Musical Styles: SQA Higher Music quiz quiz

Ornate counterpoint, harpsichord and terraced dynamics

Electric guitars and a backbeat

A walking bass and improvised solos

Scotch snaps and a drone

A song that tells a stage story

A work for a solo instrument (or small group) and orchestra

A Scottish dance in four-time

A speech-like sung passage

A recitative is louder than an aria

They are the same thing

A recitative is for orchestra only

A recitative is speech-like and carries the plot; an aria is lyrical and reflective

An even, stepwise bass moving beat by beat; jazz

A continuous drone; bagpipe music

A repeated guitar figure; rock

A sudden accent; the romantic period

A written-out solo played from a score

The spontaneous creation of music during performance

A repeated rhythmic pattern

A change of key

A riff is slower

A riff is for voices only

They are identical

A riff is a short pattern repeated the same way; improvisation is a freshly invented, changing solo

Strathspey

Reel

Jig

March

Strathspey

Reel

Jig

Air

A change of key; the piano

A short repeated idea; the guitar

A continuous sustained note under a melody; the bagpipes

A speech-like vocal passage; opera

A classical bagpipe theme and variation

A rhythmic work song with a leader and chorus (call-and-response)

A fast dance in compound time

A slow, lyrical instrumental air

The classical theme-and-variation music of the Highland bagpipe

A jazz improvisation

A type of cadence

A fast reel

Strathspey

March

Reel

Jig

Guess from the first instrument you hear

Identify the features first and let them point to the style

Assume every excerpt is classical

Name the loudest section only

A walking bass and a backbeat

Terraced dynamics and a harpsichord

The scotch snap and the drone

A riff and improvisation