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| Frage | Antworten |
| Name the 4 groups that all instruments can be divided into when categorised by how they produce sound. | Membranophone Idiophone Chordophone Aerophone |
| What name do you give to all instruments that have strings? | Chordophones |
| What name do you give to all instruments which you must hit or shake to produce sound? | Idiophones |
| What name do you give to all instruments that require air passing through them to produce sound? | Aerophone |
| What name do you give to all instruments that have a skin stretched over a hollow surface? | Membranophone |
| Name 3 examples of vocal techniques used by African vocalists. | Acapella, Call and Response, Animal cries |
| What is the term in Music given to a repeated melodic or rhythmic pattern? | Ostinato |
| What is the term in Music given to singing without instrumental accompaniment? | Acapella |
| What is the term used to describe many layers of rhythms heard against each other? | Polyrhythm |
| What is the term given in music when one instrument or vocalists begins and then another enters the song and then another? | Staggered Entry |
| True or False? In music the first 8 letters of the alphabet are used to depict different pitches? | False- Only the first 7 are used: A, B,C,D,E,F,G |
| Can you sing up the scale using solfa? | Do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do |
| Can you sing down the scale using solfa? (Extension Question) | do, ti, la, so, fa, mi, re, do |
| How many notes in a Major scale? | 8 notes. eg: C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C |
| How many notes in a Pentatonic Scale? | 5 |
| Which solfa names get removed from the Major scale to form the Pentatonic scale? | Fa & Ti Pentatonic Scale= Do, Re, Mi, So, La |
| What word do you remember to help you remember the notes in the spaces of the treble clef stave? | FACE |
| What sentence helps you to remember the notes on the lines of the treble clef stave? | Every Good Boy Deserves Fruit (or Ferari's) OR Every Good Burger Deserves Fries |
| Do you remember how to work out the notes on the bass clef? | Spaces: All Cows Eat Grass Lines: Good Boys Deserve Fruit Always OR Gabby Buys Drums From Africa |
| Where do you find the note 'C' on the keyboard? | C is to the left of the 2 black keys |
| True or False? The letters on the keyboard are in alphabetical order? | True |
| When asked to describe an instruments Tone Colour. What are you being asked to do? | Describing an instruments tone colour means describing the unique tone or sound that the instrument makes. |
| When asked to comment on 'Dynamics' what are you being asked to do? | Comment on the volume changes in the music. |
| When asked to comment on the 'Texture' of a song or piece of music what are you being asked to do? | Texture refers to layers in the music. Each instrument and voice is another layer. Is the texture thick (Many layers) or thin (few layers)? |
| When asked about the 'tempo' of a song what are you being asked? | Tempo = speed. You are beig asked to comment on how fast or slow or the gradual changes in speed throughout the song. |
| What is the Italian word in music which means 'play softly'? | piano |
| What is the Italian word in Music which means 'play loudly'? | FORTE |
| What is the name given to this symbol in music '#' and what does it mean? | SHARP- it means play a semitone higher (usually a lack note) |
| What is the name given to this symbol in music 'b' and what does it mean? | FLAT- it means play the note a semitone lower (usually a black note) |
| What is meant by the word semitone? | The shortest distance between 2 notes. eg C-C# |
| What is meant by the word 'Tone' when refering to distance between 2 notes? | Tone = 2 semitones, eg C-D |
| What is the pattern of Tones and Semitones for every Major scale? (Extension Question) | T, T, St, T, T, T, St (T=tone, St=Semitone) |
| List the order of notes and their values from longest held note to shortest held note. | Semibreve (4 beats), Minim (2 beats), Crotchet (1 beat), Quaver (1/2 beat), Semiquaver (1/4 beat) |
| True or False? Every note in music, including dotted notes, have a rest of equal value? | True. (Dots can be added to rests as well as notes) |
| How many beats is a dotted minim worth? How do you work it out? | 3 beats. (A minim is worth 2 beats and a dot adds on 1/2 the original value, 1/2 of 2 =1, so 2 +1 =3) |
| How many beats per bar if the time signature is 4/4? | 4 |
| How many beats in the music if the time signature is 3/4? | 3 |
| Name 5 keyboard instruments used throughout history: | Pipe organ, Harpsichord, Clavichord, Hammond Organ, Pipe Organ, Piano, Electronic keyboard/ Digital piano. |
| What is the note which is one octave above C? | C (An octave is 8 notes, C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C) An octave above is always the same note, only higher. |
| Name the 4 families of the Orchestra. | Strings, Percussion, Brass, Woodwind. |
| Which family does the cello belong to? | String family |
| Which family does the flute belong to? | Woodwind |
| Which family does the saxophone belong to? | Woodwind (Because of its mouthpiece) |
| What is a conductor in Music? | The person who leads the Orchestra. |
| What is a composer? | A composer is the person who writes/ creates the music. (like an author writes a book) |
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