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AP Music Theory
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performing-arts
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ap
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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. The length of time sound of silence occurs
Relative Minor
Harmonic Minor Scale
Hemiola
Duration
2. A symbol used to extend the value of a note by connecting it to another note
Submediant
Timbre (Tone Color)- Waveform
C Clef
Tie
3. A symbol that extends the value of a note by half the original value
Dot
Major Scale
Articulation- Envelope
Hertz
4. A scale with a WWHWWWH step pattern containing two tetrachords
Tetrachord
Natural Minor Scale
Simple Meter
Major Scale
5. A stick drawn on all notes that are shorter in value than a whole note
Minor Pentachord
Stem
Pitch (Frequency)- Wavelength
Sharp (#)
6. Scale degree 4; prefix 'sub' meaning below the dominant
Subdominat
Mediant
C Clef
Enharmonic Equivalent
7. A minor church mode following the natural minor scale
Chromatic Scale
Harmonic Minor Scale
Aeolian Mode
Ionian Mode
8. Moderately high female voice; clef is on the second line
Mezzo-Soprano
Dominant
Church Mode
Harmonic Minor Scale
9. A major church mode with no accidentals
Final Bar Line
Pentatonic Scale
Subdivision
Ionian Mode
10. Scale degree 6 in a melodic minor scale when the 6th is raised a half step
Duration
Lydian Mode
Compound Meter
Raised Submediant
11. An accidental used to indicate that the note is to be raised two half steps
Raised Submediant
Soprano
Double Sharp (X)
Flat (b)
12. Scale degree 7; Leads up to resolution of tonic
Compound Meter
Stem
Raised Submediant
Leading Tone
13. A combination of overtones that clash or are out of tune with each other
Harmonic Minor Scale
Dissonant
Flag
Tenor
14. The body of a note
Note Head
Dorian Mode
Relative Minor
Mezzo-Soprano
15. A scale containing 7 notes with no second or sixth degree
Mezzo-Soprano
Blues Scale
Dorian Mode
Mixolydian Mode
16. A scale with a different pattern of whole & half steps from major or minor
Mixolydian Mode
Asymmetrical Meter
Church Mode
Scalar Variance
17. A music clef which moves depending on the range of the notes; the line going through the center of it is a C
Tetrachord
C Clef
Tempo
Neutral Clef
18. The maximum extent of a vibration measured from the position of equilibrium
Dynamic (Amplitude)- Waveheight
Church Mode
Staff
Scale Degree
19. High male voice; clef is on the fourth line
Tenor
Dominant
Scale
Flat (b)
20. A symbol which means the song has a four four time signature
Tetrachord
Scale Degree
Common Time (C)
Mezzo-Soprano
21. Another name for a note using the opposite accidental
Subdivision
Sharp (#)
Enharmonic Equivalent
Flag
22. 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
Supertonic
Alto
Pentatonic Scale
Staff
23. A minor scale containing a minor pentachord followed by a raised seventh
Dot
Relative Minor
Harmonic Minor Scale
Hertz
24. A minor church mode with a flatted second
Phrygian Mode
Pentatonic Scale
Whole Step
Enharmonic Equivalent
25. A form of short hand that dispenses with the writing of accidentals for the notes being changed to fit the scale
Phrygian Mode
Cautionary Accidental
Double Sharp (X)
Key Signature
26. An accidental used to indicate that the note is to be lowered two half steps
Double Flat (bb)
Phrygian Mode
Beat
Duration
27. The smallest interval between two notes
Mixolydian Mode
Meter
Half Step
Monophonic
28. Unit of space in between bar lines
Measures
Alto
Tie
Hertz
29. An accidental which is placed in parenthesis indication the note has the same accidental in a different octave
Relative Minor
Tenor
Cautionary Accidental
Hertz
30. Scale degree 6; Halfway between subdominant & tonic
Note Head
Submediant
Double Sharp (X)
Staff
31. The distance between one wave and the next
Pitch (Frequency)- Wavelength
Measures
Dorian Mode
Aeolian Mode
32. A cross rhythm or a metric device where the rhythmic relation of three notes occurs in the time of two
Blues Scale
Hemiola
Melodic Minor Scale
Flat (b)
33. The first beat of a measure & it corresponds with the movement of conductor's hand
Downbeat
Submediant
Dominant
Subdominat
34. An accidental used to indicate that the note is to be lowered a half step
Stem
Pentatonic Scale
Cut Time (¢)- Alla Breve
Flat (b)
35. A minor church mode with a raised sixth
Final Bar Line
Dorian Mode
Whole Tone Scale
Lydian Mode
36. Refers to the beat being divided into 3 parts
Dorian Mode
Compound Meter
Subdivision
Tenor
37. An artificial scale containing 6 notes that are all a whole step apart
Whole Tone Scale
Beat
Submediant
Double Sharp (X)
38. Each step of a scale
Scale Degree
Cautionary Accidental
Mezzo-Soprano
Common Time (C)
39. Scale degree 7 in the natural minor scale when the 7th is a whole step above the tonic
Pure Minor Scale
Subtonic
Double Bar Line
Minor Pentachord
40. A scale with a WHWWHWW step pattern and three different derivatives: Natural - Harmonic - & Melodic
Dominant
Locrian Mode
Pure Minor Scale
Tetrachord
41. A scale containing 8 notes that alternate a whole step & half step apart
Pure Minor Scale
System
Cut Time (¢)- Alla Breve
Diminished Scale (Octatonic Scale)
42. Two lines that signal the end of a section of music
Compound Meter
Double Bar Line
Soprano
Final Bar Line
43. Series of duration of sound and silence
Syncopation
Simple Meter
Rhythm
Sharp (#)
44. A minor scale containing the same pattern as the pure minor scale
Natural Minor Scale
Enharmonic Equivalent
Tempo
Anacrusis
45. The use of all three minor forms within a composition
Scalar Variance
Dorian Mode
Anacrusis
Mezzo-Soprano
46. Multiple staves connected by bar lines - a bracket - or a brace
System
Compound Meter
Hertz
Enharmonic Equivalent
47. Indicates the end of a piece of music
Final Bar Line
Melodic Minor Scale
Double Flat (bb)
Hemiola
48. An accidental used to indicate that the note is to be raised a half step
Whole Tone Scale
Meter
Flat (b)
Sharp (#)
49. The speed of a beat
Tempo
Lydian Mode
Baritone
Asymmetrical Meter
50. A symbol which means the song has a two two time signature
Beat
Cut Time (¢)- Alla Breve
Raised Submediant
Locrian Mode