RCM Level 8 History Exam 2025 with All Questions and Answers| Music Q&A
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RCM Level 8 History Exam 2025 with All
Questions and Answers| Music Q&A
What is the relationship between raga and tala in Indian classical music?
Raga provides the melodic structure, while tala provides the rhythmic framework for the
performance.
What characteristic of *Sumer Is Icumen In* ...
RCM Level 8 History Exam 2025 with All
Questions and Answers| Music Q&A
What is the relationship between raga and tala in Indian classical music?
Raga provides the melodic structure, while tala provides the rhythmic framework for the
performance.
What characteristic of *Sumer Is Icumen In* makes it one of the most notable works of early
polyphonic music?
Its use of an ostinato in the lower voices, giving the piece a dance-like feel.
What is the cultural significance of the frottola in the development of Renaissance Italian music?
It served as a popular secular genre with playful themes and light-hearted musical
techniques.
What musical genre combines both drama and music to convey moral lessons through symbolic
characters?
Morality play.
Which texture is characterized by a single unaccompanied melodic line in music?
Monophonic texture.
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, What early genre of Western music features unmeasured rhythm and is performed in Latin, often
in religious contexts?
Plainchant.
How are modes in music defined in terms of their structure?
They are scale patterns that determine the relationships between whole and half steps.
Which Medieval work by Hildegard von Bingen features a battle between virtues and vices, with
an emphasis on monophonic melodies?
*Ordo Virtutum*.
What musical texture involves multiple independent melodic lines performed simultaneously?
Polyphonic texture.
What term refers to a vocal or instrumental piece in which the melody repeats in each voice,
creating strict imitation?
Rota.
What term is used to describe a repetitive musical figure that appears throughout a piece, often in
the bass or accompaniment?
Ostinato.
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