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Rhythm and Tempo Concepts: SQA National 5 Music listening quiz quiz

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

  1. In compound time, each beat divides into how many?

  2. A steady three-in-a-bar dance with the stress on beat one, ONE-two-three, is a:

  3. A firm two-in-a-bar piece you could march to is in which metre?

  4. Placing the strongest accents off the beat, between the pulses, is called:

  5. A crisp short-long snapped rhythm on the beat, typical of Scottish strathspeys, is the:

  6. A relaxed, uneven long-short division of the beat, the easy lilt of jazz, is called:

  7. A long-short bumpy pattern that gives a jaunty, bouncing march feel is a:

  8. Music that gradually gets faster is marked:

  9. Music that gradually slows down towards the end of a phrase is marked:

  10. Flexible, expressive give-and-take timing, stretching and hurrying notes, is called:

  11. Holding a single note or chord longer than its written value is a:

  12. The term for returning to the original speed after a change of tempo is:

  13. One or more notes that come before the first strong beat of a piece, leading into it, form an:

  14. Three even notes squeezed into the time normally taken by two form a:

  15. Why does hearing a single triplet not make a whole piece compound time?