Understanding Music: SQA Advanced Higher Music concepts quiz quiz

40 marks

20 marks

60 marks

100 marks

Only Advanced Higher concepts are examined

Every concept from National 3 through Higher is examinable, plus the Advanced Higher additions

Concepts are examined in alphabetical order

Only the most recent concepts count

A melody played by many instruments

A melody with many ornaments

A single line that implies two or more parts by leaping between registers

Two separate tunes played at once

The acciaccatura is longer and expressive

They are the same ornament

The appoggiatura is always in the bass

The acciaccatura is a quick crushed note of negligible duration; the appoggiatura leans and takes real time

A minor piece ending on the major tonic chord

A major piece ending on a minor chord

A type of cadence in the dominant

A French dance form

It must be loud

It must be prepared (held over from the previous chord), then sound, then resolve down by step

It must be in the melody

It must be chromatic

A change of key

A rapid repetition of one note

Two bars of triple time regrouped as three groups of two

A sustained bass note

A cross rhythm conflicts with one prevailing pulse; a polyrhythm layers two or more independent rhythms at once

They are identical

A cross rhythm is always slower

A polyrhythm only occurs in jazz

The lowest note of a chord

A bass solo

A type of cadence

A short bass line repeated continuously while the upper parts vary

Verse, chorus, bridge

Exposition, development, recapitulation

Theme, variation, coda

Subject, answer, episode

Playing with a mute, which veils and softens the tone

Playing very fast

Plucking the string

Playing two strings at once

They are the same

Tremolo is only for brass

Tremolo is the rapid repetition of a note; a trill rapidly alternates a note with the one immediately above

A trill is always slower

Continuo and terraced dynamics

Swing rhythm and blue notes

Alberti bass and balanced phrasing

Whole tone or pentatonic scales, parallel chords and orchestral colour

Because styles are not examined

Because the paper rewards the style deduced from audible concepts, and an unsupported label may be wrong

Because only Baroque is examined

Because labels are banned

Because key signatures are optional

Because all keys use the same signature

Because a major key and its relative minor share a key signature, so the music must decide which

Because the clef hides the key

Concert D

Concert E

Concert C

Concert B flat