Producers & Composers Music Theory for Producers 3

Question 1

What is 'voice leading' in music composition?

Accepted Answer

The smooth movement of individual voices between chords

Answer

Assigning parts to vocalists

Answer

Writing lyrics for a melody

Answer

Transposing a melody to a new key

Question 2

What is an 'ostinato' in music?

Accepted Answer

A repeating rhythmic or melodic pattern

Answer

A type of scale

Answer

A dynamic marking

Answer

A type of chord inversion

Question 3

What interval separates adjacent notes on a piano keyboard (one white to the nearest black key, or between E and F)?

Accepted Answer

Half step

Answer

Whole step

Answer

Quarter tone

Answer

Major second

Question 4

What is 'modulation' in music?

Accepted Answer

Changing from one key to another within a piece

Answer

Adjusting the volume of a track

Answer

Adding vibrato to a note

Answer

Transposing a part down an octave

Question 5

What does 'polyphony' mean in music?

Accepted Answer

Multiple independent melodic lines sounding simultaneously

Answer

One melody with no accompaniment

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A single chord held for a long time

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Rhythm with no melody

Question 6

Which rhythmic value is equivalent to two quarter notes?

Accepted Answer

Half note

Answer

Eighth note

Answer

Sixteenth note

Answer

Dotted quarter note