Pitch, Major Scales and Key Signatures, Rhythm, Meter, and Expressive Elements
How might ritardando be effectively used at cadences across varied compositions?
To maintain consistent pace through cadences thereby strengthening metric stability across compositions.
To signal modulation to another key, assisting audible recognition of tonality shifts.
To increase expressiveness by slowing down at concluding phrases, enhancing resolution anticipation.
To accelerate final phrases, creating urgency prior to abrupt endings in diverse works.
Which note value alteration would most likely extend an antecedent-consequent phrase structure beyond its typical length?
Using eighth notes as passing tones between chord tones
Incorporating dotted rhythms within internal phrases
Shortening half notes to quarter notes in non-cadential measures
Inserting whole notes as cadential extensions
If a melody is played with an unexpected accent on the second beat of a 4/4 measure, what is this an example of?
Agogic accent
Anacrusis
Hemiola
Syncopation
Which rhythmic alteration retains melodic contour and harmonic structure but extends duration proportionally across all notes within a phrase?
Tempo modification
Augmentation
Inversion
Retrograde
Which non-diatonic secondary function typically introduces modal mixture when momentarily borrowing from the parallel major in a minor key progression?
iii/ii (mediant of supertonic).
V/V (secondary dominant of the dominant).
IIImaj7 (major mediant seventh).
viiofIV (leading-tone of subdominant).
Which of the following notes has the shortest duration?
Sixteenth note
Whole note
Quarter note
Half note
In mixed meters transitioning between ? and ?, what rhythmic figure could maintain continuous eight-note motion through both bars while emphasizing metric modulation?
Alternating patterns of four-eight-notes groups then triplets across bars.
A sequence of seven grouped eight-notes across both bars accented on first and fifth beats.
Continuous straight eight-notes without any accents or changes.
Six consecutive eight-notes within each bar placed uniformly throughout.

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Which rhythmic device is most commonly associated with the tension and release pattern found in a typical Baroque sarabande?
Using hemiola to shift between duple and triple feel.
Lengthening final notes of phrases for a ritardando effect.
Incorporating syncopation on weak beats.
Accenting the second beat.
Which note value is equivalent to half of a quarter note?
Half note
Sixteenth note
Whole note
Eighth note
What rhythmic value represents one beat in 4/4 time?
Quarter note
Half note
Eighth note
Whole note