Grade 5 Music Theory ABRSM 100%
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What term refers to gradually getting louder in music?
✔✔ Crescendo
What is the term for a gradual decrease in volume?
✔✔ Decrescendo
What does "allegro" indicate about the tempo?
✔✔ Fast and lively
What does "adagio" mean in terms of tempo?
✔✔ Slow and stately
What term refers to playing the notes in a smooth, connected manner?
✔✔ Legato
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,What does "staccato" mean?
✔✔ Short and detached
What is the term for the note value that receives one beat in 4/4 time?
✔✔ Quarter note
What is a time signature that indicates four beats per measure with the quarter note receiving one
beat?
✔✔ 4/4 time
What term refers to the combination of two or more notes played at the same time?
✔✔ Harmony
What is the term for a series of notes that form a recognizable musical phrase?
✔✔ Melody
What term refers to a musical texture where one melody is supported by chords?
✔✔ Homophonic
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, What is the term for the scale that has no sharps or flats?
✔✔ C major scale
What is the term for a musical scale that consists of five notes?
✔✔ Pentatonic scale
What is the term for the distance between two notes?
✔✔ Interval
What is the term used to describe a rapid, repeated note or trill on a single note?
✔✔ Tremolo
What does "fugue" refer to in music?
✔✔ A compositional technique involving the systematic repetition of a theme in different voices
What is the term for the symbol that raises a note by one half step?
✔✔ Sharp
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Correct
What term refers to gradually getting louder in music?
✔✔ Crescendo
What is the term for a gradual decrease in volume?
✔✔ Decrescendo
What does "allegro" indicate about the tempo?
✔✔ Fast and lively
What does "adagio" mean in terms of tempo?
✔✔ Slow and stately
What term refers to playing the notes in a smooth, connected manner?
✔✔ Legato
1
,What does "staccato" mean?
✔✔ Short and detached
What is the term for the note value that receives one beat in 4/4 time?
✔✔ Quarter note
What is a time signature that indicates four beats per measure with the quarter note receiving one
beat?
✔✔ 4/4 time
What term refers to the combination of two or more notes played at the same time?
✔✔ Harmony
What is the term for a series of notes that form a recognizable musical phrase?
✔✔ Melody
What term refers to a musical texture where one melody is supported by chords?
✔✔ Homophonic
2
, What is the term for the scale that has no sharps or flats?
✔✔ C major scale
What is the term for a musical scale that consists of five notes?
✔✔ Pentatonic scale
What is the term for the distance between two notes?
✔✔ Interval
What is the term used to describe a rapid, repeated note or trill on a single note?
✔✔ Tremolo
What does "fugue" refer to in music?
✔✔ A compositional technique involving the systematic repetition of a theme in different voices
What is the term for the symbol that raises a note by one half step?
✔✔ Sharp
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