Intermediate Piano Quiz

This is a multiple choice quiz with 30 questions. Each question has 4 answers. One of them is correct. You need to pass this quiz with 100%. If you fail, you can do it again until all questions are answered correctly. Please answer all questions before you click “finish”. Once you finished the quiz, correct answers will show in green and wrong answers in red. The time limit for answering the quiz is 15 minutes. After timer finished the count-downing, the quiz will be submitted automatically. You need to turn your computer speakers ON since the questions also have sound samples. You also can use the Music Dictionary and Keyboard while taking the quiz. For additional theory study you can go here.

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Intermediate Quiz

This quiz is for INTERMEDIATE students. It contains question of elevated music knowledge. Enter your first name after starting the quiz.
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The 4 notes from Beethoven’s 5th Symphony represent a...

Sequence

Phrase

Motif

Theme

2 / 30

Which of the following terms are articulations?

Staccato and Legato

High pitch and low pitch

Accidentals

Andante and Allegro

3 / 30

The main places for musicals are the theater districts of New York City and London. What is the main street for musicals in New York?

North Shore

Hollywood Boulevard

West End

Broadway

4 / 30

How many major keys do we have?

5 / 30

Which of the following examples is a dominant seventh chord?

G-B-D-F

F-A-C-D

C-E-G-B

A-C-E-G

6 / 30

Which statement is correct?

A is a tie, B is a slur

A and C are both ties

B is a tie, C is a slur

C is a tie

7 / 30

This graphic is knows as the...

Circle of Thirds

the Harmonic Wheel

Circle of Fifths

the Musical Clock

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This piece with a style of blues, played on the piano with a strong left-hand, fast beat is categorized as...

Bepop

Boogie-Woogie

Ragtime Piano

Stride Piano

9 / 30

A double dotted quarter note has how many sixteenth notes?

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The German keyboard looks the same as our keyboard but the keys have slightly different labels. It is C-D-E-F-G-A-H-C. The only black key that is different is the B-flat. On the German keyboard it is just a B. Only one composer was able to use his name for a melody on this keyboard. Who was the composer?

HAYDN

MOZART

BACH

BEETHOVEN

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What is the name of this composition?

Rush E

La Campanella

Moonlight Sonata

Hungarian Rhapsody

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What is the main reason that we have 3 minor scales and only 1 major scale?

because composers use only the melodic minor scale

because the natural minor scale has no leading tone

because the natural minor scale is never used

because the harmonic minor scale is only used in chords

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What are the primary chords in C-major?

C, A, and G

C, B, and A

F, C, and G

C, D, and A

14 / 30

A repeating bass pattern such as in Pachelbel’s Canon is called...

adagio

ostinato

rubato

staccato

15 / 30

Which of the following chords is diminished?

16 / 30

What you hear is...

a natural minor scale over one octave

an ascending chromatic scale over 1 octave

a descending chromatic scale over 1 octave

a diatonic scale over one octave

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A major scale has its half tone intervals at...

2-3 and 5-6.

2-3 and 7-8.

3-4 and 6-7.

3-4 and 7-8.

18 / 30

The action of assigning a cord to a melody is also called

target note

inversion

circle of fifths

harmonization

19 / 30

The harmonic A minor scale has a...

A-sharp

G-sharp

C-sharp

F-sharp

20 / 30

Which of the following terms is NOT an ornament?

trill

treble clef

turn

mordent

21 / 30

This Mozart composition is...

A musical Joke

Don Giovanni

A Little Night Music

The Magic Flute

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Accidentals are sharps, flats, double-sharps, double-flats or natural signs that are...

appear in a measure and are only valid for that measure

valid for the whole song

always appearing on ledger lines

part of the key signature

23 / 30

The above note pattern is representing a...

sequence

chromatic scale

motif

chord inversion

24 / 30

This voice leading is not common in older classical music. However, it is used in some more modern compositions. How would you name this voice leading?

parallel fourths

parallel sixths

parallel thirds

parallel fifths

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The middle pedal of a grand piano is called the Sostenuto Pedal. A student came and mentioned that the middle pedal on his new Grand Piano does not work. What happened most likely?

the pedal only works in combination with the damper pedal

he didn't step enough on the pedal

the piano is broke

he did not push a key before activating the pedal

26 / 30

This is a...

C-augmented chord

C-minor chord

C-diminished chord

C-major chord

27 / 30

The picture shows a...

stride pattern

walking bass

sequence.

motif

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Primary chords for common song accompaniment are..

V, VI, and II

I, III, and VII

I, IV, and V

II, III, and VII

29 / 30

Which of the following intervals is dissonant? The two tones are played together.

C-E

C-C (octave)

C-G

B-C

30 / 30

What is ritardando or rit.?

getting gradually faster

getting gradually slower

getting gradually louder

getting gradually softer

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