Pitch, Major Scales and Key Signatures, Rhythm, Meter, and Expressive Elements
How could compound meter be implied within simple meter composition?
Write sequences of quintuplets spanning multiple bars.
Place emphasis on beat subdivisions rather than main beats.
Extend every second beat with ties leading to next barline.
Notate all rhythms exclusively in sixteenth notes.
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 you were to create a hemiola between two parts with different meters, which pair would result in a true hemiola across one whole measure in both parts?
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A part in against another part in .
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A part in against another part in .
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
What does the bottom number of a 3/4 time signature represent?
The number of beats in each measure.
The number of measures in a phrase.
The total number of beats in a piece.
The note value that represents one beat.
How does inserting rests into a melodic line affect its rhythmic composition?
It creates space and can emphasize preceding or subsequent notes.
Rests are only used for ending phrases and have no other compositional use.
It disrupts the melodic contour completely and should be avoided.
Rests make it difficult for performers to maintain tempo and rhythm accuracy.

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Assuming you are writing for string quartet in the Classical style, which interval leap would be least characteristic when creating bass lines?
Perfect fifths
Major sixths
Augmented fourths
Octaves
Which rhythmic alteration retains melodic contour and harmonic structure but extends duration proportionally across all notes within a phrase?
Tempo modification
Augmentation
Inversion
Retrograde
In the measure containing a tuplet where three quarter note values are played in the time that two should occupy, how many total quarter notes will be fit in if the sequence is repeated for four measures in common time?
26 (tuplets are not replicated across multiple measures but rather used sporadically to create variety within duration)
12 (each triplet contains one extra note when three takes the place of two, resulting in four notes altogether per measure)
39 (the presence of tuplets does not change overall backgound pulsation required to calculate total number over time)