Area of Study 1, Musical Forms and Devices overview quiz - WJEC GCSE Music quiz

The Western Classical Tradition, about 1650 to 1910

Jazz and blues of the 1920s

Hip-hop and electronic dance music

Welsh folk song only

AB

ABA

ABACA

AABB

Rondo has only two sections

Rondo has no repetition at all

Rondo is always slow

Rondo returns the main theme several times between contrasting episodes

A theme is stated then repeated with each statement changed

Two completely different themes alternate

A single chord is held throughout

The same words are sung to new music

New music for every section

A dance in triple time

The same music used for every verse

A texture of independent lines

A single held bass note

A melodic idea repeated immediately at a higher or lower pitch

Accents placed off the beat

A surprise cadence

A short pattern repeated persistently, often in the bass

A change of key

A plucked string technique

A three-section form

A foot mechanism on a piano only

A repeated chorus

A single note held or repeated under changing harmony

A fast tempo marking

Syncopation

Sequence

Modulation

Canon

Chords I, IV and V

Chords ii, iii and vi

Only chord I

Chords vii and ii

Imperfect cadence

Interrupted cadence

Perfect cadence

There is no such cadence

Plagal cadence

Interrupted cadence

Perfect cadence

Imperfect cadence

Everything Must Go by the Manic Street Preachers

Anitra's Dance from Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite No.1

Eine kleine Nachtmusik by Mozart

The Planets by Holst

Full symphony orchestra

Brass band

Solo piano

Strings only plus a triangle

A slow march in 4/4 with heavy brass

A loud fanfare in a major key

Triple-time mazurka rhythm, light pizzicato texture and an ornamented minor melody

A monophonic chant with no rhythm