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AP Music Theory
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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. Refers to the beat being divided equally into 2 parts
Simple Meter
Hemiola
Double Bar Line
Blues Scale
2. 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
Final Bar Line
Whole Step
Consonant
Staff
3. Rhythmic displacements of the expected strong beats created by dots - rests - ties - accent marks - & dynamics
Pitch (Frequency)- Wavelength
Tie
Syncopation
Alto
4. A single line of melody
Whole Tone Scale
Common Time (C)
Monophonic
Submediant
5. Combines treble and bass clef into one staff
Half Step
Diminished Scale (Octatonic Scale)
Grand Staff
Mezzo-Soprano
6. Vertical lines that divide the staff into measures
Tempo
Enharmonic Equivalent
Tie
Bar Lines
7. A minor church mode following the natural minor scale
Submediant
Asymmetrical Meter
Articulation- Envelope
Aeolian Mode
8. A clef used for pitch-less or rhythm instruments
Timbre (Tone Color)- Waveform
Mediant
Neutral Clef
Downbeat
9. A symbol which means the song has a two two time signature
Melodic Minor Scale
System
Cut Time (¢)- Alla Breve
Key Signature
10. A scale containing 8 notes that alternate a whole step & half step apart
Syncopation
Diminished Scale (Octatonic Scale)
Consonant
Common Time (C)
11. Consists of 3 elements: attack - sustain - and release
Articulation- Envelope
Double Bar Line
Mixolydian Mode
Flat (b)
12. Indicates the end of a piece of music
Flag
Polyphonic
Final Bar Line
Beat
13. A symmetrical scale with all pitches spaced a half step apart
Note Head
Half Step
Mezzo-Soprano
Chromatic Scale
14. Scale degree 5; the pitch that dominates the tonality; a perfect fifth above the tonic
Tetrachord
Dominant
Chromatic Scale
Dorian Mode
15. A scale containing 7 notes with no second or sixth degree
Dynamic (Amplitude)- Waveheight
Blues Scale
Duration
Common Time (C)
16. The length of time sound of silence occurs
Duration
Diminished Scale (Octatonic Scale)
Mediant
C Clef
17. Scale degree 6; Halfway between subdominant & tonic
Anacrusis
Tetrachord
Timbre (Tone Color)- Waveform
Submediant
18. A symbol that extends the value of a note by half the original value
Tetrachord
Hertz
Dot
System
19. The body of a note
Lydian Mode
Subtonic
Note Head
Pure Minor Scale
20. A scale with a WHWWHWW step pattern and three different derivatives: Natural - Harmonic - & Melodic
Pure Minor Scale
Tenor
Leading Tone
Double Bar Line
21. Scale degree 1; the tone on which a scale is built
Tonic
Tempo
Phrygian Mode
Duration
22. Multiple lines of melody being sung at once
Polyphonic
Pentatonic Scale
Simple Meter
Downbeat
23. An accidental used to indicate that the note is to be lowered a half step
Submediant
Flag
Flat (b)
Pentatonic Scale
24. A minor scale containing the same pattern as the pure minor scale
Subdominat
Raised Submediant
Natural Minor Scale
Double Flat (bb)
25. High male voice; clef is on the fourth line
Downbeat
Tenor
Pentatonic Scale
Dorian Mode
26. Scale degree 7 in the natural minor scale when the 7th is a whole step above the tonic
Timbre (Tone Color)- Waveform
Leading Tone
Subtonic
Half Step
27. Lines written when the note goes above and below the staff lines
Supertonic
Diminished Scale (Octatonic Scale)
Church Mode
Ledger Lines
28. A minor scale containing a minor pentachord followed by a raised sixth and seventh ascending - and the natural minor form descending
Scale Degree
Melodic Minor Scale
Downbeat
Note Head
29. The higher female voice; clef is on the first line
Soprano
Flat (b)
Beat
Articulation- Envelope
30. An accidental used to indicate that the note is to be raised two half steps
Syncopation
Whole Step
Double Sharp (X)
Cautionary Accidental
31. A major church mode with no accidentals
Ionian Mode
Leading Tone
System
Tenor
32. Organization of beats into regular groups of 2 - 3 - or 4 and how the beat is subdivided
Measures
Melodic Minor Scale
Meter
Whole Tone Scale
33. Scale degree 7; Leads up to resolution of tonic
Leading Tone
Scale Degree
Pitch (Frequency)- Wavelength
Flat (b)
34. Another name for a note using the opposite accidental
Harmonic Minor Scale
Supertonic
Enharmonic Equivalent
Dorian Mode
35. Unit of space in between bar lines
Measures
Flag
Double Flat (bb)
Consonant
36. Scale degree 6 in a melodic minor scale when the 6th is raised a half step
Articulation- Envelope
Anacrusis
Tetrachord
Raised Submediant
37. A scale with a different pattern of whole & half steps from major or minor
Tetrachord
Church Mode
Flag
Minor Pentachord
38. The use of all three minor forms within a composition
Scale Degree
Mezzo-Soprano
Subtonic
Scalar Variance
39. The smallest interval between two notes
Mediant
Baritone
Half Step
Tie
40. A minor church mode with a flatted second
Blues Scale
Phrygian Mode
Note Head
Downbeat
41. A diminished church mode with a diminished tonic triad - a flatted second & fifth
Pentatonic Scale
Hertz
Dot
Locrian Mode
42. Each step of a scale
Scale Degree
Flat (b)
Tonic
Key Signature
43. Multiple staves connected by bar lines - a bracket - or a brace
Scalar Variance
System
Lydian Mode
Stem
44. Scale degree 3; halfway between the tonic & dominant
Mediant
Leading Tone
Polyphonic
Locrian Mode
45. Major and minor scales that have the same pitches & key signature
Phrygian Mode
Relative Minor
Church Mode
Scale Degree
46. Refers to the beat being divided into 3 parts
Compound Meter
Stem
Baritone
Polyphonic
47. Scale degree 4; prefix 'sub' meaning below the dominant
Subdominat
Compound Meter
Dynamic (Amplitude)- Waveheight
Neutral Clef
48. A symbol which means the song has a four four time signature
Common Time (C)
Measures
Chromatic Scale
Meter
49. A combination of overtones that clash or are out of tune with each other
Tenor
Dissonant
Blues Scale
Whole Tone Scale
50. Moderately high female voice; clef is on the second line
Mezzo-Soprano
Tonic
Key Signature
Rhythm