Y8 Music 1st Term

Polyphonic refers to

• a range of different tones.

• different notes being played at the same time.

• different rhythms played at the same time.

• a rhythm played with syncopation.

Falsetto refers to

• a false voice.

• the lowest register on can sing.

• singing with vibrato.

• the highest register in which one can sing.

When a group of singers sing a line which is then repeated by a soloist, this is called

• call and response

• call and answer

• tell and respond

• call and tell

Africa is the largest country in the world.

• True

• False

Texture refers to

• how music feels.

• how music is begun.

• how music is layered.

• how music is played.

A rhythm which emphasizes the "weaker beats" and creates an off-beat feel is called

• constipation

• syncopation

• rock and roll

• jazz

Ostinato refers to

• the city where Mozart was born

• a rest in music

• a repeated note

• a repeated musical pattern

This is a term applied to vocal music when the singing parts are within a small pitch range of each other.

• Close harmony

• Jumped harmony

• Harmony

• Treble

These are the two types of percussion instruments:

• slap and shake

• poly-rhythmic and tonal

• tuned and untuned

• shake and scrape

Two lines of lyrics (or poetry) which have rhyming words at the end.

• rhyming couplet

• AB rhyme

• AA/BB rhyme

• a song