AY Honors/Music/Answer Key
1. Play or sing a scale and know its composition.
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Music/Scales
2. Write a scale in both treble and bass clef.
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Music/Clefs
3. Know a half-tone, a whole tone, a third, a fifth, and an octave.
A half tone is the same as a half step (1/12 of an octave). It is basically the distance of two notes immediately next to each other, such as C to C# and B to C. A whole tone is the same as a whole step. It is the distance of two notes separated by another, such as C to D (C# is in between) and B to C# (C is in between). A third is an interval of three degrees (C and E). A fifth is an interval of five degrees (C and G). An octave is an interval of eight degrees--the same note eight notes higher or lower (Middle C and C).
4. Distinguish a march from a waltz and give the time of each.
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Music/March waltz
5. What is a quarter note? A half note? A whole note? Draw the symbols of each.
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Music/Note duration
6. Name five great composers and one composition of each, including an oratorio, a piano composition, and a song.
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Music/Bach Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Music/Handel Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Music/Beethoven Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Music/Chopin Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Music/Schubert Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Music/Mozart Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Music/Hayden Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Music/Tchaikovsky Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Music/Other composers
7. Play with or without music or sing from memory 15 hymns (one verse or stanza each) and/or other sacred songs or choruses and list the composer of each.
8. Play or sing from memory one piece of good music other than those used in #7.
9. Do one of the following:
For instrumentalists, be able to sight-read and play a moderately difficult piece of music. Explain all signs and terms in it.
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Music/Sight read
For singers, show with baton or arm how to lead a group in singing compositions written in 3/4 and 4/4 time.
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Music/Baton
10. Define orchestra and name at least five instruments in an orchestra.
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Music/Orchestra
11. Do a biographical sketch on a famous hymn writer and orally present it to a group.
Biographies of some hymn writers can be found at the following links.
