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Musical Terms

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Musical Terms game quiz
"Can you tell your Sonatas from your Chorales? I give you a definition, you click on the correct musical term to describe that definition. Surely it can't be that simple..."

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  



1. Name the musical term for the definition "A point of repose at the end of a phrase".
    Cantata
    Cadence
    Cadenza
    Chorale


2. What would be written to tell the musician to play "Sweetly and Softly"?
    Courante
    Nocturne
    Musette
    Dolce


3. This word is an indicative to perform the directed passage "with expression".
    Tutee
    Obbligato
    Ausdrucksvoll
    Quadrille


4. What is the musical term to indicate a "Moderate Tempo or Walking Pace"?
    Largo
    Allegro
    Presto
    Andante


5. There is a musical word for "two melodic ideas playing simultaneousely", but can you name it?
    Counterpoint
    Fermeta
    Capriccio
    Glissando


6. What is the musical term which would tell you to play something "with movement"?
    Legato
    con moto
    Refrain
    Rubato


7. What is "a specific scale or series of notes defining a particular tonality"?
    Sequence
    Tessitura
    System
    Key


8. What would be written to tell a musician to do something "little by little"?
    Vivace
    Scherzo
    Poco a poco
    Tremelo


9. This term would be written to tell a violinist to play something with the bow as a contrast to pizzicato?
    Da Capo
    Vibrato
    Arco
    Consonance


10. Name the instrumental form generally consisting of 3 sections - exposition, development and recapitulation.
    Canon
    Sonata
    Chorale
    Etude

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