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
Canon
Sequence
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?
B ends with A’s opening material
ABA three-part
Continuous improv
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
Emotion
Improvisation
Form
When a singer produces a higher pitch, what do the vocal folds do?
They shorten and loosen
They lengthen and tighten
They thicken and relax
They stop vibrating altogether
Which laryngeal cartilage takes its name from the Greek word for “shield”?
Cricoid cartilage
Arytenoid cartilage
Epiglottis
Thyroid cartilage
In Italian diction for classical singing, how are most double consonants (like ll or tt) pronounced?
As a single quick consonant
With a slight pause and a longer, more sustained consonant s
By adding a glottal stop before the consonant
Silently, letting only the vowel ring
Franz Schubert’s music belongs to which historical period of Western classical music?
Romantic
Modern
Classical
Baroque
In French diction, what is the usual pronunciation of an unaccented “e” in a word?
[o] (closed)
[e] (closed)
[ɛ] (open)
[ə] (schwa)
What is the main difference between a major scale and its relative melodic minor scale?
Uses only five different notes
Raises the 6th and 7th degrees by a half step when ascending
Lowers the 3rd, 6th, and 7th degrees
Starts on the fifth note of the major scale
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.
Uses only five different notes
Starts on the fifth note of the major scale
What is the main difference between a major scale and its relative natural minor scale?
Raises the 4th and 7th degrees
Keeps the same accidentals
Starts on the fifth note of the major
Uses only five different notes.
How many main types of minor scales are commonly used in Western classical music? Name them
4 - Blues, Pentatonic, Dorian, Phrygian
2 - Dorian and Phrygian
3 — the natural, harmonic, melodic
