KS3 music year 7 revision - including round, motif and pitch

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Music Quiz - Year 7 Revision 01 (Questions)

If you have finished Year 7 then you'll have learned a lot. But that means there is a lot you may have forgotten too! The following music quiz serves as a useful revision aid for Year 7 students, covering a range of topics from multiple units of the KS3 Year 7 syllabus. Hopefully, it will be enough to jog your memory!

Pitch, round and motif are in this Year 7 revision music quiz. They're terms you'll have come across already so you shouldn't find this quiz too difficult. There's plenty of stuff in here to test you and find out just how many of the things you learned in Year 7 you can remember.

Whether you are in Year 7 and want to refresh your memory, Year 8 and you want to go back over what you learned last year, or Year 9 and you want to revise everything you have studied in music lessons, this quiz is for you! Why not give it a bash and see just how much you have learned so far!

Pitch is .......

[ ]	a way of describing how high or low a note sounds
[ ]	indicative of speed
[ ]	representative of dynamic volume
[ ]	None of the above

What music is most likely to feature verse and chorus?

[ ]	Concerto
[ ]	Film scores
[ ]	Hymns
[ ]	Symphony

What does MIDI stand for?

[ ]	Multi Instrument Digital Interface
[ ]	Multi Instrument Dynamic Indication
[ ]	Multitrack Inaugaral Dynamic Input
[ ]	Musical Instrument Digital Interface

What is a note cluster?

[ ]	A type of cereal musicians have for breakfast!
[ ]	A played group of notes which are very close together
[ ]	A really fast passage of music
[ ]	All of the above

What best describes a 'round'?

[ ]	A circular seating layout for performers of modern music
[ ]	An alternative description for a movement in a concerto
[ ]	The way acoustics travel around the building/hall
[ ]	Where many voices sing a repeated tune at different times

Musical cycles often feature repeated .......

[ ]	rhythms
[ ]	melodies
[ ]	harmonies
[ ]	All of the above

What is a tempo?

[ ]	The key signature
[ ]	Pace or general speed of a composition
[ ]	The time signature
[ ]	None of the above

What motif structure best defines binary form?

[ ]	AB (often repeated - AABB)
[ ]	ABA
[ ]	ABCDA
[ ]	One section repeated several times

'Tala' corresponds to what in western music?

[ ]	Dynamics
[ ]	Composition and Composer's titles on sheet music
[ ]	Metre
[ ]	Composer's dedication

10.

What is the purpose of musical cliché in film?

[ ]	To generate dramatic effect
[ ]	To heighten the sense of excitement
[ ]	To bring out emotion or warn the audience of danger
[ ]	All of the above

You can find more about this topic by visiting BBC Bitesize - Music

Music Quiz - Year 7 Revision 01 (Answers)

Pitch is .......

[x]	a way of describing how high or low a note sounds
[ ]	indicative of speed
[ ]	representative of dynamic volume
[ ]	None of the above

Notes on a piece of music indicate the pitch to play as well as how long to play the note for

What music is most likely to feature verse and chorus?

[ ]	Concerto
[ ]	Film scores
[x]	Hymns
[ ]	Symphony

Also common in musicals and vocal rock tracks

What does MIDI stand for?

[ ]	Multi Instrument Digital Interface
[ ]	Multi Instrument Dynamic Indication
[ ]	Multitrack Inaugaral Dynamic Input
[x]	Musical Instrument Digital Interface

Just one MIDI link can carry 16 channels of information

What is a note cluster?

[ ]	A type of cereal musicians have for breakfast!
[x]	A played group of notes which are very close together
[ ]	A really fast passage of music
[ ]	All of the above

You can hear this in a lot of chordal piano/organ music

What best describes a 'round'?

[ ]	A circular seating layout for performers of modern music
[ ]	An alternative description for a movement in a concerto
[ ]	The way acoustics travel around the building/hall
[x]	Where many voices sing a repeated tune at different times

Many nursery rhyme songs are arranged as a round

Musical cycles often feature repeated .......

[ ]	rhythms
[ ]	melodies
[ ]	harmonies
[x]	All of the above

They can repeat one, or all, of the above

What is a tempo?

[ ]	The key signature
[x]	Pace or general speed of a composition
[ ]	The time signature
[ ]	None of the above

Examples: andante, allegro, largo etc.

What motif structure best defines binary form?

[x]	AB (often repeated - AABB)
[ ]	ABA
[ ]	ABCDA
[ ]	One section repeated several times

Binary form was most popular during the Baroque period (c1600-1750)

'Tala' corresponds to what in western music?

[ ]	Dynamics
[ ]	Composition and Composer's titles on sheet music
[x]	Metre
[ ]	Composer's dedication

Tala illustrates rhythmic patterns in Indian music

10.

What is the purpose of musical cliché in film?

[ ]	To generate dramatic effect
[ ]	To heighten the sense of excitement
[ ]	To bring out emotion or warn the audience of danger
[x]	All of the above

The same can be said for game music, tv scores etc.