Music theory quiz (OT)

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Post by motet » Wed Feb 22, 2017 7:57 pm

I had fun taking this. There are some notation-related things.

http://www.classicfm.com/discover-music ... ic-theory/
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Post by zuill » Wed Feb 22, 2017 9:05 pm

I need to go back to school. I only got 15 out of 20.

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Post by motet » Wed Feb 22, 2017 9:07 pm

That was my score as well.
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Post by miker » Wed Feb 22, 2017 11:25 pm

<hiding face in shame, slinking away>
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Post by ttw » Thu Feb 23, 2017 2:47 am

Fourteen correct and six wrong. One wrong was a miscounting and one correct was guesswork so karma is restored.
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Post by Gareth Green » Thu Feb 23, 2017 11:58 am

15 out of 20; I would have got 16, but I was stupid, and missed the f natural earlier in the bar in the first question ... :oops:
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Post by Michel R E » Thu Feb 23, 2017 12:47 pm

I got 15/20, but I've never done Schenkerian analysis, nor do I speak (or have played much music notated with) German.
One error was stupid... I read "secondary dominant" simply as "dominant" (that's what I get for doing the quizz just as I wake up.

And while I got it right, I HATE reading in those stupid movable C clefs.
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Post by sandalwood » Thu Feb 23, 2017 2:35 pm

76 correct and counting :)

Why was the fig'd bass question so easy? I nearly killed myself trying to find a trick.
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Post by motet » Thu Feb 23, 2017 5:16 pm

Michel R E wrote:I read "secondary dominant" simply as "dominant"
That's the one answer (the Tristan chord) I have a quibble with.
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Post by zuill » Thu Feb 23, 2017 5:29 pm

The "correct" answer was "All of the Above". That was explained by the fact the scholars have suggested all 3, but don't agree. However, "All of the Above" was third on the list when I took the test. Now it is at the top. "All of the Above" means the answers above. How can that work if "All of the Above" is at the top of the list? It should be at the bottom.

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Post by motet » Thu Feb 23, 2017 5:44 pm

I think the thing randomizes the choices each time, which I agree doesn't work with "all of the above"! Seems pointless.

The Tristan chord is a "secondary dominant (V of V)" only in, I suppose, that it can lead to the dominant. But it can lead many other places, as Wagner shows. It certainly doesn't sound like a dominant or dominant seventh chord to me!

Can you tell this is one of the ones I missed? :-) Also never heard of the jazz scale or those sixth chords, and never learned the church modes.
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Post by sandalwood » Thu Feb 23, 2017 5:50 pm

Ronald J Brown wrote:
76 out of 20? Must be a record.
I see you're not totally convinced. OK, it was a bit lower; much lower, actually :)
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Post by zuill » Thu Feb 23, 2017 6:01 pm

I was intrigued by the Australian 6th chord definition. I think that was added after my 4th semester harmony class (many moons ago).

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Post by Michel R E » Thu Feb 23, 2017 6:10 pm

motet wrote:
Michel R E wrote:I read "secondary dominant" simply as "dominant"
That's the one answer (the Tristan chord) I have a quibble with.
the secondary dominant question was just to identify which of the chords was a secondary dominant in the key of the Mahler excerpt, it wasn't the Tristan chord question.
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Post by zuill » Thu Feb 23, 2017 6:16 pm

The Mahler asked about a second inversion subdominant chord. Is that the one you are talking about?

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Post by motet » Thu Feb 23, 2017 6:20 pm

The Mahler was a fun puzzle! (second-inversion subdominant = IV chord with the fifth in the bass).
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Post by Michel R E » Thu Feb 23, 2017 7:15 pm

I don't remember anymore. all I remember is that it asked for a "secondary" dominant, and I just didn't see the word "secondary".
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Post by motet » Thu Feb 23, 2017 7:21 pm

The only mention of secondary dominant was in the Tristan chord question.
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Post by motet » Thu Feb 23, 2017 7:30 pm

So, why is the Australian sixth so called? Upside down? Invented by Percy Grainger?
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Post by Michel R E » Thu Feb 23, 2017 8:37 pm

motet wrote:So, why is the Australian sixth so called? Upside down? Invented by Percy Grainger?
it has a bouncy quality to it, and a hole in the middle to put its Joey.
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Post by HaraldS » Fri Feb 24, 2017 9:29 am

I got 16 of 20 right, but as a native german, language wasn't an issue...
The twelve-tone RI2 thing got me, I've never dealt much with that composition technique, so I guessed wrong. The australian sixth was also a down-under mystery to me :wink: . I remember another diminshed jazz scale than the one presented and I wasn't aware that all Tristan chord analyses would be equally right.
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Post by SMS » Fri Feb 24, 2017 6:29 pm

Gareth Green wrote:15 out of 20; I would have got 16, but I was stupid, and missed the f natural earlier in the bar in the first question ... :oops:

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Post by SMS » Fri Feb 24, 2017 6:32 pm

Is the diminished scale really only in "Jazz theory"?
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Post by zuill » Fri Feb 24, 2017 7:00 pm

SMS wrote:Is the diminished scale really only in "Jazz theory"?
In the quiz, it referred to it as Octatonic in classical theory.

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Post by SMS » Fri Feb 24, 2017 10:23 pm

zuill wrote:
SMS wrote:Is the diminished scale really only in "Jazz theory"?
In the quiz, it referred to it as Octatonic in classical theory.

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That's what I'm asking. I seem to remember it being called diminished in theory class.
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