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Music Trivia Answers Archive

Review earlier daily rounds, reveal the correct answer, and use the short explanation to learn the fact behind each question. Page 7 of 12 covers seven completed UTC days.

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Daily round

  1. Does allegro prescribe one universal metronome number?

    Answer: No; style and context shape its actual speed

    Allegro signals a generally quick, lively tempo, but period, style, and context determine its practical speed.

  2. Which hardwood is commonly used for a professional oboe’s body?

    Answer: grenadilla

    Professional oboes are commonly made from dense grenadilla, also called African blackwood.

  3. Which direction tells a musician to become gradually louder?

    Answer: Crescendo

    Crescendo is the instruction for a gradual increase in volume.

  4. What does the sustain pedal do?

    Answer: lets notes continue sounding

    Its sustain pedal lets notes continue sounding.

  5. Which staff line sits between the bass clef’s two dots?

    Answer: the fourth staff line

    The bass clef dots surround the fourth staff line.

Daily round

  1. How does a cello’s usual register compare with a viola’s?

    Answer: below a viola

    Its pitch range lies below the viola.

  2. Which clef normally notates a modern bass choral part?

    Answer: bass clef

    Modern bass choral parts are normally written in bass clef.

  3. What is the traditional literal sense of the Italian word adagio?

    Answer: at ease

    The Italian expression adagio traditionally conveys the sense of being at ease.

  4. Which common clarinet is a transposing instrument?

    Answer: the B-flat clarinet

    The common B-flat model transposes.

  5. What vocal technique can supply percussion?

    Answer: beatboxing

    Beatboxing may provide vocal percussion.

Daily round

  1. What kind of beaters do timpani players use?

    Answer: specialized mallets

    Players use specialized mallets.

  2. Which main flute section contains the embouchure hole?

    Answer: the headjoint

    The embouchure hole is cut into the flute’s headjoint.

  3. Which interval joins pitches whose frequencies have a two-to-one relationship?

    Answer: Octave

    Octave is the interval between one pitch and another at double its frequency.

  4. Which orchestral bowed instrument is smaller than a viola?

    Answer: Violin

    Violin is the smallest standard member of the orchestral bowed-string family.

  5. How does notation show different durations?

    Answer: different note values

    Notation shows duration with different note values.

Daily round

  1. What handheld tool may make those gestures easier to see?

    Answer: a baton

    A baton may make hand movements easier to see.

  2. What alternate name does the treble clef take from its reference note?

    Answer: G clef

    The treble clef is also called the G clef because its curl identifies the staff’s G line.

  3. What do a conductor’s gestures communicate?

    Answer: beat and expression

    A conductor’s gestures communicate beat and expression.

  4. Which metal traditionally forms an orchestral timpano’s bowl?

    Answer: copper

    Orchestral timpani traditionally use bowl-shaped copper kettles.

  5. How many valves does a common modern trumpet have?

    Answer: three valves

    A common modern trumpet has three valves.

Daily round

  1. What is standard guitar tuning from lowest to highest?

    Answer: E, A, D, G, B, E

    Standard tuning begins E, A, D, G, B, E.

  2. From which language does adagio come?

    Answer: the Italian language

    The tempo word adagio comes from Italian.

  3. How are its bars arranged?

    Answer: like a keyboard

    Xylophone bars are arranged like a keyboard.

  4. By what interval does one fret normally change a guitar string’s pitch?

    Answer: one semitone

    Adjacent frets on a standard guitar normally divide the octave into semitone steps.

  5. What happens to a metronome’s click spacing when its BPM setting increases?

    Answer: the clicks move closer together

    A higher beats-per-minute setting places the metronome’s clicks closer together in time.

Daily round

  1. Where does the clarinet reed vibrate?

    Answer: against its mouthpiece

    A clarinet reed vibrates against its mouthpiece.

  2. Which tempo marking generally asks for a slow pace?

    Answer: Adagio

    Adagio is the marking generally calling for a slow pace.

  3. Which direction tells a musician to become gradually softer?

    Answer: Diminuendo

    Diminuendo is the instruction for a gradual decrease in volume.

  4. Does an orchestral flute use a reed?

    Answer: No

    An orchestral flute makes sound when air crosses its embouchure hole, without a reed.

  5. How does adagio’s typical tempo compare with allegro?

    Answer: slower

    It is slower than allegro in ordinary usage.

Daily round

  1. Which related word also means gradually softer?

    Answer: decrescendo

    Decrescendo is a closely related term.

  2. How does allegro’s typical tempo compare with adagio?

    Answer: faster

    It is faster than adagio in ordinary usage.

  3. What two broad methods can perform a melody?

    Answer: singing or playing

    It may be sung or played.

  4. What is an organized line of pitches heard as a tune?

    Answer: Melody

    Melody is the organized succession of pitches heard as a tune.

  5. What interval separates adjacent piano keys?

    Answer: a semitone

    Adjacent piano keys are a semitone apart.