The document contains a multiple choice music test covering topics such as key signatures and their relative minors, the subdominant degree of the scale, chord types including dominant seventh, musical terms describing tonality, harmony using notes outside the key, common modulation destinations from C major, cadence types, short melodic ideas such as hooks, repeated patterns called sequences, ornament types including trills and acciaccaturas, repeated bass parts called riffs, Italian musical terms for tempos and articulations, note groupings of triplets, and notes played offbeat called syncopation. The test contains multiple choice questions in a question and answer format covering these common music theory topics.

1. GCSE MUSICMULTIPLE CHOICE TEST

2. What is the major key and what is the relative minor key for the following signatures?

3. D Major and B MinorG major and E MinorC Major and A Minor

4. B. G major and E Minor

5. F Major and D MinorG Major and E MinorC Major and A minor

6. F Major and D Minor

7. D Major and B MinorEbMajor and C MinorE Major and C# Minor

8. C. E Major and C# Minor

9. Eb Major and C MinorA Major and F# MinorB Major and G# Minor

10. B. A Major and F# Minor

11. EbMajor and C MinorDb Major and Bb MinorD Major and B Minor

12. EbMajor and C Minor

13. What is the name for the fourth degree of thescale?TonicSubdominantDominant

14. What is the name for the fourth degree of thescale?B. Subdominant

15. Which chord is V7?DominantB. Dominant seventhC. Diminished seventh

16. Which chord is V7?B. Dominant seventh

17. Which word could describe music that is in a minor key?TonalB. AtonalC. Modal

18. Which word could describe music that is in a minor key?Tonal

19. Which describes harmony using notes from outside the key?DiatonicChromaticModal

20. Which describes harmony using notes from outside the key?B. Chromatic

21. Which keys is a piece in C major most likely to modulate to?F, G or C minorF, G or DF, G or A minor

22. Which keys is a piece in C major most likely to modulate to?C. F, G or A minor

23. Which cadence sounds unfinished?ImperfectPerfectPlagal

24. Which cadence sounds unfinished?Imperfect

25. Which cadence sounds finished?B. Perfect

26. Which is a short catchy melodic idea?HookOstinatoImitation

27. Which is a short catchy melodic idea?Hook

28. Which is a pattern of notes that is repeated at different pitches?MordentSequenceLoop

29. Which is a pattern of notes that is repeated at different pitches?B. Sequence

30. Which ornament is sometimes called a crush note?TrillAppoggiaturaAcciaccatura

31. Which ornament is sometimes called a crush note?TrillAppoggiaturaAcciaccatura

32. Which could be a repeated one-bar bass guitar part?LoopRiffBreak

33. Which could be a repeated one-bar bass guitar part?B. Riff

34. Which Italian term means getting slower and broadening?LargoRitenutoAllargando

35. Which Italian term means getting slower and broadening?C. Allargando

36. Which Italian term means lively?RubatoVivaceAllegro

37. Which Italian term means lively?B. Vivace

38. Which Italian term means gradually speeding up?RallentandoAllegroAccelerando

39. Which Italian term means gradually speeding up?C. Accelerando

40. Which Italian term means slowish, at walking pace?AndanteModeratoRubato

41. Which Italian term means slowish, at walking pace?Andante

42. Which means three notes played in the time of two?Triple timeTripletPolyrhythm

43. Which means three notes played in the time of two?B. Triplet

44. Which means notes that are played offbeat?SyncopationPolyrhythmCross rhythm

45. Which means notes that are played offbeat?Syncopation

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