Advanced Piano Quiz

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This quiz is for ADVANCED students. It contains question of exalted music knowledge. Enter your first name after starting the quiz. The email entry is also required. You will receive a certificate after you passed the quiz with 100%. The questions of this quiz are referenced to the Theory Books. You are allowed to use the Theory Book Content while doing the quiz!

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What is a Bass-Pedal-Point?
Fef: Book 9, pg. 29

A walking bass.

A sustained or repeated bass note.

An alternating tonic-dominant bass.

An Alberti-Bass.

2 / 30

MIDI is an often used acronym when it comes to connect musical instruments such as keyboards, sequencers, computers and more. It stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface.
Which of the following application is a typical MIDI setup.
Ref: Wikipedia

Connecting a digital keyboard to a laptop

Linking an audio stream to a keyboard

Combining two woodwind instruments

Connecting a harp to a violin

3 / 30

Sharpening the seventh tone of a natural minor scale gives us a leading tone. How is this scale called?
Ref: Book 9, pg 9

harmonic

melodic

super natural

leading natural

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Beethoven used modulation often to...
Ref: Book 12, pg. 27

show his enharmonic skills

confuse his students

bore the listeners

create a dramatic effect

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In Schubert's Moment Musiceaux there is a passage where the G-flat is altered to a F-sharp. This is the same tone. How do we call this switch?
Ref: Book 1, pg. 26

Inverted Accidentals

Accidental Overflow

Enharmonic Change

Sempre Staccato

6 / 30

Who composed this Waltz?
Ref: Book 10, pg. 24

Sergei Prokofiev

Alexander Borodin

Dmitri Shostakovich

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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A Trio is usually part of a Ragtime composition. It is usually written in the...
Ref: Book 12, pg. 30

relative minor or major Key

dominant key

subdominant key

same key as the beginning

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Eight notes have to be played with a long short pattern as indicated above. How do we call this rhythm?
Ref: Book 7, pg. 11

Sensual Rhythm

Blues Rhythm

Syncopation

Dance Rhythm

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Who is the composer of Clair de Lune?
Ref: Book 10, pg. 8

Frederic Chopin

Claude Debussy

Camille Saint-Saens

Robert Schumann

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A Diatonic scale is a seven-note musical scale that is well iknown since the beginning of your piano-playing. If we also include the black keys in the scale we will add up with 12 tones instead of 7.
How do we call such a scale?
Ref: Book 7, pg.13

duodecim

chromatic

pentatonic

plenus

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The red colored quart-six chord is often used in cadences. Which statement is true?
Ref: Book 9, pg. 20

The Quart-Six Chord is instable and should be avoided.

The Quart-Six Chord is stable and can be used as an ending of a song.

The Quart-Six Chord is instable and asks for the Dominant Chord.

The Quart-Six Chord is instable and is asks for the Sub-Dominant.

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Sonatas are usually based on the Tenary Form ABA. The first part of a Sonata is called a...
Ref: Book 7, pg. 2

Introduction

Opening

Exposition

Part One

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What is the name of this instrument?
Ref: Book 8, pg. 23

Church Organ

Theatre Organ

Positiv Organ

Barrel Organ

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How are the stacked keyboards called on a pipe organ?
Ref: Book 6, pg. 35

Manuals

Tiered Keylevels

Keyboard Layers

Keyboard Tiers

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A Whole Tone Scale is a type of a...
Ref: Book 9, pg 11

chromatic scale

hexatonic scale

blues scale

pentatonic scale

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From which instrument does the term Pedal-Point originally come from?
Ref: Book 7, pg. 29

Timpani

Piano-Forte

Organ

Harp

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Which statement is correct in regard to Modulation?
Fef: Book 12, pg. 2

For a Modulation the key signature always changes

Modulation is the same as Transposition

Changes of key can be either momentary or sustained.

A Modulation cannot be done by using Accidentals

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This is an excerpt from Mozart's Piano Sonata in C-Major (K545), 3rd movement. The first part of the highlighted area is...
Ref: Book 9, pg. 20Aff

a Picardi Third

a D-Minor chord

a Quart-Sixth Chord

a Napolitan Sixth-Chord

19 / 30

This piece comes from the Album "Bach on Abbey Road". Abbey Road is famous primarily because of The Beatles and two key things related to them: the iconic album cover and the Abbey Road Studios located on the street. John Bayless composed various Beatle Songs in Bach style. Which Beatle song is embedded in the above composition? Ref: Youtube

If I Fell

Can't Buy Me Love

Good Day Sunshine

Lady Madonna

20 / 30

How does a Harpsichord produce a sound?
Ref: Book 7, pg. 19

by plucking the strings

by hammering the strings

by touching the strings with the right hand

by streching the strings

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Please watch the video before answering the question. Beethoven's Piano Sonata Pathetique has an Adagio Cantabile movement . What does that mean?
Ref: Youtube

At very slow tempo, mostly played staccato

At a slow pace, in a songlike manner

At a medium tempo, played portamento

At a fast pace with strong legato

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Syncopation is a musical technique that involves placing a stress or accent on a part of the beat where it's not normally expected, or on "off-beats" rather than the strong, regular pulse. Which music piece has a lot of syncopations?
Ref: Book 7, pg. 8

Alla Turca from W.A. Mozart

The Entertainer from Scott Joplin

Moonlight Sonata from L. van Beethoven

Prelude in C-major from J.S. Bach

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The song Scarborough Fair (Alfred Book 1 pg.135) IS IN D-Minor. The Key-Signature has one Flat which is the B-Flat. However, during the song all B-Flat notes have a natural sign, leaving the song only using white keys. That means, the piece uses the same tonal inventory as the Major C-Scale. What is this music mode called?
Ref: Book 9, pg. 13

Mixolydian

Phrygian

Dorian

Ionian

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The 3rd Inversion of a G7 chord (Second-Chord) is resolved to a...
Ref: Book 5, pg 4

2nd inversion C-chord (quart-six)

F- chord in root position

1st inversion C- chord (sixth-chord)

C chord in root position

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A diminished chord for modulation...
Ref: Book 12, pg. 26

offers an universal bridge

us usually displayed on the circle of fifth graphic

should be avoided

is always resolved to a consonant chord

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To which Musical Texture does a Fugue belong to?
Ref: Book 7, pg. 17

Homophony

Monophony

Polyphony

Heterophony

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Apart of adding or subtrating stops, how can be added dynamics to the organ sound?
Ref: Book 8, pg. 12

By reducing the blower pressure

By using a swell box

By pushing the keys softer or harder

Additioal dymamics is not possible

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The II- V - I chord progression is predominantly used in which music genre?
Ref: Book 7, pg. 14

Folk Music

Bluegrass

Country Music

Jazz

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What is the Chord Progression of a Deceptive Cadence? Ref: Book 9, pg.3

IV - I

V - I

I - II

V - VI

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What is the primary benefit of improvisatin? It improves...

a wide range of artistic skills by creating something without prior planning

notation skills

the instrument's response

sight reading

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