mean?

Answer 13

Loud

Question 14

What does piano mean?

Answer 14

Soft

Question 15

What does diminuendo mean?

Answer 15

To get softer

Question 16

What does crescendo mean?

Answer 16

Get louder

Question 17

What does decrescendo mean?

Answer 17

Get softer

Question 18

What does Mezo mean?

Answer 18

Medium sound

Question 19

What does subito mean?

Answer 19

Suddenly

Question 20

What does pianissimo mean?

Answer 20

Very softly

Question 21

What does forte piano mean?

Answer 21

Loud and then suddenly soft

Question 22

What does sforzando mean?

Answer 22

Forcing tone, accent

Question 23

What does the top number of a time signature tell you?

Answer 23

How many beats in a measure

Question 24

What does the bottom number of a time signature tell you?

Answer 24

What note gets the beat

Question 25

What is a scale?

Answer 25

Pitches in ascending or descending order

Question 26

What is diatonic?

Answer 26

Across the tone (belong to the scale)

Question 27

What is non diatonic?

Answer 27

Does not belong to the scale

Question 28

What is folk rock?

Answer 28

Rock music with heavy influences from English folk and American folk music. Tends to be more respectful of tradition.

Question 29

How is Woody Guthrie’s song, this land is your land a protest song?

Answer 29

Woody viewed folk music as protest. A lot of people weren’t feeling blessed - in reaction to god bless America.

Question 30

Why did the audience riot at the premier of the rite of spring?

Answer 30

Audience didn’t know what was happening. Upset at the dissonance and jerky movements.

Question 31

What is idiophone?

Answer 31

The sound is produced by the instrument body. Example - triangle

Question 32

What is aerophone?

Answer 32

Sound comes from the air columns vibrating. Example - saxophone

Question 33

What is chordophone?

Answer 33

Sound produced by vibrating string. Example - violin

Question 34

What is membraneophone?

Answer 34

Sound is produced by vibrating skin. Example - snare drum

Question 35

What is the first note of a scale called?

Answer 35

Tonic

Question 36

What is the seventh note of the scale called?

Answer 36

Leading tone

Question 37

How many forms of MINOR scales are there? What are their names?

Answer 37

Three scales. Natural minor, harmonic minor, molatic minor

Question 38

What event may have indirectly led to the popularity of the Beatles in the United States?

Answer 38

The assassination of JFK

Question 39

Why did some people consider Luke Combs’ cover of fast car to be controversial?

Answer 39

A white male singing a black woman’s song. It was controversial because of gender roles.

Question 40

What was so different about the Beach Boys’ good vibrations compared to other pop songs?

Answer 40

Their songs are not predictable