| 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 |