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Other Music Quiz: Musical Terms | 10 Questions

Can you tell your Sonatas from your Chorales? I give you a definition, you click on the correct musical term to describe that definition. Surely it can't be that simple...

A multiple-choice quiz by jr2k2. Estimated time: 3 mins.

Author
jr2k2

Time
3 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
201,292

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

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2096

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Question 1 of 10

1. Name the musical term for the definition "A point of repose at the end of a phrase". Hint

Chorale

Cantata

Cadence

Cadenza

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Question 2 of 10

2. What would be written to tell the musician to play "Sweetly and Softly"? Hint

Courante

Nocturne

Musette

Dolce

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Question 3 of 10

3. This word is an indicative to perform the directed passage "with expression". Hint

Ausdrucksvoll

Quadrille

Obbligato

Tutee

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Question 4 of 10

4. What is the musical term to indicate a "Moderate Tempo or Walking Pace"? Hint

Andante

Presto

Largo

Allegro

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Question 5 of 10

5. There is a musical word for "two melodic ideas playing simultaneously", but can you name it? Hint

Glissando

Capriccio

Counterpoint

Fermeta

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Question 6 of 10

6. What is the musical term which would tell you to play something "with movement"? Hint

Legato

con moto

Refrain

Rubato

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Question 7 of 10

7. What is "a specific scale or series of notes defining a particular tonality"? Hint

Key

System

Sequence

Tessitura

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Question 8 of 10

8. What would be written to tell a musician to do something "little by little"? Hint

Scherzo

Poco a poco

Tremelo

Vivace

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Question 9 of 10

9. This term would be written to tell a violinist to play something with the bow as a contrast to pizzicato? Hint

Vibrato

Arco

Consonance

Da Capo

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Question 10 of 10

10. Name the instrumental form generally consisting of 3 sections - exposition, development and recapitulation. Hint

Etude

Canon

Sonata

Chorale

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Name the musical term for the definition "A point of repose at the end of a phrase".

Answer: Cadence

There are four main types of cadences: Plagal, Interrupted, Perfect and Imperfect.

2. What would be written to tell the musician to play "Sweetly and Softly"?

Answer: Dolce

Courante is a piece of music written in triple time, Musette is a baroque dance with a drone bass and Nocturne is a musical composition with nocturnal associations.

3. This word is an indicative to perform the directed passage "with expression".

Answer: Ausdrucksvoll

Ausdrucksvoll is a German term if you had not already gathered this.

4. What is the musical term to indicate a "Moderate Tempo or Walking Pace"?

Answer: Andante

Largo, Allegro and Presto are all markings of tempo, Largo being the slowest and Presto being the fastest (about 240BPM)

5. There is a musical word for "two melodic ideas playing simultaneously", but can you name it?

Answer: Counterpoint

Another word for this would be polyphony.

6. What is the musical term which would tell you to play something "with movement"?

Answer: con moto

Almost a literal translation...

7. What is "a specific scale or series of notes defining a particular tonality"?

Answer: Key

Sequence can be described as "successive repetition of a phrase at different pitches", System is the combination of two or more staves on which the notes are vertically aligned, and Tessitura is the range of an instrumental or vocal part.

8. What would be written to tell a musician to do something "little by little"?

Answer: Poco a poco

Again, very much a literal translation.

9. This term would be written to tell a violinist to play something with the bow as a contrast to pizzicato?

Answer: Arco

This, as you would expect applies to bowed instruments. Da Capo is an instruction for the repetition of the beginning of the piece before stopping on its final chord , Vibrato being a technique giving a rapid variation in pitch of a note and Consonance being the opposite of Dissonance.

10. Name the instrumental form generally consisting of 3 sections - exposition, development and recapitulation.

Answer: Sonata

Each movement differs in rhythm, melody and tempo but their style and subject hold them together.

Source: Author jr2k2

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