Minor Scales and Key Signatures, Melody, Timbre, and Texture
What compositional technique involves stretching or compressing rhythmic patterns within phrases while retaining their original contour and not altering tempo or metric structure?
Isochronism
Cross-Rhythm
Augmentation/Diminution
Poly Meter
What term describes the displacement of the expected accent in music so that strong beats become weak and vice versa?
Isorhythm
Polyrhythm
Syncopation
Agogic accent
What term describes the rhythmic device where a short pattern is repeated at different pitch levels throughout a passage?
Sequence
Augmentation
Imitation
Inversion
What term describes a non-harmonic tone that is approached by leap and then resolves by step to a chord tone?
Appoggiatura
Anticipation
Escape Tone
Neighbor Tone
What rhythmic technique involves dividing a measure into differing numbers of equal-length notes than typically dictated by the time signature?
Polymeter
Cross-rhythm
Isorhythm
Diminution
Which rhythmic device involves shifting accents onto beats or parts of beats where they wouldn't normally occur?
Isorhythm
Syncopation
Cross-rhythm
Polyrhythm
How would you categorize a syncopated rhythm where emphasis is placed on weak beats or offbeats?
Regular meter
Backbeat
Dotted rhythm
Syncopation

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In a complex polyrhythmic passage, which device creates the illusion of two distinct tempos occurring simultaneously by juxtaposing dotted quarter notes in one voice against a quadruple subdivision of beats in another?
Hemiola
Augmentation
Diminution
Syncopation
What rhythmic device involves speeding up certain notes within a passage?
Tenuto
Ritardando
Accelerando
Fermata
Which non-harmonic tone occurs when a chord tone is held over into the next chord as a dissonance before resolving down or up to a consonant pitch?
Passing Tone
Suspension
Pedal Point
Retardation