Minor Scales and Key Signatures, Melody, Timbre, and Texture
In creating an advanced-level composition featuring Trumpet in Bb and Alto Saxophone in Eb playing together, what intervallic relationship should their written parts have for them to produce identical concert pitches?
Both parts should be notated identically with no transposition necessary between them since they are both transposing instruments.
The trumpet part should be notated three whole steps (a minor third) below that of alto saxophone.
The alto saxophone part should be notated one whole step above that of trumpet.
The trumpet part should be notated six whole steps (a tritone) above that of alto saxophone.
If an orchestral score displays a passage written in C major for an A clarinet to perform with correct concert pitch tuning, what key should the clarinetist read while playing?
F# major
D major
A major
E major
Which instrument sounds an octave lower than the written pitch?
Trumpet
Flute
Clarinet
Double bass
When composing an original piece for French horn in F to be performed alongside piano, by how many steps and in what direction should you transpose the horn's melody if you want both instruments to sound out at unison pitches?
Transpose the French horn's melody up by a perfect fifth from the piano's melody.
Keep both melodies exactly as notated without any transposition between them.
Transpose the French horn's melody down by a major second from the piano’s melody.
Transpose the French horn's melody down by a perfect fourth from the piano's melody.
If an F horn player wants to play a written C to match the concert pitch F, what fingering should they use?
Second valve only
First and second valves together
First valve only
Open (no valves)
In which way does the harmonic minor differ from the natural minor?
Includes altered intervals between each note
Raises the seventh degree
Raises both sixth and seventh degrees only when ascending
Lowers the third degree
If you were to write a melody for a clarinet in A that is intended to sound at concert pitch with an orchestral string section, which transposition would result in the correct sounding pitch when played?
Write the clarinet part a major second lower than the concert pitch.
Write the clarinet part a minor third higher than the concert pitch.
Write the clarinet part at concert pitch with no transposition required.
Write the clarinet part a perfect fourth higher than the concert pitch.

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What would be the resulting key of an F horn part transposed into concert pitch if the original is notated in G minor?
B-flat minor
E minor
C minor
A minor
If a composer writes a clarinet part in B-flat, how will it sound when played on an A clarinet, assuming the player reads the music as written without transposing?
The music will sound a whole step lower.
The music will sound a minor third higher.
The music will sound at the written pitch.
The music will sound a half step higher.
What do we call two consecutive nonharmonic tones where the first moves away from a harmonic pitch by step and then leaps to another nonharmonic pitch before resolving by step?
Cambiata (or Incomplete Neighbor)
Appoggiatura
Changing Tone (Double Neighbor)
Escape Tone (or Echappée)