 - 1. How many notes compose a diminished seventh chord?
A) Five notes
B) Three notes
C) Six notes
D) Four notes
- 2. What intervals are stacked above the root in a diminished seventh chord?
A) A major third, a perfect fifth, and a major seventh
B) A minor third, a perfect fifth, and a minor seventh
C) A minor third, a diminished fifth, and a diminished seventh
D) A minor third, a diminished fifth, and a major seventh
- 3. What are the pitches of the diminished seventh chord built on B?
A) B-D-F#-A♭
B) B-D#-F#-A
C) B-D-F-A♭
D) B-D-F-A
- 4. Which chord type does the diminished seventh chord consist of, plus a diminished seventh?
A) Augmented triad
B) Major triad
C) Diminished triad
D) Minor triad
- 5. All intervals formed by stacking the four notes of a diminished seventh chord are what type?
A) Major thirds
B) Minor thirds
C) Perfect fourths
D) Diminished fifths
- 6. What is the integer notation for a diminished seventh chord?
A) {0, 4, 7, 10}
B) {0, 2, 4, 7}
C) {0, 3, 6, 9}
D) {0, 3, 7, 10}
- 7. Why are the four inversions of a diminished seventh chord symmetrical?
A) Stacking yet another minor third returns to the root note
B) The root note never changes position
C) All intervals are major seconds
D) It contains only augmented fourths
- 8. To which interval is the diminished seventh interval enharmonically equivalent?
A) A minor sixth
B) A diminished sixth
C) A major sixth
D) A minor seventh
- 9. What enharmonically equivalent chord label is given to the diminished seventh chord as (1, ♭3, ♭5, ♮6)?
A) A dominant seventh flat five chord
B) A major sixth chord with a sharpened fifth
C) A minor sixth chord with a flattened fifth
D) A half-diminished seventh chord
- 10. In which musical scale does the diminished seventh chord occur as a leading-tone seventh chord?
A) Major scale
B) Melodic minor scale
C) Harmonic minor scale
D) Pentatonic scale
- 11. What musical function does the diminished seventh chord typically have?
A) Mediant function
B) Subdominant function
C) Tonic function
D) Dominant function
- 12. How many diminished fifths does a diminished seventh chord contain?
A) One
B) Three
C) Zero
D) Two
- 13. How do the two diminished fifths in a diminished seventh chord typically resolve?
A) Outwards
B) Parallel
C) Inwards
D) Oblique
- 14. What are common notations for the diminished seventh chord with C as the root?
A) Cmaj7 or C+7
B) Cdim7 or Co7
C) Cø7 or Cmin7
D) Cm7 or C7
- 15. What does the notation Cdim or Co normally denote?
A) A three-note diminished triad
B) A half-diminished seventh chord
C) A minor sixth chord
D) A four-note diminished seventh chord
- 16. Who tuned the diminished seventh chord as 10:12:14:17?
A) Walter Piston
B) Arnold Schoenberg
C) Jean-Philippe Rameau
D) François-Joseph Fétis
- 17. What tuning limit is associated with François-Joseph Fétis's tuning of the chord?
A) 7-limit tuning
B) 17-limit tuning
C) 12-limit tuning
D) 5-limit tuning
- 18. In the less complex analysis method, what is treated as the root of the chord?
A) The subdominant note
B) The leading tone
C) The dominant note
D) The mediant note
- 19. The alternative analysis method treats the diminished seventh chord as what type of chord?
A) A secondary leading-tone triad
B) An incomplete dominant ninth
C) An augmented sixth chord
D) A complete dominant seventh
- 20. In C minor, which notes form the natural viio7 chord?
A) C–E♭–G–B♭
B) B♮–D–F–A♭
C) G–B–D–F
D) A♭–C–E♭–G
- 21. The viio7 chord in a minor key is equivalent to which dominant chord without its root?
A) Dominant 7♭9
B) Dominant 9
C) Dominant 7
D) Dominant 11
- 22. Which theorist proposed the dominant ninth analysis method before Walter Piston championed it?
A) Heinrich Schenker
B) Jean-Philippe Rameau
C) Arnold Schoenberg
D) François-Joseph Fétis
- 23. Which jazz guitarist advocated the dominant ninth view and supplied missing roots in bass lines?
A) Sal Salvador
B) Joe Pass
C) Wes Montgomery
D) Django Reinhardt
- 24. Which theorist questioned the dominant ninth theory and stated the dominant ninth chord is not a real chord formation?
A) Sal Salvador
B) Walter Piston
C) Heinrich Schenker
D) Arnold Schoenberg
- 25. According to Heinrich Schenker, what exists between all univalent chords rising out of the fifth degree?
A) A dissonance
B) An identity
C) No relation
D) A kinship
- 26. How did Jean-Philippe Rameau explain the diminished seventh chord?
A) As a stack of four major thirds
B) As an altered major ninth chord
C) As a dominant seventh chord whose fundamental bass is borrowed from the sixth degree in minor, raised a semitone
D) As an independent chord with no dominant root relation
- 27. In the key of C, what dominant seventh chord does Rameau use as a base for his derivation?
A) D7 (D–F♯–A–C)
B) C7 (C–E–G–B♭)
C) G7 (G–B–D–F)
D) B7 (B–D♯–F♯–A)
- 28. In Rameau's explanation for the key of C, what notes are produced by the sixth degree borrowed from the minor scale and raised a semitone?
A) A–C–E–G
B) A♭–B–D–F
C) A♭–C–E♭–G
D) B–D–F–A♭
- 29. In his Treatise on Harmony, what intervals did Rameau observe make up a chord where the ear is not offended?
A) Three major thirds and a diminished third
B) Four major thirds
C) Two perfect fourths and two minor thirds
D) Three minor thirds and an augmented second
- 30. Which tuning did Jean-Philippe Rameau favor, according to the text?
A) Just intonation
B) Equal temperament
C) Quarter-comma meantone
D) Pythagorean tuning
- 31. In quarter-comma meantone tuning, the augmented second is close to what just septimal minor third ratio?
A) 7:6
B) 9:8
C) 10:9
D) 5:4
- 32. What kind of chord is explicitly defined as a four-note chord in the text?
A) A seventh chord
B) A sixth chord
C) A triad
D) An eleventh chord
- 33. Which of the following is an enharmonic variant notation for a diminished seventh chord?
A) Csus4
B) Caug7
C) Cmaj7
D) Cm6♭5
- 34. Who championed the incomplete dominant ninth analysis after Arnold Schoenberg?
A) Heinrich Schenker
B) François-Joseph Fétis
C) Jean-Philippe Rameau
D) Walter Piston
- 35. What Roman numeral notation represents a sharpened subdominant with diminished seventh chord?
A) ♯vio7
B) ♯iio7
C) viio7
D) ♯ivo7
- 36. How is the sharpened subdominant with diminished seventh chord more correctly represented in classical music?
A) ii7/V
B) viio7/V
C) iv7/V
D) I7/V
- 37. What is a common traditional jazz or Dixieland progression mentioned in the text?
A) IV–♯ivo7–V7
B) I–IV–V–I
C) I–vi–ii–V
D) ii–V–I–VI
- 38. What note is enharmonically equivalent to D♯ in the key of C according to the text?
A) E♭
B) F♯
C) E♯
D) D♭
- 39. What does the raised supertonic seventh resolve to in major keys?
A) The dominant
B) The submediant
C) The subdominant
D) The tonic
- 40. In both cases of common-tone diminished seventh resolution, how do the altered tones resolve?
A) Downward by half step
B) Upward by half step
C) Upward by whole step
D) Remain stationary
- 41. What is the primary function of the cto7 chord according to the text?
A) To establish a new tonic key
B) To modulate to the relative minor
C) Simply one of embellishment
D) To create a deceptive cadence
- 42. When embellishing I, how is the cto7 chord most often spelled?
A) ♯iio7
B) viio7/V
C) ♯ivo7
D) ♯vio7
- 43. When embellishing V, how is the cto7 chord most often spelled?
A) ♯vio7
B) ♯iio7
C) ii7
D) ♯ivo7
- 44. What distinguishes cto7 from the viio7/V chord?
A) Resolution
B) Dynamic level
C) Tempo markings
D) Spelling
- 45. During which era did European composers become aware of the expressive potential of the diminished seventh chord?
A) Renaissance era
B) Classical era
C) Romantic era
D) Baroque era
- 46. In which work by J. S. Bach is there a famous example of the diminished seventh chord setting the angry multitude's harsh reply?
A) St. John Passion
B) Goldberg Variations
C) St. Matthew Passion
D) Mass in B minor
- 47. Whose resurrection is heralded by a powerful diminished seventh chord in the final scene of Mozart's Don Giovanni?
A) The murdered Commendatore
B) Don Juan
C) Leporello
D) Ottavio
- 48. In what year was Mozart's opera Don Giovanni premiered?
A) 1821
B) 1787
C) 1737
D) 1806
- 49. Which composer wrote the song 'Die Stadt' from Schwanengesang?
A) Carl Maria von Weber
B) Ludwig van Beethoven
C) Franz Schubert
D) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- 50. Which composer's operas, particularly Der Freischütz and Euryanthe, featured many passages using the diminished seventh chord?
A) Arnold Schoenberg
B) Carl Maria von Weber
C) Richard Wagner
D) Hector Berlioz
- 51. Who was the early biographer of Carl Maria von Weber who noted Beethoven's spoken disparagement of Euryanthe?
A) Alexander Wheelock Thayer
B) Arnold Schoenberg
C) Edward T. Cone
D) J. S. Bach
- 52. Which opera by Carl Maria von Weber features the Wolf's Glen scene?
A) St. Matthew Passion
B) Euryanthe
C) Don Giovanni
D) Der Freischütz
- 53. In which Beethoven work does a passage linking the two final movements clearly evoke mystery and terror using a diminished seventh?
A) Schwanengesang
B) Symphonie Fantastique
C) Appassionata sonata, Op. 57
D) Harmonielehre
- 54. How is the diminished seventh chord first introduced in the transitional passage of Beethoven's Appassionata sonata?
A) Sharp stabbing fortissimo chord
B) Rapid ascending staccato scale
C) Unaccompanied vocal solo
D) Slowly rolled pianissimo arpeggio
- 55. Which composer's final movement of Symphonie Fantastique reflects Weber's influence through its copious use of diminished sevenths?
A) Franz Schubert
B) Arnold Schoenberg
C) Ludwig van Beethoven
D) Hector Berlioz
- 56. What spooky atmosphere is evoked by the diminished seventh chords in the final movement of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique?
A) A Witch's Sabbath
B) A royal coronation ceremony
C) A triumphant military victory
D) A peaceful pastoral morning
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