MUC481 Melodic And Harmonic Writing (WEEK 7) Question Preview (ID: 42108)


Melody, Motives, Symmetrical Asymetrical. TEACHERS: click here for quick copy question ID numbers.

Succession of pitches in rhythm is called?
a) Musical Phrase
b) Melody
c) Chord
d) Harmony

What is one of the two basic elements of music
a) Harmony
b) Melody
c) Pitch
d) Chords

In music the natural areas to breath is called?
a) Melodic Inhale mark
b) Melodic Fermata
c) Melodic phrase
d) Melodic line

In the context of melodic motion, what produces a smooth vocal line?
a) Conjonct motion
b) Cronjunct motion
c) Condunct motion
d) Conjunct motion

Which is correct regarding disjunct motion?
a) Easy to sing
b) Difficult to sing
c) produces a smoother line
d) Moves in steps

What is the smallest unit of music that embodies enough of a shape and rhythm to be identifiable
a) Musical Phrase
b) Melody
c) Motives
d) Intervals

Which is not correct about musical motives?
a) It achieves its identity through repetition
b) Is often used as the main building block of a composition
c) The smallest unit of music
d) Is not the same as a musical 'idea'

Which is not one of the melodic contour?
a) Descending
b) Arch
c) Ascending
d) Static

What is name of the melodic motion that stays monotounous?
a) Static
b) Arch
c) Motionless
d) Stationary

Which is one out of the two Sequence developmental technique?
a) Inexact
b) Conjunct
c) Retrograde
d) Inversion

Which is not one of the melodic developmental techniques?
a) Truncation
b) Retrograde
c) Disjuncture
d) Ornamentation

Which developmental technique retains all the main notes of a motive or phrase but embelishes them?
a) Interversion
b) Conjunction
c) Permutation
d) Ornamentation

The developmental technique 'diminution'...
a) Shortens the note values
b) Lenghten the note values
c) Lowers the pitches
d) Changes the note order

Which melodic developmental technique retains the rhythm and pitches but changes the order of pitches?
a) Inversion
b) Permutation
c) Segmentation
d) Retrograde

Below are the strategies in finding ideas for a motive, except?
a) Language
b) Scenery
c) Drawings
d) Non above

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