Introduction to Classical Music Coursera Quiz Answers

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Week 01: Introduction to Classical Music Coursera Quiz Answers

Quiz 1: Popular Music and Classical Music Compared

Q1. Please select the following statements that best fit into the category of ‘classical music.’

  • Often features a strong sense of a regular beat
  • Usually texted (has lyrics)
  • A somewhat lesser emphasis on a strongly defined regular beat
  • Makes wider and more regular use of electronic instruments and sounds
  • Greater prominence given to purely instrumental (untexted) music
  • Employs mostly acoustic instruments
  • Compositions are often longer and cast in broader forms
  • Compositions are generally shorter and feature greater repetition
  • Performances much less often rely on notated music
  • Performances typically occur with and from notated music (or from memory of notated music)

Q2. Please select the following statements that best fit into the category of ‘popular music.’

  • Often features a strong sense of a regular beat
  • Usually texted (has lyrics)
  • A somewhat lesser emphasis on a strongly defined regular beat
  • Makes wider and more regular use of electronic instruments and sounds
  • Greater prominence given to purely instrumental (untexted) music
  • Employs mostly acoustic instruments
  • Compositions are often longer and cast in broader forms
  • Compositions are generally shorter and feature greater repetition
  • Performances much less often rely on notated music
  • Performances typically occur with and from notated music (or from memory of notated music);

Quiz 2: How Do We Hear Music? Sound Waves and the Ear

Q1. In order to raise the pitch of a note by an octave (by the same letter name, we must __ its frequency (in Hertz).

  • triple
  • halve
  • quadruple
  • double

Q2. By using the letters below, arrange in the proper sequence, first to last, the regions through which musical sound passes as it comes from the atmosphere and into our ear and then makes its way to the temporal lobe of the brain (1=first, 5=last area)

1. 2. 3. 4. 5._

A. Auditory nerve

B. Inner ear

C. Primary auditory cortex

D. Basilar membrane;

E. Outer ear

  • E, A, D, B, C
  • B, A, E, C, D
  • E, B, D, A, C
  • E, A, C, D, B

Q3. A tonotopic region is one of the ear or the brain containing cilia or neurons that

  • Regions of the ear and brain that respond only to particular frequencies (vibrations) of pitch.
  • Regions of the ear and brain that respond only to particular topics
  • Regions of the ear and brain that require topical lotions

Q4. Which part of the brain is primarily responsible for emotion (about how we feel about the music)?

  • Temporal lobe
  • Limbic System
  • Mortor cortex

Q5. True or false: Listening to music causes the same responses in regions of the brain as we experience when eating certain food, engaging in sex, and taking drugs of abuse.

  • True
  • False;

Quiz 3: Why We Like What We Like? It’s Nature

Q1. What is the lowest sound of an overtone series called?

  • Root
  • Fundamental
  • Bass
  • Principal

Q2. All frequencies sounding above (and with) that lowest sound are:

  • Principals
  • Overtones
  • Good vibrations
  • Silhouettes

Q3. To generate a pitch an octave higher on a violin, one must:

  • Double the length of the string
  • Duplicate the length of the string;
  • Cut the length of string exactly in half

Q4. Do the Chinese and Indonesian musical cultures have the same overtones as Western music?

  • Yes
  • No

Q5. The Fundamental and the first four (indeed first six) overtones produce __.

  • Consonance
  • Dissonance
  • Bad vibrations

Q6. Which of the following does Richard Strauss use to suggest the advent of a super hero and coming of a new age in his tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra? (select two) _ and .

A. A static melody suggesting consistency

B. A rising melody

C. A descending melody

D. A piano as the solo instrument

E. A trumpet as a solo instrument

  • C and D
  • D and E
  • B and E
  • A and E

Week 2: Introduction to Classical Music Coursera Quiz Answers

Quiz 1: Beat, Meter, and Rhythm

Q1. Which music usually has no beat at all?

  • Gregorian chant
  • Electric dance music
  • A march

Q2. Which music often has a suppressed beat?

  • Pop music
  • Classical music

Q3. Please place each one of the following concepts in the correct blank below:

is an organization of into consistent of evenly spaced, regularly recurring (usually 2, 3, or 4).

A. Beats;

B. Meter

C. Musical time

D. Groups

  • B, A, D, C
  • A, B, C, D
  • B, C, D, A

Q4. The machine musicians use to sound the beat so that the performer can stay with it is called a _.

  • Metroliner
  • Metropolitan
  • Metronome

Q5. Identify the two “axes” (or coordinates) of music found in a Western musical score:

  • Intensity and volume
  • Mood and duration (time)
  • Pitch and duration (time)
  • Pitch and Mood

Quiz 2: Hearing the Downbeat, Feeling the Emotion

Q1. True or False: Syncopation is the effect produced when a rhythmic emphasis is placed on a weak beat or on an “off-beat.”

  • True
  • False

Q2. Yes or No: If a rhythmic emphasis is placed on a downbeat, is that considered an instance of syncopation?

  • Yes
  • No

Q3. When listening to music, the beat is usually signaled to us by the _.

  • Bass
  • Melody

Q4. When listening to music, syncopation is usually found in the __.

  • Bass
  • Melody

Q5. Which of the following is NOT used to signal a downbeat?

  • New instruments
  • Accents
  • Longer durations
  • Chord changes
  • Differences in range;

Quiz 3: Tempo (and How We Feel About It)

Q1. Tempo refers to the speed of the music, gauged by the speed of the _.

  • Beat
  • Rhythms
  • Accelerando
  • Ritardando
  • All of these

Q2. Place the following tempo indications in order from fastest to slowest:

A. Moderato

B. Allegro

C. Lento

D. Prestissimo

  • D, A, B, C
  • D, B, A, C
  • A, B, C, D

Q3. True or False: Classical music, with its notated scores and long-standing traditions, demands that one perform the music strictly in tempo and on pitch at all times for maximum emotional effect.

  • True
  • False

Q4. True or False: The introduction of slight “imperfections” in classical music is NOT something we find emotionally satisfying.

  • True
  • False

Quiz 4: Melodic Notation and Scales

Q1. In music notation, the horizontal dimension corresponds to , while the vertical dimension corresponds to .

A. Duration

B. Pitch

  • A, B
  • B, A

Q2. How many pitches are used in the pentatonic scale, the scale so often heard in Chinese music?

  • Five (5)
  • Six (6)
  • Seven (7)
  • Eight (8)

Q3. Some Indian music, as exemplified by works created by the late Ravi Shankar, employ how many pitches?

  • Five (5)
  • Six (6)
  • Seven (7)
  • Eight (8)

Q4. How many pitches are used in the Western major and minor scales?

  • Five (5)
  • Six (6)
  • Seven (7)
  • Eight (8);

Q5. Which culture had the most significant effect on the development of the Western musical

scale?

  • Indian
  • Ancient Greek
  • Chinese
  • None of these
  • All of these

Q6. The Western musical scale developed with inconsistencies within it because the founders of early musical theory privileged _ over symmetry.

  • Rhetoric
  • Mathematics
  • Geometry
  • Astronomy

Q7. Eventually, by the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, scale patterns in the West were reduced to just two patterns, the _ and the _.

  • Mixolydian and Phrygian
  • Major and Enharmonic
  • Major and Minor
  • Phrygian and Minor

Quiz 5: The Chromatic Scale

Q1. How many pitches are in a chromatic scale?

  • Six (6)
  • Eight (8)
  • Ten (10)
  • Twelve (12)

Q2. How many pitches are in a minor scale?

  • Six (6)
  • Seven (7)
  • Eight (8)
  • Twelve (12)

Q3. True or False: Chromatic scales are usually employed in only a part or a section of a piece?

  • True
  • False

Q4. Which usually adds a sense of growing tension to a musical passage, as heard in the example by Mozart?

  • An ascending chromatic scale
  • A descending chromatic scale

Q5. Which usually releases tension from music from a musical passage, as heard in the example by Beethoven?

  • An ascending chromatic scale
  • A descending chromatic scale

Quiz 6: How We Feel About the Music: Mode and Mood

Q1. Match the mode with the mood it is often associated with in Western music: _ and ; and _

A Happy

B Minor

C Major

D Sad/Somber

  • A, C and B, D
  • A, D and B, C

Q2. Which pitch of the scale is altered by a half-step to essentially change a scale from the major mode to the minor mode (and vice versa)?

  • 1st
  • 2nd
  • 3rd
  • 4th
  • 5th

Q3. True or False: Major and minor scales both have seven-note patterns, but those patterns differ from each other.

  • True
  • False;

Quiz 7: Phrase Structure in Music: Beethoven’s Ode to Joy

Q1. Match the term with its appropriate description.

Each letter should be used only once.

A. Consequent B. Disjunct C. Antecedent D. Conjunct

WITH

E. Smooth motion F. Many leaps G. Return to a resting point/tonic H. Departure from starting/resting point

  1. A and _
  2. _ and E
  3. C and _
  4. _ and F
  • G B H D
  • G D H B
  • H B D G;

Quiz 8: Harmony: A Distinctly Western Phenomenon

Q1. Which musical element distinguishes Islamic music from other regions/cultures of the world?

  • Harmony
  • Rhythm
  • Melody

Q2. Which musical element distinguishes African music from other regions/cultures of the world?

  • Harmony
  • Rhythm
  • Melody

Q3. Which musical element distinguishes Western music from other regions/cultures of the world?

  • Rhythm
  • Melody
  • Harmony

Q4. According to Professor Wright, a “group of two or more pitches sounding at the same time” is a basic definition of a __?;

  • Harmony
  • Triad
  • Chord
  • All of the above
  • None of the above

Q5. Please match the term with the scale degree (and the associated triad) it represents:

Scale degree IV _

Scale degree V __

Scale degree I and VIII __

A. Subdominant B. Tonic C. Dominant

  • A B C
  • B C A
  • A C B

Quiz 9: Chord Progressions and Cadences

Q1. True or False: A cadence will come at the beginning of a musical phrase.

  • True
  • False

Q2. Given the following chord progressions, please determine which type (name) of cadence each chord sequence:

  1. Tonic chord (I) to dominant chord (V) __
  2. Dominant chord (V) to submediant chord (VI) __
  3. Dominant chord (V) to tonic chord (I) __
  4. Subdominant chord (IV) to tonic chord (I) __

A. Authentic B. Half C. Deceptive D. “Amen”

  • B A D C
  • C D B A
  • B C A D;

Quiz 10: Major and Minor Triads

Q1. From the following pitches, please select the three that correctly make up a triad.

E G D F C

  • G F C
  • E F D
  • C E G

Q2. A major or minor triad built upon the same pitch differs from the other by the difference of a _ in the middle pitch of the triad:

  • half-step
  • whole-step

Q3. True or False: A chord differs from an arpeggio in that its notes are played simultaneously rather than successively.

  • True
  • False

Q4. True or False: Arpeggios can be made out of minor triads as well as major triads.

  • False
  • True;

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