5 Written Questions

1. genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment
2. the concluding part of a musical phrase
3. the character or quality of a musical tone as determined by its harmonics and its attack and decay
4. a group of singers, usually including sopranos, altos, tenors, and basses, with at least two and often many more singers on each vocal part; in Tin Pan Alley songs and Broadway tunes, the main melody of the song; jazz musicals often improvised around it.
5. an even pulse in music that divides the passing of time into equal segments

5 Matching Questions

1. 1. Music
2. repetition
3. doo-wop
4. harmony
5. triad

1. a type of soul music that emerged in the 1950s as an outgrowth of the gospel hymns sung in African-American churches in urban Detroit, Chicago, and New York; its lyrics made use of repeating phrases sung in a cappella(unaccompanied) harmony below the tune.
2. b process employed by a composer to validate the importance of a section of music by repeating it.
3. c the rational organization of sounds and silence as they pass through time
4. d a chord consisting of three pitches and two intervals of a third
5. e the sounds that provide the support and enrichment—the accompaniment—for melody

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. the highest male vocal range
   1. tenor
   2. tonic
   3. meter
   4. tempo
2. a musical tremor produced on a string instrument by repeating the same pitch with quick up-and-down strokes of the bow.
   1. stop
   2. harmony
   3. statement
   4. tremolo
3. the harmonious opposition of two or more independent musical lines
   1. interval
   2. contrast
   3. counterpoint
   4. mouthpiece
4. in musical notation, a symbol that lowers a pitch by a half step
   1. flat(b)
   2. lyrics
   3. motive
   4. bass
5. an expressive, soulful style of singing that emerged from the African-American spiritual and work song at the end of the nineteenth century; its texts are strophic, its harmonies simple and repetitive
   1. clef
   2. beat
   3. blues
   4. bass

5 True/False Questions

1. dynamics → the various levels of volume, loud and soft, at which sounds are produced in a musical composition.

   True        False

2. natural(square w/ 2 sticks) → a broad category of music designed to please a large section of the general public; sometimes used in the contradistinction to more "serious" or more "learned" classical music.

   True        False

3. pizzicato → in musical notation, a dynamic mark indicating "very soft."

   True        False

4. great staff → a horizontal grid onto which are put the symbols of musical notation: notes, rests, accidentals, dynamic marks, etc

   True        False

5. quarter note → unit of musical duration that most often represents the beat; normally moves at roughly the rate of the average person's heartbeat

   True        False