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Yr 11 Vocab Test

Prepare for your GCSE listening exam with this comprehensive vocabulary test. You will answer 30 questions focused on essential music terminology, including key concepts such as unaccompanied choir, polyphonic music, and various instruments. Each question presents a key term or definition, and you'll have just 10 seconds to submit your answer. Once you've completed a question, you'll receive immediate feedback before moving on to the next one. Good luck honing your music vocabulary skills!

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Yr 11 Vocab Test

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  1. Yr 11 Vocab Test You are about to answer 30 questions about the vocabulary you need to know for the GCSE listening exam. You will see a key word or a definition and you will have to write your answer in 10 seconds. Then you will get the answer and the next slide will appear. Good luck!

  2. Unaccompanied choir A Capella

  3. Music written with several different parts for different instruments. • Polyphonic

  4. A group of singers usually comprising sopranos, altos, tenors and basses • Choir

  5. Extra force given to a marked note. Indicated with a > above the note • Accent

  6. An increase, or accelleration of the tempo, or pace of a piece • Accelerando

  7. Briefly define Opera • Musical Drama with singers on stage and instrumental accompaniment

  8. Name 4 percussion instruments • Side drum, Bass drum, xylophone, glockenspiel, wood block etc

  9. When a stringed instrument is played not with a bow, but plucked with the fingers • Pizzicato

  10. To play with a flexible tempo • Rubato

  11. A group of three instruments including: A piano, a violin and a cello • Trio

  12. Very fast, faster than Allegro • Presto

  13. The highest female voice • Soprano

  14. Music written in only one voice, or with only one melody line throughout the range of instruments • Monophonic

  15. When a note is played a semitone down from its natural state • Flat

  16. Name 3 brass instruments • Trumpet, trombone, tuba, cornet, horn, etc

  17. A group of four string instruments including: two violins, one viola and a cello • String Quartet

  18. Sharp • When a note is played a semitone up from its natural note

  19. A combination of notes including one or more dissonant intervals". This means a combination of notes that don't sound 'right' together • Dischord/Atonal/Dissonant

  20. Symbols at the beginning of a stave showing which notes are to be played flat or sharp throughout a piece of music • Key Signature

  21. The lines upon which music notation is written • Stave

  22. Music without a sense of key • Atonal

  23. Texture. Melody + Chordal accompaniment • Homophonic

  24. Where the opening pattern of a musical phrase played by one voice or instrument is copied in another, not necessarily at the same pitch • Imitation

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