88 Questions

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LEVEL 1

1. How many fingers are on your right hand?
2. How many pedals does your piano have?
3. What is the first sharp?
4. What major key has no sharps?
5. What is the first flat?
6. What are dynamics?
7. What does crescendo mean?
8. What does a metronome do?
9. What are the numbers for your fingers?
10.  What does forte mean?

LEVEL 2

11. How many keys does a standard piano have?
12. What is the name of the highest note on a piano?
13. What is the name of the lowest note on a piano?
14. What major key has 3 sharps?
15. What is root position?
16. What notes are in a C major scale?
17. What notes are in a G major chord?
18. What is a pedal marking?
19. What are rests?
20. What are the names of the spaces and lines in both clefs?

LEVEL 3

21. How many white keys are on a standard piano?
22. How many black keys are on a standard piano?
23. What are inversions?
24. What is a fermata?
25. What does a dot do to a note?
26. What is a double sharp?
27. What is a double flat?
28. What is the key signature for the key of A minor?
29. What are beats per minute?
30. What is transposing?

LEVEL 4

31. How many inversions does a 7th chord have?
32. How many major scales are there?
33. When should you page turn?
34. What notes are in a D7 chord?
35. Without looking what is the lowest black key on the piano called?
36. What notes are in the A harmonic minor scale?
37. What is a relative minor?
38. What is a parallel minor/
39. What is an augmented chord?
40. What is a diminished chord?

LEVEL 5

41. How many inversions does a 9th chord have?
42. What is the order of sharps?
43. What is a polyrhythm?
44. What are the kinds of minor scales?
45. What are arpeggios?
46.  What are cadences?
47. What are suspended chords?
48. Continue this sequence Tonic, Supertonic...
49. What does WW1/2WWW1/2 mean?
50. What is counterpoint?

LEVEL 6

51. How many inversions does an 11th chord have?
52. What is the order of flats?
53. What two common chords contain these notes E,C,G,A?
54. What is a diminished 7th chord?
55. Put these in order largo, presto,andante, allegro, grave, vivace, moderato, lento, adagio.
56. What does una corda mean?
57. What is eye training?
58. What does a capriccio mean?
59. What is a basso ostinato?
60. What are passing tones?

LEVEL 7

61. How many notes does a 13th chord have?
62. How are the order of sharps and flats related?
63. What is a half diminished chord?
64. What does ad libitum mean?
65. What does dal segno mean?
66. Name a famous composer of Mazurkas.
67. What is a fugue?
68. Who composed the first nocturnes?
69. What are the two common time signatures for a sicilienne?
70. What do you call a piece having many, bold, rapid passages, in a free, contrapuntal style?

LEVEL 8

71. What is a tetrachord?
72. Explain how you would analyze a 7 versus 8 polyrhythm.
73. What is the key signature of D# minor?
74. What is an allemande?
75. What is an ecossaise?
76. Name the 7 forms in common use.
77. What is incidental music?
78. What does langsam mean?
79. Who wrote pavane pour une infante defunte?
80. What is the time signature of a polonaise?

LEVEL 8+

81. What is the name of the triad built on the 7th degree of the A# Harmonic minor scale?
82. What key on a piano has only two names?
83. How many strings are in a piano?
84. What notes would be in a B# Aug chord?
85. What are borrowed chords?
86. What is a neapolitan chord?
87. What is a bagatelle?
88. What is the time signature for a bouree?

                                                                                                                                    

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1. 5
2. 3
3. f#
4. C major
5. Bb
6. the volume of sound of a note
7. gradually getting louder
8. it produces relugar beats or pulses whcih is adjustable by beats per minute. pianists use this as a device in maintainning a consistent tempo with the beats. Can also be used by composers for specifying the tempo in which the piece must be played.
9. left hand: 54321 right hand: 12345
10: to play loud.