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Rationales
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,Tarantella A lively, and sometimes flirtatious, folk dance that usually features a 3/8 or 6/8
time signature.
March Can be written in any time signature, but the most common time signatures are
4/4, 2/2
A Turn Symbol (Strings) Typically looks like a sideways "S" dictated on top of the staff to indicate the given
pitch should be ornamented with not above and below it.
Word Painting Late Renaissance vocal music features the musical illustration of ideas suggested
by the text.
Four-Bar Phrasing A typical feature of the classical era is the organization of music into symmetrical
groupings of short phrases, often four measures in length.
Zydeco A musical genre originating in Louisiana that is led by the accordion and often
features a drum set, electric bass, guitar, and metal washboard.
Swing Style of jazz that flourishes in the 1930s and 1940s and was played by big bands.
Bebop A type of jazz originating in the 1940s and characterized by complex harmony and
rhythms.
Dixieland A style of jazz, originating in New Orleans, played by a small group of
instruments, as trumpet, trombone, clarinet, piano, and drums, and marked by
strongly accented four-four rhythm and vigorous, quasi-improvisational solos and
ensembles.
Fantasia A musical composition with a free form and often an improvisatory style.
Toccata A musical composition for a keyboard instrument designed to exhibit the
performer's touch and technique.
Allemande A musical composition or movement (as in a baroque suite) in moderate tempo
and duple or quadruple time.
Fugue A polyphonic genre featuring the alternation of the tonic subject with non-tonic
thematic entries.
Marcato A musical instruction indicating a note, chord, or passage is to be played louder
or more forcefully than the surrounding music.
Pizzicato Technique of plucking strings rather than using a bow.
, Half Diminished Chord Consists of a diminished triad with a minor seventh above the root.
Whole Tone Scale A scale consisting entirely of intervals of a tone, with no semitones.
Octatonic Scale A scale that most often refers to the symmetric scale composed of alternating
whole and half steps.
Pentatonic Scale A scale which removes the 4th and the 7th from the major scale.
Blues Scale A musical scale consisting of 1, flat3, 4, sharp4, 5, and a flat7.
Arpeggiation Refers to the sounding of notes of a chord one after another melodically rather
than simultaneously.
Conjuct Motion The interval between two consecutive scale degrees. Any larger interval is called
a skip (also called a leap), or disjunct motion.
Parallel Period Indicates that the second phrase is a repetition of the first phrase.
Asymmetrical Period There is an uneven number of antecedents and conseequents.
Contrasting Period Form where the two phrases are completely different.
Retrograde Motion A musical term that literally means "backwards and upside down": "The inverse of
the series is sounded in reverse order."
Sonata-Allegro Form The primary structural form used in the first movement of symphonies, string
quartets, and sonatas.
Theme and Variations A very common musical structure you will come across, especially in classical
music. The structure is built upon a musical idea called the theme which is played
at the start of the piece, then altered a little by each following theme.
Passacaglia and Fugue It is usually of a serious character and is often, but not always, based on a bass-
ostinato and written in triple metre. combined with a fugue. Used quite often
during the Baroque period.
Sonata-Rondo Form A musical form often used during the Classical music era. As the name implies, it is
a blend of sonata form and rondo form.
Rondo Form Involves the repeated use of a theme, set in the tonic key, with episodes, each
involving a new theme, intervening among the repetitions.
PRACTICE QUESTIONS, ANSWERS &
RATIONALES (OHIO TEACHER
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Updated 2026 Questions and Answers
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Rationales
Included
,Tarantella A lively, and sometimes flirtatious, folk dance that usually features a 3/8 or 6/8
time signature.
March Can be written in any time signature, but the most common time signatures are
4/4, 2/2
A Turn Symbol (Strings) Typically looks like a sideways "S" dictated on top of the staff to indicate the given
pitch should be ornamented with not above and below it.
Word Painting Late Renaissance vocal music features the musical illustration of ideas suggested
by the text.
Four-Bar Phrasing A typical feature of the classical era is the organization of music into symmetrical
groupings of short phrases, often four measures in length.
Zydeco A musical genre originating in Louisiana that is led by the accordion and often
features a drum set, electric bass, guitar, and metal washboard.
Swing Style of jazz that flourishes in the 1930s and 1940s and was played by big bands.
Bebop A type of jazz originating in the 1940s and characterized by complex harmony and
rhythms.
Dixieland A style of jazz, originating in New Orleans, played by a small group of
instruments, as trumpet, trombone, clarinet, piano, and drums, and marked by
strongly accented four-four rhythm and vigorous, quasi-improvisational solos and
ensembles.
Fantasia A musical composition with a free form and often an improvisatory style.
Toccata A musical composition for a keyboard instrument designed to exhibit the
performer's touch and technique.
Allemande A musical composition or movement (as in a baroque suite) in moderate tempo
and duple or quadruple time.
Fugue A polyphonic genre featuring the alternation of the tonic subject with non-tonic
thematic entries.
Marcato A musical instruction indicating a note, chord, or passage is to be played louder
or more forcefully than the surrounding music.
Pizzicato Technique of plucking strings rather than using a bow.
, Half Diminished Chord Consists of a diminished triad with a minor seventh above the root.
Whole Tone Scale A scale consisting entirely of intervals of a tone, with no semitones.
Octatonic Scale A scale that most often refers to the symmetric scale composed of alternating
whole and half steps.
Pentatonic Scale A scale which removes the 4th and the 7th from the major scale.
Blues Scale A musical scale consisting of 1, flat3, 4, sharp4, 5, and a flat7.
Arpeggiation Refers to the sounding of notes of a chord one after another melodically rather
than simultaneously.
Conjuct Motion The interval between two consecutive scale degrees. Any larger interval is called
a skip (also called a leap), or disjunct motion.
Parallel Period Indicates that the second phrase is a repetition of the first phrase.
Asymmetrical Period There is an uneven number of antecedents and conseequents.
Contrasting Period Form where the two phrases are completely different.
Retrograde Motion A musical term that literally means "backwards and upside down": "The inverse of
the series is sounded in reverse order."
Sonata-Allegro Form The primary structural form used in the first movement of symphonies, string
quartets, and sonatas.
Theme and Variations A very common musical structure you will come across, especially in classical
music. The structure is built upon a musical idea called the theme which is played
at the start of the piece, then altered a little by each following theme.
Passacaglia and Fugue It is usually of a serious character and is often, but not always, based on a bass-
ostinato and written in triple metre. combined with a fugue. Used quite often
during the Baroque period.
Sonata-Rondo Form A musical form often used during the Classical music era. As the name implies, it is
a blend of sonata form and rondo form.
Rondo Form Involves the repeated use of a theme, set in the tonic key, with episodes, each
involving a new theme, intervening among the repetitions.
