Bar (music) - Quiz
Bar music
  • 1. What is another term for a bar in musical notation?
A) Time signature
B) Measure
C) Clef
D) Staff
  • 2. What are the vertical lines that bound a bar called?
A) This is a trick, barlines and bar lines are both used
B) Ledger lines
C) Staff lines
D) Bar lines
E) Barlines
  • 3. What do bar lines usually indicate in music?
A) The end of a movement only
B) The pitch of the notes
C) The volume of the music
D) One or more recurring beats
  • 4. What normally indicates the length of a bar?
A) Key signature
B) Dynamic marking
C) Tempo marking
D) Time signature
  • 5. How is the length of a bar measured?
A) By the height of the notes on the staff
B) By the number of beats per minute
C) By the number of note values it contains
D) By the total duration in seconds
  • 6. What do regular bar lines consist of?
A) Two dots placed one above the other
B) A dotted line stretching horizontally
C) A thin vertical line extending from the top line to the bottom line of the staff
D) Two thick vertical lines close together
  • 7. Where might regular bar lines sometimes extend in an orchestral score?
A) Between a family of instruments
B) Beyond the entire page margins
C) Around the metronome marking
D) Through the title of the piece
  • 8. What does a double bar line consist of?
A) Dotted lines connecting two staves
B) A single thick line with two dots
C) Three parallel thin vertical lines
D) Two single bar lines drawn close together, or a bar line followed by a thicker bar line
  • 9. What does a double bar line separating two sections indicate?
A) The start of a repeat sign
B) A multirest
C) A change in tempo only
D) Separating two sections within a piece, or the end of a piece or movement
  • 10. Does a double bar refer to a type of bar or a type of bar line?
A) A type of measure
B) A type of bar line
C) Both a bar and a bar line
D) Neither a bar nor a bar line
  • 11. When is a double bar typically used regarding key signatures?
A) When followed by a new key signature
B) Only at the very beginning of a piece
C) When removing a key signature
D) When the key signature remains entirely unchanged
  • 12. What does a repeat sign look like?
A) A single thick vertical line with no dots
B) A multirest with a number above it
C) The music end with two dots, one above the other
D) A dashed line stretching between staves
  • 13. What do the two dots on a repeat sign indicate?
A) That the following notes are staccato
B) That the key signature is changing
C) That the tempo should double
D) That the section of music before is to be repeated
  • 14. Where is the repeat understood to begin if a begin-repeat sign is absent?
A) From the middle of the staff
B) From the beginning of the piece or movement
C) From the previous key signature
D) From the very last bar line
  • 15. Why does a begin-repeat sign appearing at the beginning of a staff not act as a bar line?
A) Because it is drawn horizontally
B) Because it has no dots
C) Because no bar is before it
D) Because it indicates the end of a piece
  • 16. What is the only function of a begin-repeat sign at the beginning of a staff?
A) To mark the end of the entire composition
B) To indicate the beginning of the passage to be repeated
C) To separate different instrument families
D) To change the time signature
  • 17. What is a mensurstrich?
A) A bar line that goes through each individual staff
B) A bar line which stretches only between staves of a score
C) A thick double bar line at the end of a movement
D) A dashed line used in Gregorian chant notation
  • 18. Who uses mensurstrich notation?
A) Pop music producers
B) Modern jazz composers
C) Editors of early music
D) Sound engineers
  • 19. Why do editors of early music use mensurstrich?
A) To help orient modern musicians when reading music originally written without bar lines
B) To show where instruments should tune
C) To make the scores look more colorful
D) To indicate faster tempos
  • 20. When are lines extending only partway through the staff used?
A) In every modern pop song
B) Whenever there is a key change
C) Rarely
D) As standard practice in all orchestral scores
  • 21. What is one purpose of lines extending only partway through the staff?
A) To double the volume of the orchestra
B) To indicate a multirest
C) To permanently end a musical movement
D) To help orient the reader in very long measures in complex time signatures
  • 22. What is another purpose of lines extending partway through the staff?
A) To show the beginning of a grand staff
B) To mark repeat signs
C) To indicate a change in instrumentation
D) As brief section divisions in Gregorian chant notation
  • 23. What types of alternative bar lines do some composers use?
A) Thick triangular bar lines
B) Neon-colored bar lines
C) Dashed or dotted bar lines
D) Wavy or zig-zag bar lines
  • 24. Why did composers like Hugo Distler place bar lines at different places in different parts?
A) To save space on the manuscript paper
B) To ensure every part ended at the exact same second
C) To confuse the performers
D) To indicate different stress patterns from part to part
  • 25. What may replace many consecutive bars containing only rests?
A) A single bar containing a multirest
B) A double bar line with dots
C) A mensurstrich
D) A complex time signature
  • 26. What does the number above a multirest show?
A) The number of beats per bar
B) The tempo in beats per minute
C) The number of instruments playing
D) The number of bars replaced
  • 27. What is the first note in a musical bar usually called?
A) Mensurstrich
B) Hypermeasure
C) Downbeat
D) Anacrusis
  • 28. How is the downbeat usually treated in relation to other notes in the bar?
A) Omitted entirely
B) Stressed slightly
C) Always accented heavily
D) Played twice as loud
  • 29. Who stated that a bar line is much more than a mere accent?
A) Edward T. Cone
B) Ludwig van Beethoven
C) Igor Stravinsky
D) Johann Sebastian Bach
  • 30. What do bars and bar lines indicate besides beats?
A) Tempo changes
B) Dynamic levels
C) Grouping
D) Instrumentation
  • 31. What is an incomplete bar at the beginning of a piece of music called?
A) Anacrusis
B) Downbeat
C) Mensurstrich
D) Hypermeasure
  • 32. How are bars contained within first or second endings numbered?
A) With letters instead of numbers
B) Consecutively
C) Randomly
D) In reverse order
  • 33. In which centuries were the earliest bar lines used in keyboard and vihuela music?
A) 17th and 18th centuries
B) 15th and 16th centuries
C) 19th and 20th centuries
D) 13th and 14th centuries
  • 34. When did bar lines begin to be introduced into ensemble music?
A) Late 16th century
B) Early 15th century
C) Mid 18th century
D) Early 20th century
  • 35. When were bar lines finally used in the modern style with every measure being the same length?
A) Early 16th century
B) Late 15th century
C) Mid-17th century
D) Early 19th century
  • 36. What do modern editions of early music sometimes use as a compromise when original notation lacked bar lines?
A) Hypermeasure
B) Mensurstrich
C) Anacrusis
D) Downbeat
  • 37. What is another term for a hypermeasure?
A) Downbeat
B) Measure-group
C) Mensurstrich
D) Anacrusis
  • 38. Who coined the term 'hypermeasure'?
A) Igor Stravinsky
B) Johann Sebastian Bach
C) Ludwig van Beethoven
D) Edward T. Cone
  • 39. In which book was the term hypermeasure coined?
A) Musical Form and Musical Performance
B) The History of Bar Lines
C) The Poetics of Music
D) Music and Meter
  • 40. What publication year is associated with the book where 'hypermeasure' was coined?
A) 2001
B) 1968
C) 1868
D) 1945
  • 41. A hypermeasure is similar to which less formal notion?
A) A chord progression
B) A tempo mark
C) A melody
D) A phrase
  • 42. Adjacent hypermeasures must be of the same length to create a sense of what?
A) Hypermeter
B) Polyphony
C) Syncopation
D) Atonality
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