| Question | Answer |
| What is a Sonata? | Solo instrument and piano, or solo piano
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What is a tremolando? | String technique – fast repetition of a note
| What is an Oratorio? | A story from the bible set to music, like an opera, features recitative, arias, duets, chorus
| A style of music which is a song sung in German with piano accompaniment. | Lied
| What style of music started around the start of the 20th Century, and features whole tone and chromatic scales? | Impressionism
| The name for a style of music which is made of recordings of everyday sounds. | Musique Concrete
| Monk Music – Sacred music sung by monks. Monophonic and Modal (also Organum). What am I? | Plainchant
| Describe a Mass | Sacred work using set Latin Text
| What Instruments are in a string quartet? | Violin x2, Viola, ‘Cello
| What is Recitative and what style of music can it be found in? | Have spoken, half sung, used in Opera to move the story along faster
| What is the name for music written for a small group of instruments? | Chamber Music
| The word used to describe music which is repeated, but gets faster because the note lengths get halved | Diminution
| A modern style of music in which Jazz is fused with more modern pop and rock ideas? | Jazz Funk
| What is the name for the scale used in early music (Renaissance)? | Mode
| What is the relationship between G Major and E Minor? | Relative Major/Minor
| The name given for the distance between 2 notes | Interval
| The name given to a short note, the same as a grace note | Acciaccatura
| What is a mordent? | Note, note below, note
| What chords form a Plagal Cadence? | IV-I
| What is a Pibroch?(N5) | Solo bagpipe piece
| What are Harmonics and what instrument plays them? | High pitched sounds played by string instruments.
| An interrupted cadence is form of what chords? | V-vi
| When a piece is in a minor key and finishes on a major chord | Tierce de Picardie
| What chord is formed of built up minor 3rds? | Dimished 7th
| What is Augmentation? | When the note lengths are longer, it gets slower
| Describe the form of a piece which goes ABCDEFG | Through Composed
| Describe a Concerto Grosso and the concepts associated with it. | Small group of soloists – concertino, larger group of accompanying orchestra – ripieno
| What is a Basso Continuo? | Harpsichord and bass instrument like cello or viol, used to fill in the missing harmonies when there were not enough instruments to play all the parts.
| What is Ritornello? | The A section which keeps coming back in Rondo form – ABACADA…
| What is A Cappella? | Unaccompanied vocal music.
| When was the end of the Renaissance period, and what period follow it? | 1600, Baroque
| How would you recognise a Pavan and what dance is it usually paired with? | Renaissance dance with 2 beats in a bar, Galliard
| How would you recognise a Galliard? | Renaissance dance with 3 beats in a bar
| What is a Motet? | Sacred work, Baroque, Latin text but not set.
| In what style of Renaissance music would you find a "Fa La La" Refrain? | Ballett
| What is a Madrigal? | Renaissance popular music, English, secular
| What is an Anthem? | Sacred vocal piece sung in English (English version of a Motet)
| Describe what you would hear in a Neo-Classical style piece. | Classical concepts, but made modern by more adventurous instrumentation, harmony, etc
| Describe the concepts used in Serialism. | Tone/Note Row, Inversion, Retrograde, Atonality, Chromatic Scale
| What is a Chorale? | German Hymn Tune
| What is the name for a style of music where the composer writes with strong influences of his/her home country? | Nationalism
| Daft Punk, Calvin Harris, Club type rubbishy music is known as...? | Electronic Dance Music
| A combination of Jazz and more modern instruments and techniques... | Contemporary Jazz
| The name of an ornament which sounds like a leaning note? | Appoggiatura
| Describe how a Turn would be played. | Note, note above, note, note below, note.
| What is a suspension? | When a note from a chord is carried over to the next one, causing a dissonance, which is then resolved.
| What is the interval from B-F? | Tritone
| The woodwind are playing in the key of A Major, the Brass are playing in the key of F Major, the Percussionists never know what key they are in, so have chosen D Major on this occasion, and nobody likes the strings so they are not here. What do you hear? | Polytonality
| In what style of music is a Note Row found? | Serialism
| What is the name for the concept when the music gives the impression of going between duple and triple time? | Hemiola
| Describe a Fugue and the concepts found in it | Subject, Countersubject, Answer, Exposition, Stretto, Polyphonic/Contrapuntal
| In the Renaissance period, when there are 2 separate choirs at opposite sides of the stage to create a stereo effect. | Antiphonal
| Name the interval between C - G | 5th
| The name for a group of Lieder played together | Song Cycle
| The name for a group of instruments of the same family playing together, like a group of recorders or viols. | Consort
| Very high, pure sounding male voice | Counter Tenor
| A style of singing in German which is half spoken, half sung | Sprechgesang
| In my ensemble are a clarinet, piano and 'cello. What kind of group do I play in? | Piano Trio |
