NYSTCE CST 245 LATEST 2026 TEST PAPER QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Clef note - ✔✔A symbol indicating the pitch to be played. Usually a G clef or Bass
clef
✔✔Harmony - ✔✔Pleasing combination of two or three tones played together in the
background while a melody is being played. Harmony also refers to the study of chord
progressions.
✔✔Key - ✔✔A system of notes or tones based and named after the key note
✔✔Measure - ✔✔The unit of measure where the beats on the lines of the staff are
divided up into two, three, four beats to a measure.
✔✔Melody - ✔✔a sequence of single notes that is musically satisfying.
✔✔Movement - ✔✔A separate section of a larger composition.
✔✔Pitch - ✔✔a tone's experienced highness or lowness; depends on frequency
✔✔Refrain - ✔✔A repeating phrase that is played at the end of each verse in the song
✔✔Rhythm - ✔✔The element of music pertaining to time, played as a group of notes
into accented and unaccented beats
✔✔Scale - ✔✔Successive notes of a key or mode either ascending or descending in a
song
✔✔Staff - ✔✔Made up of five horizontal parallel lines and the spaces between them on
which musical notation is written.
✔✔Tempo - ✔✔Indicating speed.
✔✔Tune - ✔✔A rhythmic succession of musical tones, a melody for instruments and
voices.
✔✔Time Signature - ✔✔a musical notation indicating the number of beats to a measure
and kind of note that takes a beat. ie 4/4
✔✔Whole Note - ✔✔A whole note is equal to 2 half notes, 4 quarter notes, 8 eighth
notes, etc.
, ✔✔Strings - ✔✔Sounds are made by: Plucking (harp, guitar), bowing (Violin family) and
hitting (hammered dulcimer and piano) VIOLIN FAMILY = PLUCKING AND BOWING
✔✔Woodwinds - ✔✔Made of wood, you blow into them using a reed. Most are tubes
and the vibrating column of air inside the tube. Sounds are made by blowing across
edge (flute), between a reed and foxed surface (clarinet) or two reeds (oboe)
✔✔Brass - ✔✔Made from western Europe traditionally made from brass. Sounds are
made when a vibrating column of air inside the tube which resonance with vibrating lips
of the player which forces out air in the mouthpiece "raspberry"
✔✔Percussion - ✔✔Anything you can whack with a stick, sounds are made when you
shake, rub or other ways to cause vibrations
✔✔PAINTINGS - ✔✔Go simple and use what you see in the picture
✔✔tyranny of the majority - ✔✔The potential of a majority to monopolize power for its
own gain to the detriment of minority rights and interests. Brown vs BOE addressed this
✔✔Checks and Balances - ✔✔A system that allows each branch of government to limit
the powers of the other branches in order to prevent abuse of power
✔✔State laws - ✔✔Laws that are created by and pertain only to an individual state
✔✔Federal Law - ✔✔the law of the national government
✔✔The Confederate States of America - ✔✔Eventually made up of 11 former states
that seceded; Jefferson Davis was the 1st & only president; unable to defeat the North
b/c of lack of railroad lines, lack of industry, & inability to get European nations to
support their cause.
✔✔Union states during the Civil War - ✔✔Blue states on map. (Northern most states)
✔✔Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) - ✔✔Harriet Beecher Stowe's widely read novel that
dramatized the horrors of slavery. It heightened Northern support for abolition and
escalated the sectional conflict.
✔✔Missouri Compromise of 1820 - ✔✔Allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave
state, Maine to enter the union as a free state, prohibited slavery north of latitude 36˚ 30'
within the Louisiana Territory (1820)
✔✔Dred Scott v. Sanford - ✔✔1857 Supreme Court decision that stated slaves were
not citizens: slaves were property no matter where they were living and the Missouri
Compromise unconstitutional: Revokes the right of states to ban slavery
AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Clef note - ✔✔A symbol indicating the pitch to be played. Usually a G clef or Bass
clef
✔✔Harmony - ✔✔Pleasing combination of two or three tones played together in the
background while a melody is being played. Harmony also refers to the study of chord
progressions.
✔✔Key - ✔✔A system of notes or tones based and named after the key note
✔✔Measure - ✔✔The unit of measure where the beats on the lines of the staff are
divided up into two, three, four beats to a measure.
✔✔Melody - ✔✔a sequence of single notes that is musically satisfying.
✔✔Movement - ✔✔A separate section of a larger composition.
✔✔Pitch - ✔✔a tone's experienced highness or lowness; depends on frequency
✔✔Refrain - ✔✔A repeating phrase that is played at the end of each verse in the song
✔✔Rhythm - ✔✔The element of music pertaining to time, played as a group of notes
into accented and unaccented beats
✔✔Scale - ✔✔Successive notes of a key or mode either ascending or descending in a
song
✔✔Staff - ✔✔Made up of five horizontal parallel lines and the spaces between them on
which musical notation is written.
✔✔Tempo - ✔✔Indicating speed.
✔✔Tune - ✔✔A rhythmic succession of musical tones, a melody for instruments and
voices.
✔✔Time Signature - ✔✔a musical notation indicating the number of beats to a measure
and kind of note that takes a beat. ie 4/4
✔✔Whole Note - ✔✔A whole note is equal to 2 half notes, 4 quarter notes, 8 eighth
notes, etc.
, ✔✔Strings - ✔✔Sounds are made by: Plucking (harp, guitar), bowing (Violin family) and
hitting (hammered dulcimer and piano) VIOLIN FAMILY = PLUCKING AND BOWING
✔✔Woodwinds - ✔✔Made of wood, you blow into them using a reed. Most are tubes
and the vibrating column of air inside the tube. Sounds are made by blowing across
edge (flute), between a reed and foxed surface (clarinet) or two reeds (oboe)
✔✔Brass - ✔✔Made from western Europe traditionally made from brass. Sounds are
made when a vibrating column of air inside the tube which resonance with vibrating lips
of the player which forces out air in the mouthpiece "raspberry"
✔✔Percussion - ✔✔Anything you can whack with a stick, sounds are made when you
shake, rub or other ways to cause vibrations
✔✔PAINTINGS - ✔✔Go simple and use what you see in the picture
✔✔tyranny of the majority - ✔✔The potential of a majority to monopolize power for its
own gain to the detriment of minority rights and interests. Brown vs BOE addressed this
✔✔Checks and Balances - ✔✔A system that allows each branch of government to limit
the powers of the other branches in order to prevent abuse of power
✔✔State laws - ✔✔Laws that are created by and pertain only to an individual state
✔✔Federal Law - ✔✔the law of the national government
✔✔The Confederate States of America - ✔✔Eventually made up of 11 former states
that seceded; Jefferson Davis was the 1st & only president; unable to defeat the North
b/c of lack of railroad lines, lack of industry, & inability to get European nations to
support their cause.
✔✔Union states during the Civil War - ✔✔Blue states on map. (Northern most states)
✔✔Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) - ✔✔Harriet Beecher Stowe's widely read novel that
dramatized the horrors of slavery. It heightened Northern support for abolition and
escalated the sectional conflict.
✔✔Missouri Compromise of 1820 - ✔✔Allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave
state, Maine to enter the union as a free state, prohibited slavery north of latitude 36˚ 30'
within the Louisiana Territory (1820)
✔✔Dred Scott v. Sanford - ✔✔1857 Supreme Court decision that stated slaves were
not citizens: slaves were property no matter where they were living and the Missouri
Compromise unconstitutional: Revokes the right of states to ban slavery
