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Melody and Harmony: SQA Higher Music quiz quiz

15questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. Which SQA concept heading covers chords, cadences and the shape of a tune?

  2. What does a perfect cadence sound like, and which chords form it?

  3. Which cadence sounds unfinished, pausing on chord V?

  4. The plagal cadence is often described as which sound?

  5. What is the pentatonic scale?

  6. A melodic line that moves entirely in semitones uses which scale?

  7. How is the interval of an octave counted?

  8. What is a pedal in melody and harmony?

  9. What is modulation?

  10. Which device repeats a melodic pattern at a higher or lower pitch?

  11. What does the dominant seventh add to chord V?

  12. How do the acciaccatura and appoggiatura differ?

  13. What does it mean that the Higher Music concepts are cumulative?

  14. What is contrary motion?

  15. What kind of answer scores in a melody and harmony concept question?