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General Music Quiz 1.   semi-breve 2.   Bonnie Eats Apples During Gymn Class Faithfully 3.   Fat Cats Go Down Alleys Eating Bugs 4.   15 (1 with no flats or sharps, 7 with flats, 7 with sharps) 5.   4 beats 6.   a minor key that shares a common key signature with a major key;       ex: A Minor and C Major both have no flats or sharps 7.   false -- accidents last through a measure or until canceled 8.   the time signature of a piece of music 9.   a hold -- you sustain the note for at least 2-3 beats longer than the printed note 10. to indicate the degree of loudness and softness to be used in performing 11. a time signature in which the unit of beat is divisible by 3;       ex: 6/8 time when played in 2, 9/9 when played in 3, etc. 12. the speed a piece of music is played 13. 5 beats 14. playing in tune with other instruments 15. false -- timbre is tone color   Some Common Music Terms to Define Tempo Terms Style Terms 1.   fast & lively 2.   moderately slow & flowing 3.   fast, but not as fast as allegro 4.   very slow & solemn 5.   slow, between andante & largo 6.   slowly, leisurely 7.   slowly 8.   extremely fast 9.   moderately 10. very fast, vivacious 11. gradually slower & slower 12. gradually faster 13. gradually slower 14. resume tempo 15. hold back at a slower speed 1.  joyfully 2.  sweetly 3.  marked, emphasized 4.  calmly 5.  in a singing manner 6.  agitated 7.  smooth and connected 8.  majestic, stately 9.  lightly 10. expressively 11. with grandeur 12. gracefully 13. playfully 14. sustained 15. heavily Flute Facts Quiz 1.  true -- it is a wind (aero) instrument 2.  both; side-blown flutes are called transverse flutes and end-blown flutes are called     duct/fipple flutes (ex: recorder, Irish tin whistle), rim-blown flutes (ex: panpipes),     or notched flutes (ex: shakuhachi, tai-ping hsaio) 3.  headjoint, body, and footjoint 4.  how we hold our lips when playing a wind instrument 5.  Theobald Boehm 6.  piccolo and alto flute in G 7.  a study piece that presents one or more specific problems such as difficult rhythm      patterns, high notes, double tonguing, etc. for a musician to work on 8.  false -- Mozart wrote them for flute, violin, viola, & cello 9.  J. J. Quantz 10. The Stars & Stripes Forever by Sousa and Chimes of Liberty by Goldman 11. the D-flat piccolo 12. piccolo, E-flat flute, C flute, alto flute and bass flute -- less common ones are the       B-flat flute, contra bass flute, double contra bass flute, and contralto flute 13. false -- it sounds an octave lower; the piccolo sounds an  octave higher. 14. Grand Quartet in E Minor by Kuhlau and Sinfonico by Reicha 15. shakuhachi (Japan), di-tzu (China), bansuri (India), panpipes or zampogna      (Europe & South America), tin whistle (Ireland), and suling (Bali) are just a few 16. false -- the flute portrays a bird 17. Taffanel and Gaubert 18. Debussy 19. Daphnis & Chloe by Ravel, The Rite of Spring by Stravinsky, and The Planets       by Holst 20. today either flutist or flautist; in the past, fluter and flutenist were also used       Back to  The Quiz Page

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