Multiple Choice Questions

Historically, tablature has been used for particular ______ instruments.
  • True
  • octave
  • Fourth
  • string
The interval between D and the next G above that D, is called a:
  • rhythm
  • octave
  • Fourth
  • Fifth
The audible frequency spectrum in humans ranges between:
  • False
  • 16 and 20,000 Hertz
  • tone color
  • Fifth
On a piano keyboard, playing successive keys to the right produces:
  • Alpheus Babcock of Boston, USA in 1825
  • string
  • False
  • Slightly higher pitches
The function of the organ's stops is to:
  • Fourth
  • True
  • Control the flow of air to the pipes
  • third
If you take any pitch on the keyboard, the next occurrence of the same letter name going towards the left (down) will vibrate:
  • twice as slow
  • quill; pluck
  • twice as fast
  • tone color
The text states that an essential element in music is:
  • pitch
  • False
  • rhythm
  • Fourth
Please select the word pair that best completes the following sentence.When a harpsichordist depresses a key, a simple mechanism causes a __________ to __________ a string.
  • tone color
  • twice as fast
  • quill; pluck
  • wholenote
Composers started marking their scores with volume indications as soon as music notation was invented.
  • True
  • False
Noteheads should be centered on the line or space they inhabit.
  • True
  • False
Music notation can be thought of as a:
  • tone color
  • Time values in music are expressed in relative terms.
  • Form of communication among musicians
  • New instruments allowed for more dynamic ranges and contrast.
A fifth above E is
  • B
  • hertz
  • white keys on a piano keyboard
  • Fifth
The kettledrum is the most important percussion instrument of the symphony orchestra.
  • True
  • False
Our ears can perceive the entire range of possible sounds.
  • True
  • False
The Young Person's Guide ends with a fugue, which is:
  • True
  • Dynamic level can be affected by the number of musicians taking part in a performance
  • Analog synthesizers, digital synthesizers, samplers
  • A traditional form of composition in which one part enters after another using the same theme.
The sound of string instruments is produced by a.....stretched between two points.
  • rhythm
  • string
  • True
  • False
It is very important to recognize that pitch is a relative concept.
  • True
  • False
According to the text, there are always ____ keys from a letter name to its next occurrence up or down the keyboard.
  • True
  • 8
  • False
  • Around 1397
A traditional symphony orchestra can sometimes have more than 100 players.
  • True
  • False
In recent centuries, the standard in most Western music traditions has been imaginative forms of graphic notation.
  • True
  • False
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