Questions |
Answers |
The distance between the lowest and highest tones of a melody, an instrument, or a voice is called melody. |
False |
The resting places in a musical phrase, or the music punctuation is called cadences. |
True |
The highness or lowness of a tone, depending on the frequency is the sound. |
False |
A musical symbol denoting pitch and duration is decibel. |
False |
Basic units of time in music are called beats. |
True |
Three or more pitches built from a particular scale is a chord. |
True |
Pitch is the relative highness or lowness that we hear in a sound. |
True |
Tone is a sound that has a definite pitch. |
True |
Contour is the distance in pitch between any two tones. |
False |
Rhythm is the flow of music through time. |
True |
A meter is an organization of beats into regular groups. |
True |
The speed of the beat, the basic pace of the music is referred to as tempo. |
True |
A staff is a set of five horizontal lines. |
True |
A repetition of a melodic pattern at a higher or lower pitch is called sequence. |
True |
The way chords are constructed and how they follow each other is called texture. |
False |
Mozart is the most gifted child prodigy ever, rebelled against the patronage system and struggled to achieve financial independence. Died while composing "Requiem Mass." |
True |
John Williams composed Schindler's List, Superman, Harry Potter, and Star Wars. |
True |
The Italian opera composer who was a versimo composer and known for composing "Madame Butterfly" is Giacomo Puccini. |
True |
Richard Wagner was a German opera composer who wrote "Ride of the Valkyries," and "The Ring of the Nibelung." |
True |
"The Nutcracker" is Russian ballet by Peter Tchaikovsky where a young girl receives a nutcracker as a Christmas gift and dreams of exotic people and places. |
True |
Hector Berlioz was a Polish composer who wrote "Mazurkas" and compositions mostly centered around the piano. |
False |
Peter Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer who wrote symphonies and ballets including "The Nutcracker." |
True |
Stephen Foster composed "Oh! Susanna," "Camptown Races," and "I dream of Jeannie with Light Brown Hair." |
True |
Music moved from the palace to the concert hall during the Romantic Era. |
True |
Syncopation was the element of music used in ragtime. |
True |