Random Key Points

Question 1

What is a tessitura?

Answer 1

The range of notes in a vocal piece

Question 2

What is a cadenza?

Answer 2

A passage for soloist within a concerto (usually very difficult)

Question 3

What does virtuosic mean?

Answer 3

A technically demanding piece

Question 4

What does idiomatic mean?

Answer 4

Music written well for an instrument

Question 5

What chords make up an interrupted cadence?

Answer 5

V - VI

Question 6

What chords make up an plagal cadence?

Answer 6

IV - I

Question 7

What is rubato?

Answer 7

‘Robbed time‘ - flexible timing - (usually in Romantic piano music)

Question 8

What plays the basso continuo (in Baroque period)?

Answer 8

Keyboard instrument + other bass instrument

Sometimes bassoon - woodwind

Question 9

What 3 things could you use to describe a typical harmony?

Answer 9

• mainly diatonic
• occasional chromaticism
• ends with chords V - I (perfect cadence)

Question 10

What two percussion instruments play the melody in jazz?

Answer 10

• piano

- vibraphone

Question 11

If a trumpet or french horn is heard in a piece of Baroque music, what instrument always accompanies?

Answer 11

Timpani

Question 12

How many instruments play in a trio sonata?

Answer 12

4 (2 instruments for basso continuo)

Question 13

What is chest voice?

Answer 13

Lower range in singing

Question 14

What is head voice?

Answer 14

Upper range in singing

Question 15

What does recitative mean?

Answer 15

Cross between singing and talking

Question 16

What does sforzando (sfz/fz) mean?

Answer 16

Forced

Question 17

What is the Alberti bass?

Answer 17

Broken chords (classical period)

Question 18

What is the name for a D/F# chord?

Answer 18

Inversion chord (slash chord)

Question 19

What genre are muted trumpets often used in?

Answer 19

Jazz

Question 20

What is the subdominant?

Answer 20

The 4th note of the scale

Question 21

What is a sonata?

Answer 21

Work for solo + piano (or solo piano)

Question 22

What command word does imitation come under?

Answer 22

Texture

Question 23

What instrument techniques are often used in jazz?

Answer 23

Trumpet - muted
Piano - tremelo
Double bass - pizz
Drum kit - brushes