Quiz 1: Notation

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1

What are the alphabetic names of notes, note numbers or sol fah names used to label different pitches?

Pitch names

2

What raises the note by a semitone (next sound up)

Sharp

3

What lowers the note by a semitone (Next sound down)

Flat

4

What interval embracing eight notes of a major scale.

Octave

5

What is lowest to the highest note of the composition or instrument/voice called?

Range

6

What is the name for the range of notes within the full range of the instrument?

Register

7

What describes the change in tone within a range of notes of the instrument or voice?

Tessitura

8

Major or minor key.

Diatonic key

9

What is the first note of the scale?

Tonic

10

What is the 5th note of the scale?

Dominant

11

What is the fourth note of the scale?

Sub-dominant

12

Give the name for a five-note scale associated with folk music from all over the world.

Pentatonic

13

Give the name for a seven-note scale containing only whole tones. The music sounds rather vague and mystical. Mainly found in the late 19th century impressionist style of Debussy and Ravel.

Whole tone

14

Give the name for an Indian theme upon which a Classical composition was built. Usually tarts slowly and increases in speed and drama.

Raga (Indian)

15

Give the name for an electronic effect on an electronic instrument where a sliding effect can be created with the pitch either upwards or downwards.

Pitch bend

16

Give the name for sliding sounds from one note to another. This is called portamento on a synthesiser

Glissando

17

What is the name for gliding from one note to the other may smooth some tonal transitions. On a stringed instrument such as a sitar one may, while staying on the same fret, pull the string to obtain some of the higher notes

Meend (Indian)

18

Clashing notes in a chord

Dissonance

19

One of a number of medieval scales.

Modal

20

Music in no definite key, without a key centre.

Atonal