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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A shawm
B lute
C sackbut
Question #2
A shawm
B cornetto
C lute
Question #3
A FALSE
B TRUE
Question #4
A Perform melodic embellishments.
B Take rests.
C Take turns dancing.
D Correct any mistakes they may have made the first time.
Question #5
A quickstep
B merengue
C saltarello
Question #6
A a song collection.
B the name of Susato’s civic wind band.
C a collection of popular dances.
Question #7
A a cappella singing.
B polyphony.
C word-painting.
D organum.
Question #8
A sad and melancholy.
B serious and courtly.
C quiet and mysterious.
D light and pastoral.
Question #9
A not stated.
B a symphony.
C an overture.
D a classical song.
Question #10
A alto, soprano, bass, tenor
B soprano, alto, tenor, bass
C alto, bass, tenor, soprano
D bass, tenor, alto, soprano
Question #11
A nonspecific.
B secular.
C vernacular.
D sacred.
Question #12
A double bass.
B cello.
C viola.
D violin.
Question #13
A percussion.
B strings.
C woodwinds.
D brass.
Question #14
A the main tune rose in the brass.
B an increasingly polyphonic texture.
C a fast tempo.
D All possible answers.
Question #15
A snare drum
B bass drum
C cymbal
D xylophone
Question #16
A All possible answers.
B evaluative statements.
C comparisons.
D analysis.
Question #17
A Renaissance, Baroque, Romantic, Modernist
B Romantic, Classical, Baroque, Modernist
C Baroque, Renaissance, Modernist, Romantic
D Classical, Romantic, Renaissance, Modernist
Question #18
A different timbres in the orchestra.
B different rhythms.
C different harmonies.
D different dynamic markings.
Question #19
A a detailed list of the performers and instruments
B a comprehensive analysis
C a balance between descriptive and personal reactions
D a blow-by-blow description
Question #20
A conductor.
B first-chair violinist.
C first-chair cellist.
D first-chair violist.
Question #21
A membranophone
B chordophone
C idiophone
D aerophone
Question #22
A sound produced from a vibrating string
B sound produced from the substance itself
C sound produced by using air
Question #23
A music captured in cultural context by ethnomusicologists.
B the notated and cultivated music of European and Euro-American society.
C vernacular musics.
Question #24
A interprets the music.
B All answers are correct.
C rehearses the ensemble.
D beats time in metrical patterns.
Question #25
A membranophone.
B idiophone.
C chordophone.
D aerophone.
Question #26
A a reed section and a string section.
B only a reed section.
C a reed section, a brass section, and a rhythm section.
D only a brass section.
Question #27
A bass clarinet, English horn, trumpet
B oboe, piccolo, contrabassoon, guitar
C flute, oboe, bassoon, English horn, saxophone
D clarinet, piano, saxophone
Question #28
A sound produced by using air
B sound produced from a vibrating string
C sound produced from the substance itself
Question #29
A voice, strings, woodwinds, and brass
B woodwinds, brass, and percussion
C strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion
D strings, brass, and percussion
Question #30
A scale
B tonic
C tonality
D dissonance
Question #31
A quadruple
B poly-
C duple
D triple
Question #32
A contour.
B interval.
C cadence.
D range.
Question #33
A second
B third
C fourth
D first
Question #34
A occurs only in Western music.
B is a vertical aspect in music.
C is a musical line, or the tune.
Question #35
A dissonance
B harmony
C consonance
D octaves
Question #36
A tempo
B meter.
C scale.
D rhythm.
Question #37
A syncopation.
B chord.
C scale.
D interval.
Question #38
A measure.
B note.
C beat.
D tempo.
Question #39
A FALSE
B TRUE
Question #40
A drones.
B consonance.
C harmonies.
D syncopation.
Question #41
A diatonic.
B disjunct.
C diluted.
D dissonant.
Question #42
A countermelody.
B rhyme scheme.
C interval.
D cadence.
Question #43
A dissonant.
B ambulatory.
C a drone.
D consonant.
Question #44
A cadence.
B timbre.
C range.
D climax.
Question #45
A Compound meter
B Syncopation
C Quadruple meter
Question #46
A Meter
B Harmony
C Tonality
D Polyphony
Question #47
A upbeat.
B syncopation.
C consonance.
D irregular beat.
Question #48
A vertical
B horizontal
C tangential
D temporal
Question #49
A rhythm.
B harmony.
C melody.
D range.