NBCT Music Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass

NBCT Music Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass Antiquity - Answer- 476-1450; marked by fall of Rome monophonic - Answer- one line with one sound homophonic - Answer- melody with harmony polyphonic - Answer- multiple melodies Pythagoras - Answer- weighed hammers to discover intervals Doctrine of Ethos - Answer- music has power to determine human behavior musica mandana - Answer- cosmic music musica humana - Answer- movement of spirits inside humans musica instrumentalis - Answer- music as it's defined today Characteristics of medieval chant - Answer- call and response, a cappella, male, no fixed meter, monophonic strophic - Answer- same melody, different words Ionian mode - Answer- major scale Dorian - Answer- flat 3, flat 7 Phrygian - Answer- flat 2, 3, 6, 7 Lydian - Answer- sharp 4 mixolydian - Answer- flat 7 Aeolian - Answer- natural minor; flat 3, 6, 7 Locrian - Answer- flat 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 Guido of Arezzo - Answer- inventor of solfege troubadour - Answer- secular musician from southern France trouvere - Answer- secular musician from northern France minnesinger - Answer- secular musician from Germany organum - Answer- medieval polyphony with precomposed Gregorian chant and one (or more) lines diabolus in musica - Answer- tritone vox principalis - Answer- original chant notated on top vox organalis - Answer- harmony written P5 away classical singing timbre - Answer- high palate, open sound, vibrato, pure vowel tones popular singing timbre - Answer- less vibrato, less palate control 3 registers for men - Answer- chest, head, falsetto 3 registers for women - Answer- chest, middle, head chest register - Answer- lower ranges, heavier tonal quality head voice - Answer- upper ranges, lighter tonal quality falsetto voice - Answer- highest ranges, breathy and airy tonal quality 3 main vocal parts involved in creating sound - Answer- air supply, vibrator, resonator root position chord - Answer- root is lowest sounding pitch first inversion - Answer- third is lowest sounding pitch second inversion - Answer- fifth is lowest sounding pitch third inversion - Answer- seventh is lowest sounding pitch authentic cadence - Answer- V-I or V-i perfect authentic - Answer- roots of both V and I in bass, tonic is highest sounding of last chord imperfect authentic - Answer- ends on other note than tonic deceptive cadence - Answer- V to anything but I half cadence - Answer- A cadence which ends with the V chord perfect authentic or plagal - Answer- both chords in root position and tonic is in highest voice imperfect authentic or plagal - Answer- chord is in inversion and tonic isn't in highest voice scale degree I - Answer- tonic scale degree ii - Answer- supertonic scale degree iii - Answer- mediant scale degree IV - Answer- subdominant