Music Fundamentals II: Minor Scales & Key Signatures, Melody, Timbre & Texture unit test
A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.
Imitative vs non-imitative polyphony
Interval inversion
Sight-singing strategy
Which minor scale to use when
Transposing instruments
Melodic dictation strategy
The augmented second problem
Minor key signatures
Relative vs parallel minor
Melodic contour vocabulary
Perfect, major, minor, diminished, augmented
Monophonic, homophonic, polyphonic
Short answer 1. Define or explain: Sequence
3 ptsShort answer 2. Define or explain: Compound intervals
3 ptsShort answer 3. Define or explain: Timbre vocabulary
3 ptsShort answer 4. Define or explain: Consonance and dissonance
3 ptsFree response
7 ptsAnswer each of the following.
A key signature contains three flats. Name the major key, name its relative minor, and list the flats in the order they appear.
Write the ascending C harmonic minor scale using letter names with accidentals, and state which degree is altered relative to natural minor.
Write the C melodic minor scale ascending and then descending, using letter names with accidentals.
Explain the difference between a relative minor and a parallel minor, naming the parallel minor of C major and the relative major of A minor.
Classify each of the following textures: a single unaccompanied vocal line; a folk song with block-chord guitar accompaniment; a fugue in which three voices each present the subject independently.
Define conjunct and disjunct melodic motion.
A clarinet and a violin play the same written pitch at the same dynamic level. Name the property that allows a listener to tell them apart and explain what physically produces it.