QUIZ 3 (Chapters Prelude-6)
Question 1 According to your text, the musical element that makes the widest and most direct appeal is:
melody.
Question 2 The distance between the highest and lowest tones of a melody is called:
the range.
Question 3 The distance between two different pitches is called:
an interval.
Question 4 The resting place at the end of a phrase is called:
cadence.
Question 5 Most music cultures share the concept of melody or musical line.
True
Question 6 Disjunct motion describes melodies that skip in disjointed intervals.
True
Question 7 The element of music that organizes movement in time is:
rhythm.
Question 8 The basic unit of rhythm that divides time into equal segments is called:
the beat.
Question 9 In triple meter, the strongest pulse occurs on:
the first beat.
Question 10 The patriotic song America (“My country ’tis of thee”) is an example of:
triple meter.
Question 11 Syncopation is a rhythmic characteristic of American jazz.
True
Question 12 All world musics feature a strong regular pulse or beat
False
Question 13 A combination of three or more tones that constitutes a single block of harmony is called:
a chord.
Question 14 The principle of organization around a central tone is called:
tonality.
Question 15 Should a composer write a film score to a horror movie, one might reasonably expect that
the harmony would include a great deal of:
dissonance.
Question 16 Melody and harmony function independently of one another.
False
Question 17 The use of a drone, or sustained tone underlying a melody, is common in some European
folk musics.
True
Question 18 When two or more independent melodic lines are combined, the resulting texture is called:
polyphonic.
Question 19 A texture in which a single voice takes over the melodic interest while the accompanying
voices are subordinate is called:
