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AP Music Theory
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Subjects
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performing-arts
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ap
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performing-arts
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music
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Combines treble and bass clef into one staff
Beat
Grand Staff
Dominant
Pentatonic Scale
2. Each step of a scale
Scale Degree
Relative Minor
Blues Scale
Alto
3. A scale with a different pattern of whole & half steps from major or minor
Baritone
Tie
Subdivision
Church Mode
4. Series of duration of sound and silence
Staff
Grand Staff
Rhythm
Asymmetrical Meter
5. A clef used for pitch-less or rhythm instruments
Relative Minor
Neutral Clef
Measures
Chromatic Scale
6. Low female voice; clef is on the middle line
Pentatonic Scale
Bar Lines
Subtonic
Alto
7. Lines written when the note goes above and below the staff lines
Tetrachord
Subtonic
Leading Tone
Ledger Lines
8. The higher female voice; clef is on the first line
Polyphonic
Soprano
Double Flat (bb)
Cautionary Accidental
9. The smallest interval between two notes
Double Flat (bb)
Half Step
Lydian Mode
Beat
10. A minor church mode following the natural minor scale
Key Signature
Aeolian Mode
Simple Meter
Hemiola
11. Refers to the beat being divided equally into 2 parts
Dissonant
Key Signature
Simple Meter
Flag
12. A major church mode with a flatted seventh
Key Signature
Harmonic Minor Scale
Mixolydian Mode
Syncopation
13. The distance between one wave and the next
Tempo
Ledger Lines
Downbeat
Pitch (Frequency)- Wavelength
14. Multiple staves connected by bar lines - a bracket - or a brace
Stem
Scalar Variance
System
C Clef
15. A minor scale containing a minor pentachord followed by a raised seventh
Whole Step
Harmonic Minor Scale
Leading Tone
Asymmetrical Meter
16. A tail drawn on the top of a stem for all notes shorter in value than a quarter note
Phrygian Mode
Beat
Flag
Tie
17. A minor scale containing the same pattern as the pure minor scale
Minor Pentachord
Cautionary Accidental
Natural Minor Scale
Alto
18. The maximum extent of a vibration measured from the position of equilibrium
Flat (b)
Final Bar Line
Simple Meter
Dynamic (Amplitude)- Waveheight
19. An accidental used to indicate that the note is to be raised a half step
Tenor
Sharp (#)
Pitch (Frequency)- Wavelength
Harmonic Minor Scale
20. Multiple lines of melody being sung at once
Measures
Ledger Lines
Polyphonic
Simple Meter
21. An ordered collection of pitches in whole and half step patterns
Asymmetrical Meter
Bar Lines
Chromatic Scale
Scale
22. The body of a note
Phrygian Mode
Note Head
Rhythm
Hertz
23. Moderately high female voice; clef is on the second line
Mezzo-Soprano
Tetrachord
Consonant
Neutral Clef
24. Low male voice; clef is on the fifth line
Flag
Baritone
Note Head
Aeolian Mode
25. An accidental used to indicate that the note is to be raised two half steps
Grand Staff
Polyphonic
Double Sharp (X)
Whole Step
26. A symbol which means the song has a four four time signature
Bar Lines
Whole Tone Scale
Phrygian Mode
Common Time (C)
27. A form of short hand that dispenses with the writing of accidentals for the notes being changed to fit the scale
Mezzo-Soprano
Submediant
Key Signature
Tetrachord
28. A symbol used to extend the value of a note by connecting it to another note
Hemiola
Stem
Consonant
Tie
29. Another name for a note using the opposite accidental
Enharmonic Equivalent
Sharp (#)
Raised Submediant
Scalar Variance
30. Refers to the beat being divided into 3 parts
Compound Meter
Staff
Diminished Scale (Octatonic Scale)
Lydian Mode
31. A diminished church mode with a diminished tonic triad - a flatted second & fifth
Half Step
Dot
Locrian Mode
Rhythm
32. Organization of beats into regular groups of 2 - 3 - or 4 and how the beat is subdivided
Pure Minor Scale
Meter
Mediant
Hertz
33. Scale degree 6 in a melodic minor scale when the 6th is raised a half step
Timbre (Tone Color)- Waveform
Key Signature
Dot
Raised Submediant
34. A stick drawn on all notes that are shorter in value than a whole note
Downbeat
Relative Minor
Ionian Mode
Stem
35. A major church mode with no accidentals
Note Head
Dominant
Scale Degree
Ionian Mode
36. Scale degree 2; prefix 'super' meaning above the tonic
Ledger Lines
Supertonic
Half Step
Staff
37. A single line of melody
Baritone
Monophonic
Polyphonic
Subdivision
38. A minor scale containing a minor pentachord followed by a raised sixth and seventh ascending - and the natural minor form descending
Phrygian Mode
Melodic Minor Scale
Minor Pentachord
Compound Meter
39. The first beat of a measure & it corresponds with the movement of conductor's hand
Ionian Mode
Scalar Variance
Downbeat
Asymmetrical Meter
40. A scale with a WWHWWWH step pattern containing two tetrachords
Scale
Major Scale
Sharp (#)
Tonic
41. A set of five lines and four spaces for note writing; each line corresponds to a note with a letter name in between A and G
Staff
Church Mode
Minor Pentachord
Alto
42. A minor church mode with a flatted second
Hemiola
Church Mode
Phrygian Mode
Meter
43. A music clef which moves depending on the range of the notes; the line going through the center of it is a C
Final Bar Line
C Clef
Leading Tone
Pitch (Frequency)- Wavelength
44. Scale degree 1; the tone on which a scale is built
Aeolian Mode
Tonic
Dot
Minor Pentachord
45. A cross rhythm or a metric device where the rhythmic relation of three notes occurs in the time of two
Enharmonic Equivalent
Hemiola
Stem
Harmonic Minor Scale
46. A major church mode with a raised fourth
Subtonic
Duration
Final Bar Line
Lydian Mode
47. An interval that consists of two half steps
Subdivision
Whole Step
Anacrusis
Key Signature
48. A minor church mode with a raised sixth
Blues Scale
Flat (b)
Dorian Mode
Tetrachord
49. A symbol which means the song has a two two time signature
Cut Time (¢)- Alla Breve
Ionian Mode
Aeolian Mode
Soprano
50. A scale containing 5 notes containing no half steps; C D E G A C
Cut Time (¢)- Alla Breve
Scalar Variance
Pentatonic Scale
Major Scale