Mlit Exam 3 questions with complete
solutions graded A+ passed 2025/2026
Claude Debussy - correct answer ✔✔France
-got in trouble in school for breaking the rules of conventional music
-winner of the 1884 Prix de Rome competition
-had lots of affairs and a woman tried to kill herself
- died from rectal cancer
-wrote three important piano works, 2 preludes, and a set of etudes
prelude a lapres-midi-donfaune - correct answer ✔✔tone poem based on French symbolist
poem
-later used as music for the ballet
symbolism - correct answer ✔✔a movement in the late 19th century arts
-believed that arts should aim to capture more absolute truths which could only be accessed by
indirect methods
impressionism - correct answer ✔✔describes the music of Debussy and others. the harmonies,
melodies, and rhythms of the music are clouded shifting to an obscure theme
Pattern for Major Scale - correct answer ✔✔W-W-H-W-W-W-H
Pattern for Whole Toned Scale - correct answer ✔✔W-W-W-W-W-W-W-W
Pattern for Chromatic Scale - correct answer ✔✔H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H
, Pattern for Octatonic Scale - correct answer ✔✔W-H-W-H-W-H
functional harmony - correct answer ✔✔harmonic movement set on a base of rules
non-functional - correct answer ✔✔harmonic movement with no set rules
chord planning - correct answer ✔✔harmonic movements in a step-wise direction, thus
breaking the rules of functional harmony
pandiatonic - correct answer ✔✔all chords in a key treated equally with reguard to harmonic
function
polytonality - correct answer ✔✔music using two or more keys at the same time
poly-rhythm - correct answer ✔✔music using two or more rhythms at the same time
orchestration - correct answer ✔✔adaption of an original work for a combination of
instruments
(very little change to the original work)
arrangement - correct answer ✔✔adaptation of an original work for any group of instruments
where music is usually added, subtracted, and or changed
form for blues scale - correct answer ✔✔m3-W-H-H-m3-W
Igor Stravinsky - correct answer ✔✔-Russia (French American citizen)
solutions graded A+ passed 2025/2026
Claude Debussy - correct answer ✔✔France
-got in trouble in school for breaking the rules of conventional music
-winner of the 1884 Prix de Rome competition
-had lots of affairs and a woman tried to kill herself
- died from rectal cancer
-wrote three important piano works, 2 preludes, and a set of etudes
prelude a lapres-midi-donfaune - correct answer ✔✔tone poem based on French symbolist
poem
-later used as music for the ballet
symbolism - correct answer ✔✔a movement in the late 19th century arts
-believed that arts should aim to capture more absolute truths which could only be accessed by
indirect methods
impressionism - correct answer ✔✔describes the music of Debussy and others. the harmonies,
melodies, and rhythms of the music are clouded shifting to an obscure theme
Pattern for Major Scale - correct answer ✔✔W-W-H-W-W-W-H
Pattern for Whole Toned Scale - correct answer ✔✔W-W-W-W-W-W-W-W
Pattern for Chromatic Scale - correct answer ✔✔H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H
, Pattern for Octatonic Scale - correct answer ✔✔W-H-W-H-W-H
functional harmony - correct answer ✔✔harmonic movement set on a base of rules
non-functional - correct answer ✔✔harmonic movement with no set rules
chord planning - correct answer ✔✔harmonic movements in a step-wise direction, thus
breaking the rules of functional harmony
pandiatonic - correct answer ✔✔all chords in a key treated equally with reguard to harmonic
function
polytonality - correct answer ✔✔music using two or more keys at the same time
poly-rhythm - correct answer ✔✔music using two or more rhythms at the same time
orchestration - correct answer ✔✔adaption of an original work for a combination of
instruments
(very little change to the original work)
arrangement - correct answer ✔✔adaptation of an original work for any group of instruments
where music is usually added, subtracted, and or changed
form for blues scale - correct answer ✔✔m3-W-H-H-m3-W
Igor Stravinsky - correct answer ✔✔-Russia (French American citizen)
