Statistics for Music Theory A-Z

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Letter	Hint	Answer	% Correct
B	Clef usually found in the lower staff of a piano score	Bass	97%
V	String instrument with music written in the alto clef	viola	75%
X	Percussion instrument consisting of wooden bars to be struck by mallet	xylophone	69%
P	Dynamic marking indicating a very soft passage	pianissimo	64%
U	When two or more voices play the same note	unison	63%
Q	There are four notes of this kind in a bar in common time	quarter notes	62%
F	A type of contrapuntal piece often paired with a prelude	fugue	54%
I	Mode that is identical to a major scale	Ionian	52%
E	Term for two identical notes that are spelled differently	enharmonic equivalent	49%
R	Italian term indicating flexibility in tempo	rubato	44%
C	Italian expression marking meaning "songlike"	cantabile	38%
L	Alternative term for the seventh scale degree	Leading note	38%
O	Term for an interval of a fifth without any other chord notes	open fifth	36%
A	Italian term for a grace note that falls on the beat	appoggiatura	35%
H	General term for the "vertical" component of music	harmony	34%
Y	Singing that alternates between chest voice and falsetto	yodeling	32%
M	Musical texture that consists of a single unaccompanied line	monophonic	30%
D	Second section of a piece in sonata-allegro form	Development	27%
N	Major chord built off of the flat-2 scale degree	Neapolitan	25%
G	Type of 6th chord that contains the scale degrees ♭6-1-♭3-♯4	German	22%
T	Section often paired with a menuet or scherzo	trio	19%
J	This type of tuning is based entirely on pure intervals	just tuning	18%
Z	Genre of fast Cajun-American folk music	Zydeco	11%
S	Song form where the music remains the same each verse	strophic	10%
K	German expression marking meaning "powerful"	Kräftig	6%
W	Brass instrument invented for operas often performed at Bayreuth	Wagner tubas	6%