Music Theory Quiz – 2

Hey, dude! You read every time only some particular concepts, this time for a change, you get info in the form of a quiz. This quiz is about music theory. But before that, let me explain to you what music theory is all about.

The study of the practices and possibilities of music is Music Theory. The term “music theory” interrelates three uses:

• The Rudiments – to understand music notation

• Learning scholars’ views on music from antiquity to the present

• A sub-topic of musicology that “seeks to define processes and general principles in music”

Will update 5 music theory questions and answers for quizzes with detailed explanation. Let me begin the quiz!

Click here to Read Music Theory Quiz – 1.

Let us continue our music theory quiz 2. 

How will the third parallel create a tritone?

"Tritone" is a name for the interval of an augmented 4th, because it formed of 3 whole tones added together. Regarded as a difficult interval: hard to sing and hard to get in tune; thought to have a harsh sound.

The same was true of its inversion, the diminished fifth. If two voices separated by a major third both move in the same direction by a whole step, the lower and upper notes of the first and second intervals will form a tritone. That's the origin of the "rule" about parallel major thirds.

Fortunately, it doesn't come up that often: in every mode and in the major scale, there is only one place where this can happen naturally. In the major scale, it's between the 4th and 5th degrees:

How do you count crochet triplets?

Crochet means a quarter note. In the below image, you can understand a crotchet triplet as two quavers (eighth notes!) triplets with ties. It's a catchy syncopation.

If you sing the quaver triplets first without ties and then start adding the ties, you'll get the feeling of the crochet triplet. Each quaver triplet of course is taking the time of one normal crochet.

You could also set a metronome going at the quaver speed, thinking of them in groups of threes. Then sing a note for every two ticks.

Do you know that there is a note on the keyboard called 'C Flat'?

Yes, there it is. Any note can be flat, even C and F. The note "C flat" on the piano played on the same key used for B.

Similarly, there is such a thing as B sharp and E sharp. B sharp on the same key used for C.

A flat always lowers a pitch one half-step, regardless of where you start. At one time they made use of separate keys for these different note names and tune them. But on the modern keyboard, they are the same pitch.

What is natural in a song?

The key signature would be a group of sharps or flats laid out in advance to use for the duration unless you hear otherwise.

Anywhere from one to seven sharps or flats. If the song uses a major scale on A, for example, it will have a key signature of 3 sharps: F#, C#, and G#, because you need them in order to play a melody using A major scale.

Also gives the reader a clue that is what "key" you're in. But sometimes one of those pitches might alter. And if that happens on the first note, it will need a natural to let you know.

Songs sometimes use a note or two that is not in the current scale - if it's a note that would be sharp in the key signature but the writer wants it lowered, it will need a natural. If it's normally flatted and the writer wants it raised, it would need a natural.

Why do you use the whole rest for a measure in any meter?

To use the whole rest, "one measure of rest" regardless of the meter.

The whole rest must not be used to represent a partial measure, except perhaps in a meter where the whole note is the denominator of the meter signature, like 2/1 or 3/1.

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