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.
Which minor scale to use when
Transposing instruments
The tritone and its resolution
Monophonic, homophonic, polyphonic
Imitative vs non-imitative polyphony
Vocal ranges in part-writing
Sequence
Melodic dictation strategy
The augmented second problem
Perfect, major, minor, diminished, augmented
Sight-singing strategy
Compound intervals
Short answer 1. Define or explain: Minor key signatures
3 ptsShort answer 2. Define or explain: Melodic contour vocabulary
3 ptsShort answer 3. Define or explain: Consonance and dissonance
3 ptsShort answer 4. Define or explain: Interval inversion
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.