MUSI 200 Week 1 Quiz

MUSI 200 Week 1 Quiz | American Public University System

What is the term for a musical texture with only one melody and no harmony?

Question options:

solophony

polyphony

homophony

Monophony Question 2                               

What is the best way to gain confidence listening to and discussing new musical genres?

Question options:

Practice listening to new music and describe it with musical terms.

Look everything up using a mass-fact website like Wikipedia or About.com.

Buy Western classical music on CD or MP3.

Read a book about new music.

Question 3                         

Music has been studied as a ____________ .

Question options:

biological element.

belief.

science.

citizenship requirement.

Question 4

What is a "motif" in music?

Question options:

a small chunk of a melody

an ancient instrument that is no longer used

a musical ensemble

the reason someone makes a decision

Question 5

_________ are changing volume levels of musical sounds.

Question options:

Melodies

Dynamics

Timbres

Tempos

Question 6                         

What are some examples of musical genres?

Question options:

Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven

Western classical music, Jazz, art music, and rock

piano, forte, and decrescendo

flute, trumpet, clarinet, and saxophone

Question 7                          10 / 10 points

What is used to label musical form?

Question options:

Italian words

Musical form is not labeled.

numbers

Letters

Question 8

Which new musical term is not discussed in chapter 1 of the Music Appreciation e-textbook?

Question options:

timbre

texture

Cadenza

Polyphony

Question 9

Rounds, canons, and fugues are great examples of which type of musical texture?

Question options:

monophony

sprechstimme

homophony

Polyphony

Question 10                       

Which of the following terms is not an instrument family?

Question options:

Electronics  

brass

percussion

woodwind