What are the four types of triads
Major, Minor, Diminished, and Augmented
In music theory, what term describes the immediate restatement of a melodic or harmonic pattern at a different pitch level, usually moving stepwise up or down?
Ostinato
Imitation
Sequence
Canon
Which world-famous Mississippi musician’s 100th birthday would have been this year??
B. B. King
List the Binary Forms
Simple, Rounded, Balanced
Which describes rounded binary form?
ABA three-part
Continuous improv
B ends with A’s opening material
Two sections, no return
Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven are key composers of the Classical era. True/False
True
The Classical era in Western music emphasized clarity, balance, and ______.
Dissonance
Improvisation
Form
Emotion
When a singer produces a higher pitch, what do the vocal folds do?
They lengthen and tighten
They shorten and loosen
They thicken and relax
They stop vibrating altogether
Which laryngeal cartilage takes its name from the Greek word for “shield”?
Cricoid cartilage
Epiglottis
Thyroid cartilage
Arytenoid cartilage
In Italian diction for classical singing, how are most double consonants (like ll or tt) pronounced?
Silently, letting only the vowel ring
By adding a glottal stop before the consonant
As a single quick consonant
With a slight pause and a longer, more sustained consonant s
Franz Schubert’s music belongs to which historical period of Western classical music?
Classical
Modern
Romantic
Baroque
In French diction, what is the usual pronunciation of an unaccented “e” in a word?
[ə] (schwa)
[e] (closed)
[ɛ] (open)
[o] (closed)
What is the main difference between a major scale and its relative melodic minor scale?
Lowers the 3rd, 6th, and 7th degrees
Raises the 6th and 7th degrees by a half step when ascending
Starts on the fifth note of the major scale
Uses only five different notes
What is the main difference between a major scale and its relative harmonic minor scale?
Raises the 7th pitch/degree
Lowers the 3rd and 6th degrees and also lowers the 7th.
Starts on the fifth note of the major scale
Uses only five different notes
What is the main difference between a major scale and its relative natural minor scale?
Uses only five different notes.
Starts on the fifth note of the major
Raises the 4th and 7th degrees
Keeps the same accidentals
How many main types of minor scales are commonly used in Western classical music? Name them
4 - Blues, Pentatonic, Dorian, Phrygian
3 — the natural, harmonic, melodic
2 - Dorian and Phrygian
