Lesson 3.1.6

3.1.6 Area of study 4: Western classical tradition since 1910 Quiz: AQA Music, Unit 1

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The 20 questions

  1. Whose orchestral music is included in the since-1910 listening list?

    • Chopin
    • Mozart
    • Copland
    • Handel

  2. Which Hungarian composer's Hungarian Pictures is a study piece?

    • Dvořák
    • Bartók
    • Brahms
    • Liszt

  3. How many movements of Hungarian Pictures are study pieces?

    • Three
    • Four
    • Five
    • Six

  4. Which movement of Bartók's Hungarian Pictures is excluded from the specification study?

    • Movement 2
    • Movement 4
    • Movement 1
    • Movement 3

  5. Which orchestral suite is a set study piece composed by Zoltán Kodály?

    • Enigma Variations
    • Hungarian Pictures
    • Háry János
    • Rodeo

  6. Which minimalist composer is named in the Area 4 listening list?

    • Steve Reich
    • Hector Berlioz
    • Johannes Brahms
    • Claude Debussy

  7. Which of these is an Area 4 melodic element?

    • Hooks
    • Riffs
    • Blue notes
    • Motifs

  8. Which texture term is listed under Area 4?

    • Drones
    • Antiphonal
    • Monophonic
    • Unison

  9. Which musical term describes music where the home key or tonal centre is unclear?

    • Tonal ambiguity
    • Atonality
    • Modal harmony
    • Bitonal

  10. A passage uses chromatic and dissonant harmony. Which element type covers these?

    • Texture
    • Tonality
    • Sonority
    • Harmony

  11. A passage has notes stretched to twice their written length. Which term is this?

    • Syncopation
    • Augmentation
    • Diminution
    • Retrograde

  12. Which musical element category covers performance techniques such as vamping?

    • Dynamics
    • Sonority
    • Metre
    • Tempo

  13. A composer repeats simple patterns with gradual change. Which Area 4 style is this?

    • Minimalist music
    • Contemporary Latin music
    • Fusion music
    • Blues music

  14. A melody is repeated in a layered texture. Which texture term is listed?

    • Layered
    • Monophonic
    • Antiphonal
    • Unison

  15. A passage has irregular, free rhythms. Which Area 4 tempo term is this?

    • Compound triple
    • Irregular, free
    • Simple duple
    • Strict tempo

  16. A player gives a flexible, expressive tempo. Which term is this?

    • Pedal
    • Rubato
    • Ostinato
    • Melisma

  17. Which British composer is studied alongside Arnold, Britten, and Tavener?

    • Vaughan Williams
    • Edward Elgar
    • Maxwell Davies
    • Gustav Holst

  18. Which Hungarian Pictures movement is 'Slightly Tipsy'?

    • Movement 3
    • Movement 4
    • Movement 2
    • Movement 5

  19. What type of instrument is a cimbalom, featured in Kodály's Háry János?

    • Tuned percussion
    • Plucked lute
    • Bowed fiddle
    • Hammered dulcimer

  20. Which scale is built entirely of intervals of a tone?

    • Whole-tone scale
    • Pentatonic scale
    • Chromatic scale
    • Blues scale

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