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How much do you remember from Year 7 Music?
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- 1Name the 4 groups that all instruments can be divided into when categorised by how they produce sound.Membranophone
Idiophone
Chordophone
Aerophone - 2What name do you give to all instruments that have strings?Chordophones
- 3What name do you give to all instruments which you must hit or shake to produce sound?Idiophones
- 4What name do you give to all instruments that require air passing through them to produce sound?Aerophone
- 5What name do you give to all instruments that have a skin stretched over a hollow surface?Membranophone
- 6Name 3 examples of vocal techniques used by African vocalists.Acapella, Call and Response, Animal cries
- 7What is the term in Music given to a repeated melodic or rhythmic pattern?Ostinato
- 8What is the term in Music given to singing without instrumental accompaniment?Acapella
- 9What is the term used to describe many layers of rhythms heard against each other?Polyrhythm
- 10What is the term given in music when one instrument or vocalists begins and then another enters the song and then another?Staggered Entry
- 11True or False? In music the first 8 letters of the alphabet are used to depict different pitches?False- Only the first 7 are used: A, B,C,D,E,F,G
- 12Can you sing up the scale using solfa?Do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do
- 13Can you sing down the scale using solfa? (Extension Question)do, ti, la, so, fa, mi, re, do
- 14How many notes in a Major scale?8 notes.
eg: C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C - 15How many notes in a Pentatonic Scale?5
- 16Which solfa names get removed from the Major scale to form the Pentatonic scale?Fa & Ti
Pentatonic Scale= Do, Re, Mi, So, La - 17What word do you remember to help you remember the notes in the spaces of the treble clef stave?FACE
- 18What sentence helps you to remember the notes on the lines of the treble clef stave?Every Good Boy Deserves Fruit (or Ferari's)
OR Every Good Burger Deserves Fries - 19Do you remember how to work out the notes on the bass clef?Spaces: All Cows Eat Grass
Lines: Good Boys Deserve Fruit Always OR Gabby Buys Drums From Africa - 20Where do you find the note 'C' on the keyboard?C is to the left of the 2 black keys
- 21True or False? The letters on the keyboard are in alphabetical order?True
- 22When asked to describe an instruments Tone Colour. What are you being asked to do?Describing an instruments tone colour means describing the unique tone or sound that the instrument makes.
- 23When asked to comment on 'Dynamics' what are you being asked to do?Comment on the volume changes in the music.
- 24When asked to comment on the 'Texture' of a song or piece of music what are you being asked to do?Texture refers to layers in the music. Each instrument and voice is another layer. Is the texture thick (Many layers) or thin (few layers)?
- 25When asked about the 'tempo' of a song what are you being asked?Tempo = speed. You are beig asked to comment on how fast or slow or the gradual changes in speed throughout the song.
- 26What is the Italian word in music which means 'play softly'?piano
- 27What is the Italian word in Music which means 'play loudly'?FORTE
- 28What is the name given to this symbol in music '#' and what does it mean?SHARP- it means play a semitone higher (usually a lack note)
- 29What is the name given to this symbol in music 'b' and what does it mean?FLAT- it means play the note a semitone lower (usually a black note)
- 30What is meant by the word semitone?The shortest distance between 2 notes. eg C-C#
- 31What is meant by the word 'Tone' when refering to distance between 2 notes?Tone = 2 semitones, eg C-D
- 32What is the pattern of Tones and Semitones for every Major scale? (Extension Question)T, T, St, T, T, T, St (T=tone, St=Semitone)
- 33List the order of notes and their values from longest held note to shortest held note.Semibreve (4 beats), Minim (2 beats), Crotchet (1 beat), Quaver (1/2 beat), Semiquaver (1/4 beat)
- 34True or False? Every note in music, including dotted notes, have a rest of equal value?True. (Dots can be added to rests as well as notes)
- 35How many beats is a dotted minim worth? How do you work it out?3 beats. (A minim is worth 2 beats and a dot adds on 1/2 the original value, 1/2 of 2 =1, so 2 +1 =3)
- 36How many beats per bar if the time signature is 4/4?4
- 37How many beats in the music if the time signature is 3/4?3
- 38Name 5 keyboard instruments used throughout history:Pipe organ, Harpsichord, Clavichord, Hammond Organ, Pipe Organ, Piano, Electronic keyboard/ Digital piano.
- 39What is the note which is one octave above C?C (An octave is 8 notes, C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C) An octave above is always the same note, only higher.
- 40Name the 4 families of the Orchestra.Strings, Percussion, Brass, Woodwind.
- 41Which family does the cello belong to?String family
- 42Which family does the flute belong to?Woodwind
- 43Which family does the saxophone belong to?Woodwind (Because of its mouthpiece)
- 44What is a conductor in Music?The person who leads the Orchestra.
- 45What is a composer?A composer is the person who writes/ creates the music. (like an author writes a book)
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