| Letter | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | Clef usually found in the lower staff of a piano score | Bass | 97%
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| V | String instrument with music written in the alto clef | viola | 74%
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| X | Percussion instrument consisting of wooden bars to be struck by mallet | xylophone | 69%
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| P | Dynamic marking indicating a very soft passage | pianissimo | 66%
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| Q | There are four notes of this kind in a bar in common time | quarter notes | 64%
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| U | When two or more voices play the same note | unison | 62%
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| I | Mode that is identical to a major scale | Ionian | 52%
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| F | A type of contrapuntal piece often paired with a prelude | fugue | 50%
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| E | Term for two identical notes that are spelled differently | enharmonic equivalent | 49%
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| R | Italian term indicating flexibility in tempo | rubato | 41%
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| L | Alternative term for the seventh scale degree | Leading note | 37%
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| C | Italian expression marking meaning "songlike" | cantabile | 36%
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| A | Italian term for a grace note that falls on the beat | appoggiatura | 35%
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| H | General term for the "vertical" component of music | harmony | 34%
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| O | Term for an interval of a fifth without any other chord notes | open fifth | 33%
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| Y | Singing that alternates between chest voice and falsetto | yodeling | 31%
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| M | Musical texture that consists of a single unaccompanied line | monophonic | 29%
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| D | Second section of a piece in sonata-allegro form | Development | 26%
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| N | Major chord built off of the flat-2 scale degree | Neapolitan | 24%
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| G | Type of 6th chord that contains the scale degrees ♭6-1-♭3-♯4 | German | 21%
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| J | This type of tuning is based entirely on pure intervals | just tuning | 19%
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| T | Section often paired with a menuet or scherzo | trio | 18%
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| Z | Genre of fast Cajun-American folk music | Zydeco | 10%
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| S | Song form where the music remains the same each verse | strophic | 8%
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| W | Brass instrument invented for operas often performed at Bayreuth | Wagner tubas | 7%
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| K | German expression marking meaning "powerful" | Kräftig | 6%
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