MUSI 1306 FINAL PAPER UPDATED QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Pitch - ✔✔quality of sound, high or low sounds. Low pitches - long vibrating
elements. High pitches from short ones
✔✔4 different groups of voices - ✔✔1. sopranos (high females)
2. altos (low females)
3. tenors ( high males)
4. basses (low males)
✔✔Amplitude - ✔✔the level of strength of sound vibrations, the amount of energy they
contain and convey
✔✔Dynamics - ✔✔the level of sound.
✔✔Dynamic terms - ✔✔forte- loud- f
piano- soft- p
mezzo- medium- m
✔✔Subito - ✔✔sudden changes in dynamics
✔✔Cresendo - ✔✔a gradual change, growing
✔✔decrescendo - ✔✔a powerful blare fades into quietness
✔✔Tone Color/ Timbre - ✔✔produced in a more complex way than pitch and dynamics
✔✔String Vibrations - ✔✔Full Length
Half Length
Quarter Length and Three Quarter length simultaneously
✔✔Overtones - ✔✔fractional vibrations, much lower in amplitude than the main
vibrations
✔✔The amount and exact mixture of overtones are... - ✔✔what give a sound its
characteristic tone color. A flute has few but a trumpet has many overtones
✔✔Describing tone colors - ✔✔bright, warm, ringing, hollow or brassy.
ex. we can tell between smooth sound of violins, bright sounds of trumpets and the
woody croaking of a bassoon
✔✔Strings - ✔✔Violin, Viola, Cello, String Bass
, ✔✔Brass - ✔✔Trumpet, French Horn, Trombone, Tuba
✔✔Woodwines - ✔✔Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon
✔✔Percussion - ✔✔Kettle Drums, Snare Drum, Cymbals, Jazz Drum Set
✔✔This term refers to a gradual increase in the volume of a musical passage -
✔✔Cresendo
✔✔The only wind instrument that changes pitches with a metal slide - ✔✔Trumbone
✔✔When a composer wants a passage played very soft the music is marked - ✔✔pp
✔✔Meter can be described as - ✔✔A group of beats in patterns of two, three or four
✔✔The musical term for the level of sound is - ✔✔dynamics
✔✔Low pitches result from - ✔✔Slow vibrating elements
✔✔When we tap our foot or dance to music we are following the - ✔✔beat
✔✔which shows the correct order from lowest range to highest range in the violin
family? - ✔✔bass viol, cello, viola, violin
✔✔The human ear can hear frequencies of from __ to ____ - ✔✔20 to 20,000
vibrations per second
✔✔Which list the brass family in order from the lowest range to the highest? - ✔✔Tuba,
trombone, french horn, trumpet
✔✔A melody with a single melodic line without harmony or accompaniment is
considered MONOPHONIC - ✔✔True
✔✔An Interval is the distance between two pitches - ✔✔True
✔✔A diatonic scale includes all the white AND black notes on a piano - ✔✔FALSE
✔✔Motive is the term for a LONG and elaborate melody - ✔✔FALSE
✔✔A scale is a group of pitches arranged from low to high. scales determine the
sounding character of a melody - ✔✔True
✔✔The pitch of a sound refers to the LOUDNESS or SOFTNESS - ✔✔FALSE
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Pitch - ✔✔quality of sound, high or low sounds. Low pitches - long vibrating
elements. High pitches from short ones
✔✔4 different groups of voices - ✔✔1. sopranos (high females)
2. altos (low females)
3. tenors ( high males)
4. basses (low males)
✔✔Amplitude - ✔✔the level of strength of sound vibrations, the amount of energy they
contain and convey
✔✔Dynamics - ✔✔the level of sound.
✔✔Dynamic terms - ✔✔forte- loud- f
piano- soft- p
mezzo- medium- m
✔✔Subito - ✔✔sudden changes in dynamics
✔✔Cresendo - ✔✔a gradual change, growing
✔✔decrescendo - ✔✔a powerful blare fades into quietness
✔✔Tone Color/ Timbre - ✔✔produced in a more complex way than pitch and dynamics
✔✔String Vibrations - ✔✔Full Length
Half Length
Quarter Length and Three Quarter length simultaneously
✔✔Overtones - ✔✔fractional vibrations, much lower in amplitude than the main
vibrations
✔✔The amount and exact mixture of overtones are... - ✔✔what give a sound its
characteristic tone color. A flute has few but a trumpet has many overtones
✔✔Describing tone colors - ✔✔bright, warm, ringing, hollow or brassy.
ex. we can tell between smooth sound of violins, bright sounds of trumpets and the
woody croaking of a bassoon
✔✔Strings - ✔✔Violin, Viola, Cello, String Bass
, ✔✔Brass - ✔✔Trumpet, French Horn, Trombone, Tuba
✔✔Woodwines - ✔✔Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon
✔✔Percussion - ✔✔Kettle Drums, Snare Drum, Cymbals, Jazz Drum Set
✔✔This term refers to a gradual increase in the volume of a musical passage -
✔✔Cresendo
✔✔The only wind instrument that changes pitches with a metal slide - ✔✔Trumbone
✔✔When a composer wants a passage played very soft the music is marked - ✔✔pp
✔✔Meter can be described as - ✔✔A group of beats in patterns of two, three or four
✔✔The musical term for the level of sound is - ✔✔dynamics
✔✔Low pitches result from - ✔✔Slow vibrating elements
✔✔When we tap our foot or dance to music we are following the - ✔✔beat
✔✔which shows the correct order from lowest range to highest range in the violin
family? - ✔✔bass viol, cello, viola, violin
✔✔The human ear can hear frequencies of from __ to ____ - ✔✔20 to 20,000
vibrations per second
✔✔Which list the brass family in order from the lowest range to the highest? - ✔✔Tuba,
trombone, french horn, trumpet
✔✔A melody with a single melodic line without harmony or accompaniment is
considered MONOPHONIC - ✔✔True
✔✔An Interval is the distance between two pitches - ✔✔True
✔✔A diatonic scale includes all the white AND black notes on a piano - ✔✔FALSE
✔✔Motive is the term for a LONG and elaborate melody - ✔✔FALSE
✔✔A scale is a group of pitches arranged from low to high. scales determine the
sounding character of a melody - ✔✔True
✔✔The pitch of a sound refers to the LOUDNESS or SOFTNESS - ✔✔FALSE
