English For Music Students

(Marvins-Underground-K-12) #1

possible to create note values in between the normal notes without
inventing a new type of notation.


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IV. Comprehension Exercises


a. Write T (true) or F (false).


____ 1. The rhythm of music is concerned with how pitches are placed in
time.


____ 2. Beat is the smallest unit of measure of musical time.


____ 3. The symbols for silence are called rests.


____ 4. The most common metric grouping is four beats in a measure.


____ 5. A whole note looks like a filled-in oval.


____ 6. The whole rest sits on the fourth line of the staff.


____ 7. The stem is always attached to the right side of the note head.


____ 8. A half rest is a silence of two beats long.


____ 9. Quarter notes are usually connected together by means of a beam.


____ 10. The flag is always attached to the right side of the note stem.


____ 11. Sixteenth notes have two flags attached to them.


____ 12. A dot increases the length of a note or rest by half its normal
duration.

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