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John Williams – Hedwig’s Theme

Listen to this example and answer the following questions:

1. Give letter names to the notes in this example. 2. What rhythmic feature does this piece begin with? ____________ 3. What is the key of the music? __________ 4. How long does the last ‘e’ in this piece last? 5. Complete bars 9-10. 6. The notes in bars 11-12, 19-20 and 27-28 descend chromatically.

Complete these bars. 7. What is the interval of the notes in brackets in bars 13-14.

Interval: ______________

8. What keyboard instrument plays the melody at the beginning of this example? Instrument: __________________

9. The string family enter in bar 9. What two ways are these instruments played? _______________ and _______________

10. What instrument takes over the melody in the upbeat to bar 17? Instrument: ___________________

11. At the end of the first section the string instruments use a method of playing called _________________. This leads to a_________ note, over which the original keyboard instrument re-enters. The violins follow this playing _____________ scales.

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John Williams – Jurrasic Park

Listen to this example and answer the following questions:

1. Give letter names to the notes in this example. Note the use of the bass clef.

2. What is the key of the music? 3. Complete bars 10-15. 4. Circle any two examples of notes in this example which are a

semitone apart. 5. What chord do the first three notes in bar 5 spell?

Chord I Chord IV Chord V 6. Add an accidental to the note marked ‘x’ in bar 20 to correct it’s

pitch. 7. Bars 8-9 provide an example of a/an _______________ cadence.

8. The instrument which opens the piece is the ________________. 9. A word to describe the texture of the music is _______________. 10. A word to describe how the instruments are played is

_______________.

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Tchaikovsky – Sleeping Beauty Waltz Listen to this example and answer the following questions:

1. Give letter names to the notes in this example. Note the use of the bass clef.

2. What is the key of the music? ________________ 3. Complete bars 17-24. 4. Circle three consecutive notes in the second line which move

chromatically. 5. Circle two notes which are a 5th apart. 6. What rhythmic feature is created in bars 25-30? ______________ 7. A dynamic marking for the first chord is __________________.

The percussion instrument which features at the start of this example is called the _______________.

8. Listen to the violins at the start of this example. The music creates an ascending _______________. The brass then enter under a/an ________________________ on the flutes. The music slows down before the main tune (as shown in the music above) enters on the strings. This slowing of tempo is called a/an ______________________.

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Tchaikovsky – Swan Lake Listen to this example and answer the following questions:

1. Give letter names to the notes in this example. 2. What is the key of the music? _______________ 3. Complete bars 2, 6 and 9. 4. Circle two notes which are a 5th apart. 5. What chord do the notes in brackets in bar 3 spell? ___________ 6. Transpose bars 7 and 8 into the bass clef.

7. The method of playing the strings at the start of the excerpt is called ________________. A harp plays a series of _____________________ while the ____________ plays this melody. The melody is later passed to the ___________ family while a _____________ plays a roll before the string family take over the melody.

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Bizet – Carmen Overture Listen to this example and answer the following questions:

1. Give letter names to the notes in this example. 2. What is the key of the music? _______________ 3. Complete bars 9-12. 4. Circle two examples of octave leaps. 5. Write the missing ornament in bars 4, 8 and 12. 6. What would be an appropriate dynamic marking for this

example? ______________ 7. Bar 4 provides an example of a/an ________________ cadence

whereas bar 16 provides an example of a/an ___________ cadence.

8. How long does the rest in bar 16 last? _____ beat/s 9. Add a repeat sign where appropriate.

10. Two percussion instruments which feature at the start of this

piece are the ________________ and _________________. The ___________ family have the melody playing ________ (method of playing). The mood of the music changes at bar 17 where the music _______________ to a _________ key (the ____________ minor) before bars 1-16 are repeated. The music is then written in ____________ ( ____ ) form.

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Grieg - Morning Listen to this example and answer the following questions:

1. Give letter names to the notes in this example. 2. What is the key of the music? _______________ What is the relative minor of this key signature? _____________ 3. Is the music written in simple or compound time?

_______________ time 4. Complete bars 5-8. 5. What is the name of the ornament features in the opening phrase?

Ornament: _______________ Note: This ornament is later repeated in this example.

6. What chord do the notes of bars 19 and 20 spell? Chord I Chord IV Chord V

7. The opening of this piece features ___________ and ____________ between two woodwind instruments – the ____________ and the _______________.

8. The ______________ (type of percussion instrument) enters at bar 20 before the ____________ family take over the melody. A word to describe the texture of the music is _________________.

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Carmen – Entr’acte Listen to this example and answer the following questions:

1. Give letter names to the notes in this example. 2. What is the key of the music? _______________ What is the relative minor of this key signature? _____________ 3. Complete the notes in bar 7. 4. Circle one example of two consecutive notes which are a 4th

apart. 5. How long do the notes marked ‘x,’ ‘y’ and ‘z’ last for?

x: _____ beat/s y: _____ beat/s z: _____ beat/s 6. Is the time signature correct? ____________ 7. What is the name of the ornament heard on note ‘y’ (bar 4)?

Ornament: __________________ Write this into the music. Where else does this ornament appear? Bar ________.

8. Transpose bars 5 and 6 into the bass clef.

9. A harp plays a series of _________________ at the start of this excerpt. A solo _________ plays the melody playing _____________. There is some ‘give and take’ in the rhythm which is called _____________. The melody is then passed to the ______________ while this instrument goes on to play a ________________. The ornament heard at the end of this second section is called a __________.

x

y z

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Brahms – Hungarian Dance no.5 Listen to this example and answer the following questions:

1. What is the key of the music? _______________ What is the relative major of this key signature? _____________ 2. Complete bars 13-14. This is an example of a ________________

_________________. 3. Complete bars 21-24. This is also an example of a ____________

_________________. 4. What chord do the first three notes spell?

Chord I Chord IV Chord V 5. There is a change of tempo at bar ____. A word to describe this

new tempo is _____________. A rhythmic feature of this bar of the music is _____________ rhythms.

6. A word to describe the style of accompaniment at the beginning of the example is a __________.

7. How long does the rest marked in bar 29 last? ______ beat

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West Side Story - Tonight Listen to this example and answer the following questions:

1. Give letter names to the notes in this example. Note the use of the bass clef.

2. What is the key of the music? _______________ What is the relative minor of this key signature? _____________ 3. Complete bars 25-27. 4. Complete the missing note from bar 30. 5. What is the name of the highest note in the piece? 6. How long does the ‘a’ in bar 23 last? ______ beats 7. How long does the rest in bar 19 last? _____ beats

8. This piece is a duet written for a ___________ and a __________

(types of voice). The accompaniment features ______________ rhythms. The music modulates in bar _____ before returning to the original key in bar _____. In bars 16-23 the strings play in __________ with the singer.

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John Williams - Hedwig’s Theme 2 Listen to this example and answer the following questions:

1. Give letter names to the notes in this example. Note the use of the bass clef.

2. The first four notes in bar 3 move chromatically. Complete this bar.

3. Complete the missing note from bar 30. 4. What is the name of the highest note in the piece? 5. The music is mainly played staccato. Add staccato marking to the

notes in bar 1 to indicate this. 6. What type of chord does the notes bracketed in bars 8-9 spell?

Dominant 7th Diminished Augmented

7. Place a circle around two notes which are a 4th apart. 8. What is the solo instrument in this example? ________________

What other instruments are playing? _______________________ ____________________________________________________

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Bill Whelan - Riverdance Listen to this example and answer the following questions:

1. Give letter names to the notes in this example. 2. What is the key of the music? __________________

What is the relative minor of this key? ________________ 3. Complete bars 5 -8. 4. What rhythmic effect is created in bars 9 and 14?

__________________ 5. What type of cadence does bar 16 end with? ________________ 6. Transpose bar 14 into the bass clef.

7. This is an example of a ___________ (type of dance) written in ___________ time for ____________ (type of instrument). An

appropriate tempo marking would be _______________ (Italian term).

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Smetana - Vltava Listen to this example and answer the following questions:

1. Give letter names to the notes in this example. 2. What is the key of the music? __________________

What is the relative minor of this key? ________________ 3. Circle the anacrusis in this example. 4. Write the time signature of the piece. 5. Place an x over two notes between bars 14-22 where you hear

diminished chords. 6. In what bar does the music modulate? Bar _____ 7. Write a repeat sign where appropriate. 8. Transpose bars 14-15 into the bass clef.

9. This piece was written by the Nationalist composer Smetana and describes the flow of the Vltava, the longest river in the Czech Republic. It is an example of a _______/_____________ poem.

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John Williams – E.T.

Listen to this example and answer the following questions:

1. Give letter names to the notes in this example. 2. What is the key of the music? __________________

What is the relative minor of this key? ________________ 3. What is the name of the highest note in this example? _________ 4. How long does the last note in the printed example last?

________ beat/s 5. Bars 1-8 are played staccato while the melody from bar 9 is

played legato. Write the appropriate markings in bar 1 and bars 9- 10 to indicate this.

6. Draw a circle around two consecutive notes which are a 6th apart. 7. In which two bars do we find consecutive notes which are an

octave apart? Bars _____ and _____ 8. Transpose bars 6-7 into the bass clef.

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Schubert – Ave Maria Listen to this example and answer the following questions:

1. Give letter names to the notes in this example. 2. What is the key of the music? __________________

What is the relative minor of this key? ________________ 3. What type of chord does the notes bracketed in bar 20 spell?

Dominant 7th Diminished Augmented

4. How long does the rest in bar 6 last? ______ beats 5. How long does the first note in this example last? _______ beats 6. Bars 26-27 feature what type of rhythms?

__________________ rhythms 7. The guitar accompaniment features a series of _______________

which are played _________________ (method of playing). The rhythm of this accompaniment pattern features ______________. The singer (Stevie Wonder) is a ______________ (type of voice).

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Les mis – A Little Fall of Rain

Listen to this example and answer the following questions:

1. Give letter names to the notes in this example. Note the use of the bass clef.

2. What is the key of the music? __________________ What is the relative minor of this key? ________________

3. What type of chord do you hear on the note marked ‘x’ in bar 3?

Dominant 7th Diminished Augmented 4. How long does the rest in bar 8 last? ______ beats 5. Write an appropriate tempo marking in the music.

6. This song is a duet written for a ____________ and a

_____________ (types of voice). The accompaniment features a series of _______________ on guitar. The music ______________ when the male voice enters. The form of the song is ______________.

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West Side Story - America

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Listen to this example and answer the following questions:

1. Give letter names to the notes in this example. Note the use of the bass clef.

2. What is the key of the music? __________________ What is the relative minor of this key? ________________

3. Write the time signature in the music. 4. What rhythmic feature is found throughout this piece?

____________________________ 5. What does the line in bar 8 between the first and second notes

indicate?_____________________________________________ 6. What does the sign above the notes in bars 14, 15, 19, 21 and 30

mean? _______________________________________________ 7. What is the name of the ornament in bar 22? ________________ 8. In what bar do we find only the notes of a C major chord?

Bar _________ 9. In what bar do we find only the notes of an F major chord?

Bar _________ 10. What type of chord is spelt in bar 22?

Dominant 7th Diminished Augmented

11. Put a bracket around one example of a sequence in the printed

music. 12. Transpose bars 13-14 into the bass clef.

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General Revision 1 - Instruments and Methods of Playing

1. Provide definitions for the following concepts: Col legno ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ Harmonics ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ Vibrato ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ Glissando ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ Tremolando ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ Double stopping ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ Con sordino ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________

2. What is ‘flutter tonguing’? What instruments can use this effect? _______________________________________________________________

3. Can all instruments use vibrato? _______________________________________________________________

4. A celeste can play tremolo. True or false? ___________________________ 5. Which brass instrument can play a glissando most effectively? Why?

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

6. What style of music is a slide guitar associated with? _______________________________________________________________

7. What ways can a slide guitar be played? _______________________________________________________________

8. What style of music is a fretless bass guitar associated with? _______________________________________________________________

9. What effect can a fretless bass guitar easily achieve? _______________________________________________________________

10. What is the difference between tuned and unturned percussion? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

11. What is the difference between a brass band and a military/wind band? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

12. What does a celeste sound like? _____________________________________ _______________________________________________________________

13. What is a synthesiser? ____________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________

14. Name three ways you can play the acoustic, electric and bass guitar. ________ _______________________________________________________________

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General Revision 2 - Blues and Jazz

1. What is Dixieland Jazz? How does it differ to a Swing Band? _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________

2. Describe the style Boogie Woogie. _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________

3. What is a Blues Scale? Why is this scale important in Blues and Jazz music? _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________

4. How would you describe soul music? _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________

5. How would you describe country music? What instruments are associated with this style? _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________

6. How many different chords are used in a 12 bar blues? __________________ 7. What is meant by the term ‘improvisation’?

_______________________________________________________________ 8. What is meant by the term ‘walking bass’?

_______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________

9. What instrument is ‘ragtime’ associated with? _________________________ 10. What is meant by a ‘vamp’?

_______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________

11. How would you describe the Blues? _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________

12. What is ‘Jazz Funk?’ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________

13. What is ‘scat singing’? _______________________________________________________________

14. What is a swing/big band? _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________

15. What styles of music use syncopated rhythms? _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________

16. What is meant by the electronic term ‘reverb’? _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________

17. What is meant by the electronic term ‘delay’? _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________

18. What is meant by the electronic term ‘distortion’? _______________________________________________________________

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General Revision 3 - Vocal Music

1. Place these voice types in order of the lowest to the highest sounding voice: Tenor, Soprano, Counter-tenor, Baritone, Bass, Mezzo-soprano, Alto

_______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________

2. What is meant by the term ‘choral music’? _______________________________________________________________

3. What is the difference between singing in unison and singing in harmony? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. What is meant by the term ‘descant’? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. What is a round? Provide an example of a famous round. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

6. What is another word for unaccompanied vocal music? __________________ 7. What is a chorus? ________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________ 8. What is an ensemble? _____________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________ 9. What is the difference between strophic and through composed?

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

10. What is a middle eight? What style of music is a middle eight associated with? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

11. Name the two ways that words can be set to music. What is the difference between these two ways? __________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________

12. Homophonic means that the parts move at different times. True or false? ____ 13. The difference between homophonic and polyphonic vocal music is that

homophonic music uses the same words but polyphonic music uses different words. True or false? __________

14. What is ‘word setting’? ___________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________

15. What is an aria? _________________________________________________ 16. What is a recitative? ______________________________________________ 17. What is a chorale? _______________________________________________ 18. The cantata, Passion and Mass are all types of oratorio. True or false? ______ 19. Name three styles of music found in an opera. _________________________

_______________________________________________________________ 20. Name four styles of music found in an oratorio. ________________________

_______________________________________________________________ 21. What is an overture? ______________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________ 22. What is an obbligato? _____________________________________________

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General Revision 4 – World Music

1. Name 4 Scottish instruments. _______________________________________ 2. What instruments are found in a Pipe Band? ___________________________ 3. What instruments are found in a Scottish Dance Band?

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. Complete the following tables which refer to Scottish dances and vocal styles.

5. What is a Slow Air? ______________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________ 6. What type of scale is associated with Scottish music? ____________________ 7. What is a Scotch Snap? ___________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________ 8. What is meant by the term ‘pibroch?’ ________________________________

_______________________________________________________________ 9. Complete this sentence: The difference between SAMBA and SALSA is

_________________ has a tune but ______________ does not have a tune. 10. What instrument from South America is usually accompanied by a guitar?

_______________________________________________________________ 11. How do you play the STEEL DRUMS? ______________________________ 12. How would you describe GAMELAN? ______________________________

_______________________________________________________________ 13. What two instruments are associated with India? _______________________ 14. What is a GHANAIAN DRUM ENSEMBLE? ________________________

_______________________________________________________________ 15. What style of music does a LATIN PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE play? ____

_______________________________________________________________

Name of Dance Number of beats in a bar

Tempo (speed) Other

March 4 Often played by a pipe band

Waltz Moderato Strong first beat of the bar

Strathspey 4

Reel 4 Jig Allegro (Fast)

Name Characteristics You can hear the beating of the cloth on the table as the ladies sing. Slow, Gaelic church music. The precentor leads and the congregation

copies him in their own way. Bothy Ballad Scots Ballad

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16. Does a samba band consist of mainly tuned or untuned percussion instruments? ____________________________________________________

17. How do you play the sitar? ________________________________________ 18. Which instrument features a drone? __________________________________ 19. What is meant by the term riff (clue: another word for a riff is an ostinato). __

_______________________________________________________________ 20. What style of music is based on the PENTATONIC SCALE? ____________

_______________________________________________________________ 21. What two styles of music come from LATIN AMERICA? _______________

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General Revision 5 – Basic Concepts relating to Periods of Music

1. Which two keyboard instruments were commonly used during the Baroque

period? ________________________________________________________ 2. What does the harpsichord sound like? Why? __________________________

_______________________________________________________________ 3. What is a canon? _________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________ 4. What is a ground bass? ____________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________ 5. What is meant by the term ‘ornaments’? ______________________________

_______________________________________________________________ 6. Which two instruments were invented during the Classical period? _________

_______________________________________________________________ 7. In what style of music would you find a cadenza? _______________________ 8. What is a symphony? _____________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________ 9. Describe what is meant by a ‘minuet and trio’. _________________________

_______________________________________________________________ 10. What form of music did the ‘scherzo’ replace? _________________________ 11. What is a coda? __________________________________________________ 12. Describe an alberti bass. ___________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________ 13. What is chamber music? Provide an example of chamber music. ___________

_______________________________________________________________ 14. What is a concerto? ______________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________ 15. What is ‘programme music’? Provide two examples. ____________________

_______________________________________________________________ 16. Match the following Italian words with their correct definitions.

Accelerando Give and Take in the speed Rallentando To get faster Rubato To get slower

17. What is a cluster? _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________

18. What is the difference between consonance and dissonance? ______________ _______________________________________________________________

19. What is a chromatic scale? _________________________________________ 20. What is meant by the term ‘atonal’? _________________________________

_______________________________________________________________ 21. What are ‘cross rhythms?’ _________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________ 22. What scale is associated with Impressionist music? _____________________ 23. How would you describe aleatoric music? _____________________________

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General Revision 6 - Music Theory

1. What is a scale? Do scales move by step or by leap? _____________________ _______________________________________________________________

2. What is an arpeggio? _____________________________________________ 3. If the music moves from the notes E-F-G-A-B-C, does it move by step or by

leap? ________________________ 4. If the music moves from the notes C-G-C’-A-D, does it move by step or by

leap? _________________________ 5. What is meant by an ascending sequence? _____________________________

_______________________________________________________________ 6. What is meant by a descending sequence? _____________________________

_______________________________________________________________ 7. Describe the concept ‘imitation’? ____________________________________

_______________________________________________________________ 8. What is ‘question and answer’ in music? ______________________________

_______________________________________________________________ 9. What is a ‘pause’? _______________________________________________ 10. What are ‘accented’ notes? _________________________________________ 11. What is a modulation? ____________________________________________ 12. What is meant by the term ‘contrary motion’? __________________________ 13. Describe binary form. _____________________________________________ 14. Describe ternary form. ____________________________________________ 15. Describe rondo form. _____________________________________________ 16. How would you recognise a minuet and trio? __________________________

_______________________________________________________________ 17. How would you recognise theme and variations? _______________________

_______________________________________________________________ 18. What is a Tierce de Picardie? _______________________________________

_______________________________________________________________ 19. Describe what is meant by a suspension. ______________________________

_______________________________________________________________ 20. What is a passing note? ___________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________ 21. What is meant by the relative minor of a key? __________________________

_______________________________________________________________ 22. What is meant by the term ‘consonance?’ _____________________________

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7 – Medieval and Renaissance Period

1. What is meant by the term ‘modal?’ _________________________________ _______________________________________________________________

2. What is meant by the term ‘Gregorian Chant?’ How would you describe the texture of the music? _____________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________

3. Gregorian Chant/Plainchants/Plainsong have irregular metres due to the word setting of the Latin text. What does this mean? _________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. What is meant by the term ‘monophonic?’ ____________________________ _______________________________________________________________

5. What are the movements of a Mass called? How would you recognise a Mass? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

6. What are the differences and similarities between a motet and an anthem? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________

7. What is meant by the term ‘antiphonal?’ ______________________________ _______________________________________________________________

8. A motet is secular and a madrigal is sacred. True or false? ________________ 9. Name three types of madrigals. _____________________________________

_______________________________________________________________ 10. How does a ballett differ to an ayre? _________________________________

_______________________________________________________________ 11. What are the differences between a pavan and a galliard? _________________

_______________________________________________________________ 12. What is meant by the term ‘consort?’ ________________________________

_______________________________________________________________ 13. Name a string instrument from this period. ____________________________ 14. Name two woodwind instruments from this period. _____________________

_______________________________________________________________ 15. Name two keyboard instruments from this period. ______________________

_______________________________________________________________ 16. What is meant by the term ‘augmentation?’ ___________________________

_______________________________________________________________ 17. What is meant by the term ‘diminution?’ ______________________________

_______________________________________________________________ 18. What is a suspension? ____________________________________________

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8 - The Baroque Period

1. Using all of the words in the box below, describe a fugue. You may wish to include a diagram. Underline these words in your answer.

Subject Episode Answer Real Answer Counter-subject Tonic Tonal Answer Baroque Contrapuntal Imitation Dominant Modulation

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. (a) Using all of the words in the box below, describe a concerto grosso. You may wish to include a diagram. Underline these words in your answer.

Concertino Ripieno Antiphonal Basso Continuo Cello Harpsichord

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

(b) How does this differ to a solo concerto? __________________________ _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________

3. (a) Using all of the words in the box below, describe a passacaglia. You may wish to include a diagram. Underline these words in your answer.

Ground bass Repetition Variation Cello Harpsichord Basso Continuo _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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(b) What form of music from the Baroque period is similar to the passacaglia? ____________________________________________________

4. What is meant by the term ‘ritornello form?’ ___________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. What is a suite? _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

6. What is a ‘da capo aria?’ Describe the form of this work. _________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

7. Name two popular keyboard instruments from this period. ________________ _______________________________________________________________

8. What is meant by the term ‘contrapuntal?’ ____________________________ _______________________________________________________________

9. Name two ‘finished’ sounding cadences. ______________________________ _______________________________________________________________

10. Name two ‘unfinished’ sounding cadences. ____________________________ _______________________________________________________________

11. What is a ‘chorale prelude?’ What instrument is it associated with? _________ _______________________________________________________________

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9 - The Classical Period

1. What two popular instruments were invented during the Classical period? _______________________________________________________________

2. (a) Using all of the words in the box below, describe sonata form. You may wish to include a diagram. Underline these words in your answer.

Exposition First Subject Second Subject Tonic Modulation

Development Transition Recapitulation Coda

_______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________

(b) Is sonata form the same as a sonata? Why?

_______________________________________________________________ 3. What is meant by the term ‘chamber music?’ Provide three examples.

_______________________________________________________________ 4. Using all of the words in the box below, describe the similarities and

differences between a scherzo and a minuet and trio. Underline these words in your answer.

Third movement Three beats in a bar Triple time Symphony Up-beat

Ternary Form (ABA) Contrasting Replacement

_______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________

5. What is meant by the term ‘coloratura?’ ______________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________

6. Describe an alberti bass. ___________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________

7. Describe ‘theme and variations.’ ____________________________________ _______________________________________________________________

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10 – The Romantic Period

1. What is meant by the term ‘Leid?’ ___________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________

2. Lead is usually associated with a mezzo soprano. True or false? ___________ 3. What is a ‘song cycle?’ ___________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________

4. What is the difference between ‘strophic’ and ‘through composed?’ ________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. Is there a difference between a symphony and an overture? _______________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

6. What is a ‘leitmotif?’ _____________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________

7. How did the symphony develop during this period? _____________________ _______________________________________________________________

8. Describe the music of the ‘Early Romantic’ period. _____________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

9. Describe the music of the ‘Nationalist’ period. _________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

10. Describe the music of the ‘Late Romantic’ period. ______________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

11. What is meant by the term ‘rubato?’ _________________________________ _______________________________________________________________

12. What is meant by the term ‘word painting?’ ___________________________ _______________________________________________________________

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11 – 20th Century Music

1. Describe Impressionist music? What type of scale is commonly used in Impressionist music? _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. Using the following concepts, describe serial music. Circle each concept as you use it.

Chromatic Atonal Dischord Cluster 12-tone Tone Row

Retrograde Inversion Irregular metres Dissonant

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. What is meant by the term ‘sprechgesang?’____________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. Describe ‘Neo Classical’ music. ____________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. Describe ‘Minimalism.’ ___________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________

6. What is a riff/ostinato? ____________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________

7. What is a microtone? _____________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

8. What is ‘Aleatoric’ music? _________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________

9. What is meant by the term ‘Musique Concrete?’ ________________________ _______________________________________________________________

10. What is meant by the term ‘reverb?’ _________________________________ _______________________________________________________________

11. What is meant by the term ‘delay?’ __________________________________ _______________________________________________________________

12. What is meant by the term ‘distortion?’ _______________________________ _______________________________________________________________

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12 - General Concepts

1. (a) State which of the following cadences sound finished and which sound unfinished:

Perfect cadence ___________________ Interrupted cadence ___________________ Imperfect cadence ___________________ Plagal cadence ___________________ (b) Which cadence ends on the dominant chord? ________________________ (c) Which cadence ends on a minor chord? ___________________________

2. State the names of the ornaments shown below:

(a) (b) (c) (d) (e) What is meant by the term ‘grace notes?’ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. Describe what is meant by the term ‘cross rhythms?’ ____________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. Describe what is meant by the term ‘hemiola.’ _________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________

5. What is meant by the term ‘contrary motion?’ __________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________