CBMT Exam Prep 2025/2026 Exam
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Binary Form - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔simplest music form; consists of a question and
answer section
Ternary Form - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔ABA form
Rondo Form - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔ABACA form
Sonata Form - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔ABA; derived from ternary form; used by classical
and early romantic composers
exposition - development - recapitulation
Minuet and trio Form - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔progression from ternary form. Follows
simple ABA form with a contrasting middle "trio" section
ABA CDC ABA
,Fugue Form - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a contrapuntal form, beginning with an initial
theme/"subject" and is successively taken up by other parts
Strophic Form - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔AAA; the same music is repeated with every
stanza of the poem
12 Bar Blues - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔I I I I
IV IV I I
V IV I I
AAB form
Major Pentatonic Scale - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1 2 3 5 6
Guitar string order (top to bottom) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔E A D G B E
Theme and Variation Form - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔theme is presented and then altered
in some way
Arch form - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔ABCBA; symmetrical structure within which a unit of
music progresses toward a midpoint and then more or less retraces its steps
Clave rhythm - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a syncopated rhythmic pattern, played on the
claves, in rumba, son, salsa, etc.
, 2-3
Tango rhythm - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔4/4 music from Argentina; 3-3-2
Waltz rhythm - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Music in triple meter 3/4, European style, such as
Gershwin
rubato - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔flexibility or stretching of tempo, which works against the
idea of structure
ostinato - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a musical pattern that is repeated, providing melodic
structure in form, rhythm, and melody
ritenuto - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔immediately slower
secondary dominant - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔an altered chord having dominant
relationship to a chord in a key other than the tonic typically preceding a specific
chord
grave - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔slow and solemn
largo - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔slow and broad
adagio - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔slow
lento - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔slow
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Questions and Correct Answers | New
Update
Binary Form - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔simplest music form; consists of a question and
answer section
Ternary Form - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔ABA form
Rondo Form - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔ABACA form
Sonata Form - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔ABA; derived from ternary form; used by classical
and early romantic composers
exposition - development - recapitulation
Minuet and trio Form - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔progression from ternary form. Follows
simple ABA form with a contrasting middle "trio" section
ABA CDC ABA
,Fugue Form - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a contrapuntal form, beginning with an initial
theme/"subject" and is successively taken up by other parts
Strophic Form - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔AAA; the same music is repeated with every
stanza of the poem
12 Bar Blues - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔I I I I
IV IV I I
V IV I I
AAB form
Major Pentatonic Scale - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1 2 3 5 6
Guitar string order (top to bottom) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔E A D G B E
Theme and Variation Form - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔theme is presented and then altered
in some way
Arch form - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔ABCBA; symmetrical structure within which a unit of
music progresses toward a midpoint and then more or less retraces its steps
Clave rhythm - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a syncopated rhythmic pattern, played on the
claves, in rumba, son, salsa, etc.
, 2-3
Tango rhythm - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔4/4 music from Argentina; 3-3-2
Waltz rhythm - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Music in triple meter 3/4, European style, such as
Gershwin
rubato - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔flexibility or stretching of tempo, which works against the
idea of structure
ostinato - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a musical pattern that is repeated, providing melodic
structure in form, rhythm, and melody
ritenuto - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔immediately slower
secondary dominant - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔an altered chord having dominant
relationship to a chord in a key other than the tonic typically preceding a specific
chord
grave - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔slow and solemn
largo - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔slow and broad
adagio - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔slow
lento - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔slow
3
COPYRIGHT©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
