Multiple
Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the
question.
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2/4 time signature
means
a. | there 2/4 beats in a measure | c. | there are 4 beats in a
measure | b. | there are 2 beats in a measure | d. | it is half of 4/4
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What one note fills an entire
measure in 2/4 time?
a. | whole | c. | dotted half | b. | quarter | d. | half | |
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3/4 time signature
means
a. | there are 3 beats in a measure | c. | there are 3/4 beats in a
measure | b. | there are 2 beats in a measure | d. | 3/4 time does not
exist | |
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What one note fills an entire
measure in 3/4 time?
a. | whole | c. | dotted half | b. | quarter | d. | half | |
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What one rest fills an entire
measure of 3/4 time?
a. | half | c. | quarter | b. | whole | d. | dotted quarter | |
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6. |
A dot after a note does
what?
a. | shortens the note | c. | increses it’s duration | b. | doesn’t exist | d. | makes it go faster | |
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A tie is a curved line
that
a. | joins two notes of the same pitch | c. | is something you wear
| b. | joins two notes of different pitches | d. | joins many notes
together | |
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A slur is a curved line
that
a. | joins two notes of the same pitch | c. | adds the value of all the notes
| b. | joins two or more notes of different
pitches | d. | tells you to play only the first note under the curve | |
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9. |
A quarter note and a dotted
half note tied together sounds like which note?
a. | double dotted half
note | c. | dotted half played twice | b. | half note | d. | whole note | |
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When you slur notes
a. | you play them short and choppy | c. | you don’t do anything
special | b. | you smoothly connect them | d. | you hold them for a long
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Repeat signs are two dots
before or after a
a. | treble clef | c. | double bar line | b. | bar line | d. | first ending | |
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If a pair of repeat signs occur
in music
a. | ignore them | c. | go to the coda | b. | play the music between them again | d. | stop playing
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When you add a flag to the stem
of a quarter note it becomes
a. | an eighth
note | c. | a half note | b. | a sixteenth
note | d. | you can’t add a flag to a note | |
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The system for counting eighth
notes uses:
a. | numbers and letters | c. | the “ee and ah” system for
counting | b. | the “and” system of
counting | d. | you can’t count eighth notes | |
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15. |
Two or more eighth notes can be
connected by a
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A dotted quarter note
a. | is counted like a dotted half note | c. | has three beats | b. | has 2 full beats | d. | has one and a half beats | |
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A dotted quarter note is
usually followed by
a. | a rest | c. | an eighth note | b. | a sharp sign | d. | two eighth notes | |
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An eighth rest
receives
a. | one eighth of a count | c. | one full count | b. | one half count | d. | nothing | |
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19. |
Another way of indicating a
repeat is with 1st and 2nd endings.
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20. |
Play through the 1st ending to
the repeat sign, then go back and when repeating skip the 1st ending and play the
2nd.
a. | True | c. | only in piano music | b. | False | d. | only in classical
music | |
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