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MUS-110 EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE (GRADED A+) In music, the word ___________ refers to the relative loudness or softness of musical sound. - Answers dynamics Pizzicato is the - Answers technique of plucking a string instead of bowing The Italian term for loud is - Answers ...

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MUS-110 EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE (GRADED A+)

In music, the word ___________ refers to the relative loudness or softness of musical sound. - Answers
dynamics

Pizzicato is the - Answers technique of plucking a string instead of bowing

The Italian term for loud is - Answers forte

The pitch of a sound is determined by it - Answers frequency

The traditional definition of music is - Answers the organization of sound in time

Unlike the other musical properties, distinctions in timbre are not measurable by ____________, but by
the shapes and frequencies of the _______________ produced - Answers degree; sound waves

A tuning fork that vibrates at 440 cycles per second produces a definite pitch A in the midrange of a
typical woman's voice, which is referred to as A 440. - Answers True

A 440 is the pitch that symphony orchestras use for tuning.

Mezzo piano indicates that a work can only be played on a piano. - Answers False

"Mezzo piano" is a dynamics marking that means "medium soft": louder than "piano" (soft) but softer
than "mezzo forte" (medium loud).

The Contrabassoon and bassoon are the highest, most flexible instruments in the woodwind family. -
Answers False

Bassoons are the lowest and largest instruments in the woodwind family (contrabassoons are larger
bassoons with an even lower range). Bassoons are so large that performers must sit down in order to
play them

The terms most commonly used for dynamics in a musical score are in Italian. - Answers True.

As discussed in the boxed insert "The Language of Music," Italian words are commonly used for
dynamics indications, in part because the practice of indicating dynamics in a musical score originated in
Italy.

Timbre is the only property of musical sound that falls on a continuum. - Answers False

Timbre is the only property that does not fall on a continuum and it is not measurable in degrees.

Timbre is the uniqueness of sound that distinguishes the sound of your voice from the sound of your
friend's voice. - Answers True

It also distinguishes the sound of musical instruments from each other.

, We use the word pitch to refer to the relative fastness or slowness of a sound. - Answers False

Pitch refers to the relative highness or lowness of a sound, and is determined by frequency of the
vibration.

When woodwinds are played, air vibrates within a tube. - Answers True

This is how woodwind instruments produce sound.

A chord is - Answers several notes sounding together

A major scale is a diatonic scale with half-steps only between - Answers the third and fourth and seventh
and eighth notes

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when composers wanted to write a work that
conveyed an upbeat, happy message, they generally used - Answers major mode

Form is the organization of musical elements - Answers in time

Pentatonic scales come down to us - Answers mainly in folk music

The word scale comes from the Latin word ______ meaning __________. - Answers scala, stairs

Ancient Greek music made use of only one mode. - Answers False

Atonal music uses one pitch as a reference point. - Answers False

Melody is an organized succession of pitches that present a complete musical idea. - Answers True

Melody, unlike language, is never organized hierarchically. - Answers False

Texture is a fabric of sound created by the interaction of a few of the parts of a piece of music. - Answers
False

Among the first professional musicians were - Answers minstrels, all around entertainers

An antiphon is a musical commentary on ____________________. - Answers a psalm

The first "true" singer/songwriters were - Answers Troubadours

The minstrels would ____________________. - Answers all of the above

(sing, play an instrument, recite poems, tell stories)

The rondeau is - Answers Answers A and B

(a multipart song with a recurrent refrain, the oldest of the song forms popularized in France)

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