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.
The email entry is also required. You will receive a certificate after you passed the quiz with 100%.

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

Bach

Mozart

Beethoven

Haydn

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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?

550Hz

400Hz

360Hz

440Hz

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What is the SUPERTONIC of the C-major scale?

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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...

Picardy third

Amiens third

Beauvais third

Clermont third

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

Concord Music Hall

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Carnegie Hall

Time Square

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

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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)

V -> I ( G -> C)

IV -> I (F -> C)

II -> I (Dm -> C)

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

thirds and sixths

seconds and sevenths

seconds and fourths

fourths and sixths

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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 is always in the bass.

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

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

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Which of the following is NOT an ornament?

Turn

Mordent

Trill

Sequence

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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?

four over three

five over three

two over three

one over two

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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?

Ravel's Bolero could be categorized as a baroque composition

L. van Beethoven also composed a Bolero

a Bolero is a Scottish folk song

a Bolero is a Spanish dance in triple time

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

Grand Piano

Saxophone

Barrel Organ

Chlavichord

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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?

Damper Pedal application

Dynamics

Articulation

Tempo Variation

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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 can be skipped.

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

Codas were generally used to make a final statement.

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

is dissonant

is stable

is very rarely used

is consonant

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This note is actually a...

G-sharp

F-sharp

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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 C in the bass.

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

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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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What chord progression is this?

I - ii - iii - V

I - iii - ii - V

I - vi - IV - V

I - ii - V - IV

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Who composed this Ave Maria?

Johannes Brahms

Franz Schubert

Felix Mendelssohn

Bach Gounod

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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?

arpeggiated chords

Alberti bass

blocked chords

Vivaldi bass

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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

attribute

incidental

accidental

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What note is the enharmonic equivalent of B-flat?

A-sharp

C-sharp

D-aharp

G-Sharp

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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

Pedal Noise

Unwanted Echo

Sympathetic Vibration or String Resonance

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What is this?

A Trill

A Tremolo

A arpeggio

A Glissando

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How does a Harpsichord produce a sound?

The strings are hammered

The strings are muted

The strings are touched with the hands

The strings are plucked

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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 has a very easy musical structure.

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

A fugue always start with a minor or major chord.

A fugue has only a melody and chords.

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

Eubie Blake

Scott Joplin

Fats Waller

James Scott

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

Table Keyboard

Harpsichord

Tetrachord

Clavichord

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