Minor Scales and Key Signatures, Melody, Timbre, and Texture
Which compositional technique involves stretching out or compressing melodic material without changing its general shape or intervals?
Transposition
Retrograde
Inversion
Augmentation/Diminution
In a minor key piece, if the leading tone appears in an inner voice on the penultimate chord of a phrase, what voice leading consideration must be applied to maintain proper resolution?
The leading tone can resolve down by step to create a seventh chord.
The leading tone should leap up an octave to create emphasis.
The leading tone may stay the same or leap downwards.
The leading tone should resolve up by step to the tonic.
In melodic composition, what do we call a repeating rhythmic pattern?
Cadence.
Syncopation.
Ostinato.
Arpeggio.
Which harmonic progression would be most likely to precede a perfect authentic cadence in a piece composed in the Classical period?
What non-diatonic chord is commonly used in a minor key to strengthen the resolution to tonic?
Raised leading-tone seventh chord ()
Augmented sixth chord (It/Fr/Ger)
Neapolitan sixth chord ()
Secondary dominant of submediant ()
Which rhythmic device is most likely to create a sense of urgency in a Baroque fugue?
Use of augmentation
Use of hemiola
Use of diminution
Use of syncopation
What type of musical texture involves one main melody accompanied by chords?
Heterophonic
Polyphonic
Homophonic
Monophonic

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In a Classical period sonata, what might signal an atypical melodic development within an analysis?
Modulation to the dominant key in first movement's recapitulation.
Recapitulation that restates the primary theme in tonic key.
Use of sequence in developing motifs from the exposition.
Introduction of non-diatonic chromaticism in the secondary theme.
When analyzing a melody that modulates from G major to D major, which pivot chord would effectively facilitate this modulation?
C# diminished seventh chord
A major seventh chord
E minor seventh chord
B minor sixth chord
If analyzing an excerpt for textural density and you notice that instruments gradually enter playing distinct lines, this technique is known as what?
Counterpoint
Layered ostinato
Contrapuntal crescendo
Imitative polyphony