Lesson T4.1.1
T4.1.1 Tonalities Quiz: KS3 Music, Unit 4
20 questions
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The 20 questions
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What system of key centres and scales gives music a home note?
- Modulation
- Structure
- Ationality
- Tonality
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What is the primary home note that a key is built around?
- Dominant
- Tonic
- Subdominant
- Leading note
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What does a major tonality usually sound like?
- Bright and happy
- Dark and mournful
- Strange and atonal
- Quiet and unpitched
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How many flats are in the key signature of C minor?
- Two flats
- Four flats
- One flat
- Three flats
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What music style uses scales with unique tone and semitone patterns?
- Modality
- Chromaticism
- Diatonic harmony
- Atonality
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What is a scale with a distinctive step pattern, such as Dorian?
- Cadence
- Interval
- Mode
- Chord
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What term describes music without a clear tonic or key centre?
- Tonality
- Diatonic
- Modality
- Atonality
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Which major key has exactly one sharp in its key signature?
- G major
- C major
- D major
- F major
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A song is in E minor. Which note is the tonic?
- B
- E
- A
- G
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A piece starts and ends on D and uses only the notes of the D minor scale. What is its likely key?
- D minor
- D major
- F major
- A major
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A pianist plays a melody that repeatedly returns to C using mostly white keys. Which key is most likely?
- C major
- B flat major
- C minor
- F sharp major
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What is the relative minor of C major?
- E minor
- A minor
- D minor
- G minor
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A key signature has two sharps. Which major key is this?
- D major
- A major
- G major
- E major
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Which note is in G major but not in C major?
- F natural
- E flat
- F sharp
- B flat
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What effect is most likely when a piece shifts from major to minor?
- Darker mood
- Faster tempo
- Higher pitch
- Louder volume
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Which degrees are omitted in a major pentatonic scale?
- First and eighth
- Second and fifth
- Third and sixth
- Fourth and seventh
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What musical flavour is typically created by using a modal tonality?
- Strictly romantic
- Modern atonal
- Ancient or folk-like
- Jazz swing
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A piece in D Dorian uses the notes D, E, F, G, A, B, C. What is the interval from D to F?
- Tritone
- Perfect fourth
- Major third
- Minor third
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Which of these key signatures has the most flats?
- B flat major
- F major
- C major
- G major
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What is the raised seventh note in a minor key called?
- Leading note
- Tonic
- Subdominant
- Dominant
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