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OAE MUSIC EXAM WITH COMPLETE QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS (DETAILED
ANSWERS) ALREADY GRADED A+ 100%
GUARANTEED TO PASS CONCEPTS!!!.
Whole Tone Scale - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ Contains six
notes a whole step apart from one another. This scale is
most closely associated with Impressionist music.
Phrase Structure - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ Melodic
characteristics usually described as ABA, or ABBA, ABAB,
ABAC, etc.
Appalachian Folk Songs - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ Often
intended for dancing and feature clear simple phrase
structures such as ABAB.
Cadences - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ Authentic: V-I
Plagal: IV-I
Half: End on V
Deceptive: V-IV
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Order of Tempo - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ - Larghissimo
(24 bpm)
- Grave (25-45 bpm)
- Largo (40-60 bpm)
- Larghetto (60-66 bpm)
- Adagio (66-76 bpm)
Andante/Walking Pace (76-108 pm)
- Moderato (108-120 bpm)
- Allegro (120-168 bpm)
-Vivace (168-176 bpm)
- Presto (168-200 bpm)
Diminuendo - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ A term which
indicates a decrease in volume.
Tarantella - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ A lively, and
sometimes flirtatious, folk dance that usually features a
3/8 or 6/8 time signature.
March - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ Can be written in any
time signature, but the most common time signatures are
4/4, 2/2
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A Turn Symbol (Strings) - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ 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 - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ Late Renaissance
vocal music features the musical illustration of ideas
suggested by the text.
Four-Bar Phrasing - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ A typical
feature of the classical era is the organization of music
into symmetrical groupings of short phrases, often four
measures in length.
Zydeco - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ 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 - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ Style of jazz that
flourishes in the 1930s and 1940s and was played by
big bands.
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Bebop - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ A type of jazz originating
in the 1940s and characterized by complex harmony
and rhythms.
Dixieland - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ 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 - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ A musical composition
with a free form and often an improvisatory style.
Toccata - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ A musical composition
for a keyboard instrument designed to exhibit the
performer's touch and technique.
Allemande - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ A musical composition
or movement (as in a baroque suite) in moderate tempo
and duple or quadruple time.
Fugue - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ A polyphonic genre
featuring the alternation of the tonic subject with non-
tonic thematic entries.
OAE MUSIC EXAM WITH COMPLETE QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS (DETAILED
ANSWERS) ALREADY GRADED A+ 100%
GUARANTEED TO PASS CONCEPTS!!!.
Whole Tone Scale - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ Contains six
notes a whole step apart from one another. This scale is
most closely associated with Impressionist music.
Phrase Structure - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ Melodic
characteristics usually described as ABA, or ABBA, ABAB,
ABAC, etc.
Appalachian Folk Songs - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ Often
intended for dancing and feature clear simple phrase
structures such as ABAB.
Cadences - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ Authentic: V-I
Plagal: IV-I
Half: End on V
Deceptive: V-IV
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Order of Tempo - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ - Larghissimo
(24 bpm)
- Grave (25-45 bpm)
- Largo (40-60 bpm)
- Larghetto (60-66 bpm)
- Adagio (66-76 bpm)
Andante/Walking Pace (76-108 pm)
- Moderato (108-120 bpm)
- Allegro (120-168 bpm)
-Vivace (168-176 bpm)
- Presto (168-200 bpm)
Diminuendo - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ A term which
indicates a decrease in volume.
Tarantella - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ A lively, and
sometimes flirtatious, folk dance that usually features a
3/8 or 6/8 time signature.
March - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ Can be written in any
time signature, but the most common time signatures are
4/4, 2/2
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A Turn Symbol (Strings) - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ 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 - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ Late Renaissance
vocal music features the musical illustration of ideas
suggested by the text.
Four-Bar Phrasing - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ A typical
feature of the classical era is the organization of music
into symmetrical groupings of short phrases, often four
measures in length.
Zydeco - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ 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 - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ Style of jazz that
flourishes in the 1930s and 1940s and was played by
big bands.
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Bebop - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ A type of jazz originating
in the 1940s and characterized by complex harmony
and rhythms.
Dixieland - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ 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 - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ A musical composition
with a free form and often an improvisatory style.
Toccata - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ A musical composition
for a keyboard instrument designed to exhibit the
performer's touch and technique.
Allemande - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ A musical composition
or movement (as in a baroque suite) in moderate tempo
and duple or quadruple time.
Fugue - ....ANSWER ....✔✔ A polyphonic genre
featuring the alternation of the tonic subject with non-
tonic thematic entries.
