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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. A major church mode with a raised fourth
Duration
Hemiola
Monophonic
Lydian Mode
2. A recurring pulsation that divides music into units of time
Bar Lines
Timbre (Tone Color)- Waveform
Beat
Blues Scale
3. High male voice; clef is on the fourth line
Cautionary Accidental
Tenor
Consonant
Grand Staff
4. A cross rhythm or a metric device where the rhythmic relation of three notes occurs in the time of two
Grand Staff
Hemiola
Key Signature
Dynamic (Amplitude)- Waveheight
5. Scale degree 6 in a melodic minor scale when the 6th is raised a half step
Raised Submediant
Common Time (C)
Blues Scale
Beat
6. A minor church mode following the natural minor scale
Aeolian Mode
Meter
Natural Minor Scale
Whole Step
7. Refers to the beat being divided equally into 2 parts
Key Signature
Pentatonic Scale
Simple Meter
Monophonic
8. Low female voice; clef is on the middle line
Dominant
Beat
Alto
Common Time (C)
9. The unit of measure for frequency or the rate of vibration
Whole Step
Cautionary Accidental
Diminished Scale (Octatonic Scale)
Hertz
10. Two lines that signal the end of a section of music
Timbre (Tone Color)- Waveform
C Clef
Double Flat (bb)
Double Bar Line
11. A symbol which means the song has a two two time signature
Cut Time (¢)- Alla Breve
Subtonic
Double Flat (bb)
Major Scale
12. Scale degree 1; the tone on which a scale is built
Double Sharp (X)
Staff
Tonic
Anacrusis
13. Multiple staves connected by bar lines - a bracket - or a brace
Hertz
System
Dorian Mode
Tenor
14. A stick drawn on all notes that are shorter in value than a whole note
Common Time (C)
Stem
Minor Pentachord
Bar Lines
15. Major and minor scales that have the same pitches & key signature
Final Bar Line
Simple Meter
Relative Minor
Mezzo-Soprano
16. Scale degree 7 in the natural minor scale when the 7th is a whole step above the tonic
Pitch (Frequency)- Wavelength
Dot
Measures
Subtonic
17. The distance between one wave and the next
Simple Meter
Syncopation
Baritone
Pitch (Frequency)- Wavelength
18. Organization of beats into regular groups of 2 - 3 - or 4 and how the beat is subdivided
Meter
Bar Lines
Diminished Scale (Octatonic Scale)
Stem
19. Multiple lines of melody being sung at once
Duration
Polyphonic
Cautionary Accidental
Flat (b)
20. A scale containing 7 notes with no second or sixth degree
Scale
Subtonic
Double Flat (bb)
Blues Scale
21. A scale with a different pattern of whole & half steps from major or minor
Church Mode
System
Syncopation
Beat
22. Each step of a scale
Final Bar Line
Rhythm
Minor Pentachord
Scale Degree
23. A diminished church mode with a diminished tonic triad - a flatted second & fifth
Hemiola
Asymmetrical Meter
Locrian Mode
Rhythm
24. The length of time sound of silence occurs
Double Sharp (X)
Ledger Lines
Dynamic (Amplitude)- Waveheight
Duration
25. An interval that consists of two half steps
Half Step
Whole Step
Dorian Mode
Articulation- Envelope
26. 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
Timbre (Tone Color)- Waveform
Melodic Minor Scale
Staff
Leading Tone
27. A beat before the first measure or a pick-up beat
Dynamic (Amplitude)- Waveheight
Church Mode
Anacrusis
Mixolydian Mode
28. Consists of two whole steps and a half step
Supertonic
Major Scale
Tetrachord
Syncopation
29. An artificial scale containing 6 notes that are all a whole step apart
Blues Scale
Whole Tone Scale
Church Mode
Beat
30. Series of duration of sound and silence
Mezzo-Soprano
Tonic
Diminished Scale (Octatonic Scale)
Rhythm
31. The higher female voice; clef is on the first line
Soprano
Scale
Whole Tone Scale
Dissonant
32. A minor scale containing the same pattern as the pure minor scale
Neutral Clef
Whole Tone Scale
Scale
Natural Minor Scale
33. Consists of 3 elements: attack - sustain - and release
Pitch (Frequency)- Wavelength
Dorian Mode
Articulation- Envelope
Tie
34. Rhythmic displacements of the expected strong beats created by dots - rests - ties - accent marks - & dynamics
Note Head
Key Signature
Minor Pentachord
Syncopation
35. Moderately high female voice; clef is on the second line
Tempo
Dot
Bar Lines
Mezzo-Soprano
36. Scale degree 4; prefix 'sub' meaning below the dominant
Anacrusis
Subdominat
Bar Lines
Cautionary Accidental
37. A music clef which moves depending on the range of the notes; the line going through the center of it is a C
C Clef
Rhythm
Simple Meter
Baritone
38. An accidental used to indicate that the note is to be lowered a half step
Submediant
Flat (b)
Harmonic Minor Scale
Phrygian Mode
39. A clef used for pitch-less or rhythm instruments
Neutral Clef
Locrian Mode
Consonant
Note Head
40. Scale degree 6; Halfway between subdominant & tonic
Mediant
Dynamic (Amplitude)- Waveheight
Submediant
Dot
41. Another name for a note using the opposite accidental
Pentatonic Scale
Enharmonic Equivalent
Monophonic
Dynamic (Amplitude)- Waveheight
42. Combines treble and bass clef into one staff
Grand Staff
Half Step
Aeolian Mode
Lydian Mode
43. Scale degree 3; halfway between the tonic & dominant
Flat (b)
Cut Time (¢)- Alla Breve
Grand Staff
Mediant
44. The smallest interval between two notes
Half Step
Neutral Clef
Raised Submediant
Cut Time (¢)- Alla Breve
45. A minor church mode with a raised sixth
Melodic Minor Scale
Double Flat (bb)
Church Mode
Dorian Mode
46. A minor church mode with a flatted second
Minor Pentachord
Ledger Lines
Dynamic (Amplitude)- Waveheight
Phrygian Mode
47. Scale degree 5; the pitch that dominates the tonality; a perfect fifth above the tonic
Harmonic Minor Scale
Neutral Clef
Scale Degree
Dominant
48. A symbol that extends the value of a note by half the original value
Scale Degree
Dot
Ionian Mode
Cut Time (¢)- Alla Breve
49. A major church mode with no accidentals
Tie
Hertz
Tonic
Ionian Mode
50. An accidental used to indicate that the note is to be lowered two half steps
Subdominat
Diminished Scale (Octatonic Scale)
Sharp (#)
Double Flat (bb)