Pre-Advanced 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 30 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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This quiz is for PRE-ADVANCED students. It contains question of exalted music knowledge. Enter your first name after starting the quiz.
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What chord progression is this?

I - vi - IV - V

I - ii - iii - V

I - iii - ii - V

I - ii - V - IV

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What note is the enharmonic equivalent of B-flat?

A-sharp

G-Sharp

C-sharp

D-aharp

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A diminished (e.g. C Eb Gb A) cord...

is stable

is consonant

is dissonant

is very rarely used

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This is an authentic cadence, a musical phrase ending, that creates a sense of strong ending. What is the chord progression of an authentic cadence?

VI -> I (Am -> C)

II -> I (Dm -> C)

V -> I ( G -> C)

IV -> I (F -> C)

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What is the SUPERTONIC of the C-major scale?

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How do we call a sharp, flat, and natural sign that appears in a measure and is not part of the key signature?

modificator

accidental

attribute

incidental

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The right pedal of a piano sustains the sound of al played strings. However, it also excites related strings that are not struck. This is called...

Una Corda

Sympathetic Vibration or String Resonance

Pedal Noise

Unwanted Echo

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Please watch video before answering the question. What are the grace notes in Brahms' Waltz in A-flat Major?

notes that can be omitted

notes that have to be played slow

acciaccaturas

appoggiaturas

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The A above the middle C is also called the A4 or “concert pitch”. Orchestras use this tone to tune their instruments before a concert. What is the pitch of a standard A4?

360Hz

550Hz

400Hz

440Hz

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A musical instrument is made of about 12,000 individual parts. What is the name of the instrument?

Saxophone

Grand Piano

Chlavichord

Barrel Organ

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Who is the most famous Ragtime composer that composed the Entertainer and Maple Leaf rag?

Eubie Blake

James Scott

Scott Joplin

Fats Waller

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The term sixth chord refers to two different kinds of chord, one in classical music and the other in modern popular music. The original meaning of the term is a chord in first inversion, in other words with its third in the bass and its root a sixth above it. This is how the term is still used in classical music today. In modern popular music, a sixth chord is any triad with an added sixth above the root as a chord factor e.g. C6. In our example we refer to the classical sixth chord. Which statement is correct?

A sixth chord on a major C chord has an G in the bass.

A sixth chord on a major C chord has an E in the bass.

A sixth chord on a major C chord has an A in the bass.

A sixth chord on a major C chord has an C in the bass.

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Please watch video first before answering the question. Mozart's Lacrimosa from the requiem opens in D-minor and ends in D-major. This is achieved to raise the third of the triad by a semi-tone. This change is named according to a historical territory in France. Therefore, this cord change into major is known as the...

Beauvais third

Picardy third

Clermont third

Amiens third

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Please watch video before answering the question. Steinway Artist Lang Lang performs Mozart’s Piano Sonata No. 16 in C. How do we call the accompaniment on the left hand for the first 4 measures?

blocked chords

Alberti bass

arpeggiated chords

Vivaldi bass

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How does a Harpsichord produce a sound?

The strings are plucked

The strings are hammered

The strings are muted

The strings are touched with the hands

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Please watch video before you answer the question. This is Maurice Ravel's BOLERO. The piece is famous for its insistent, persistent rhythm and harmonic simplicity. Which statement is true?

L. van Beethoven also composed a Bolero

a Bolero is a Scottish folk song

a Bolero is a Spanish dance in triple time

Ravel's Bolero could be categorized as a baroque composition

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This note is actually a...

F-sharp

G-sharp

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Please watch video before you answer the question. Chopin's Fantasie-Impromptu uses many poly-rhythms throughout the song. What form is the poly-rhythm in the first allegro agitato part?

two over three

one over two

five over three

four over three

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In music, a Cantus Firmus is a given melody forming the basis of a polyphonic composition. Which statement is true?

The cantus firmus is always in the soprano.

The cantus firmus can be in any of the 4 voices soprano, alto, tenor or bass.

The cantus firmus is always in the bass.

A cantus firmus is a Latin expression that means "song of little importance".

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In western classical music, apart from avant-garde compositions, parallel voicing is common for

seconds and fourths

seconds and sevenths

thirds and sixths

fourths and sixths

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Who composed "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" (A Little Night Music)?

Beethoven

Haydn

Mozart

Bach

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A CODA is a passage that brings a piece to an end. Technically, it is an expanded cadence. It may be as simple as a few measures, or as complex as an entire section. Which statement is correct?

A coda has always triplet notes.

Codas were generally used to make a final statement.

A coda can also be at the beginning of a piece.

Codas can be skipped.

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What is this?

A Glissando

A Trill

A arpeggio

A Tremolo

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Who composed this Ave Maria?

Felix Mendelssohn

Franz Schubert

Johannes Brahms

Bach Gounod

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Please watch video before you answer the question. This Fugue in G minor from J.S. Bach was originally composed for Organ, here played on a grand piano. Which of the following statement of a fugue characteristic is correct?

A fugue starts usually with one voice, called the subject.

A fugue has only a melody and chords.

A fugue always start with a minor or major chord.

A fugue has a very easy musical structure.

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How many different diminished cords do we have, if inversions are not counted as different chords?

27 / 30

Which of the following is NOT an ornament?

Trill

Turn

Mordent

Sequence

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Bach used this instrument as a practicing keyboard. What is it called?

Harpsichord

Clavichord

Tetrachord

Table Keyboard

29 / 30

What is the legendary New York City music venue in Manhattan?

Carnegie Hall

Concord Music Hall

Time Square

Walt Disney Concert Hall

30 / 30

Rubato is an expressive shaping of music that is a part of phrasing. It is an expression tool and gives some rhythmic freedom that allows speeding up or slowing down. In which expression category does rubato belong?

Tempo Variation

Damper Pedal application

Dynamics

Articulation

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