Bar (music) - Quiz
Bar music
  • 1. What is another term for a bar in musical notation?
A) Measure
B) Time signature
C) Clef
D) Staff
  • 2. What are the vertical lines that bound a bar called?
A) Ledger lines
B) This is a trick, barlines and bar lines are both used
C) Bar lines
D) Staff lines
E) Barlines
  • 3. What do bar lines usually indicate in music?
A) The volume of the music
B) The end of a movement only
C) One or more recurring beats
D) The pitch of the notes
  • 4. What normally indicates the length of a bar?
A) Tempo marking
B) Key signature
C) Time signature
D) Dynamic marking
  • 5. How is the length of a bar measured?
A) By the total duration in seconds
B) By the height of the notes on the staff
C) By the number of beats per minute
D) By the number of note values it contains
  • 6. What do regular bar lines consist of?
A) Two dots placed one above the other
B) A dotted line stretching horizontally
C) Two thick vertical lines close together
D) A thin vertical line extending from the top line to the bottom line of the staff
  • 7. Where might regular bar lines sometimes extend in an orchestral score?
A) Beyond the entire page margins
B) Between a family of instruments
C) Through the title of the piece
D) Around the metronome marking
  • 8. What does a double bar line consist of?
A) Two single bar lines drawn close together, or a bar line followed by a thicker bar line
B) Three parallel thin vertical lines
C) Dotted lines connecting two staves
D) A single thick line with two dots
  • 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 bar line
B) A type of measure
C) Neither a bar nor a bar line
D) Both a bar and a bar line
  • 11. When is a double bar typically used regarding key signatures?
A) When the key signature remains entirely unchanged
B) Only at the very beginning of a piece
C) When removing a key signature
D) When followed by a new key signature
  • 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) A dashed line stretching between staves
D) The music end with two dots, one above the other
  • 13. What do the two dots on a repeat sign indicate?
A) That the key signature is changing
B) That the section of music before is to be repeated
C) That the tempo should double
D) That the following notes are staccato
  • 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 previous key signature
C) From the beginning of the piece or movement
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 separate different instrument families
B) To change the time signature
C) To indicate the beginning of the passage to be repeated
D) To mark the end of the entire composition
  • 17. What is a mensurstrich?
A) A dashed line used in Gregorian chant notation
B) A bar line that goes through each individual staff
C) A thick double bar line at the end of a movement
D) A bar line which stretches only between staves of a score
  • 18. Who uses mensurstrich notation?
A) Sound engineers
B) Modern jazz composers
C) Pop music producers
D) Editors of early music
  • 19. Why do editors of early music use mensurstrich?
A) To make the scores look more colorful
B) To indicate faster tempos
C) To help orient modern musicians when reading music originally written without bar lines
D) To show where instruments should tune
  • 20. When are lines extending only partway through the staff used?
A) Rarely
B) In every modern pop song
C) Whenever there is a key change
D) As standard practice in all orchestral scores
  • 21. What is one purpose of lines extending only partway through the staff?
A) To indicate a multirest
B) To help orient the reader in very long measures in complex time signatures
C) To permanently end a musical movement
D) To double the volume of the orchestra
  • 22. What is another purpose of lines extending partway through the staff?
A) To indicate a change in instrumentation
B) To mark repeat signs
C) As brief section divisions in Gregorian chant notation
D) To show the beginning of a grand staff
  • 23. What types of alternative bar lines do some composers use?
A) Thick triangular bar lines
B) Dashed or dotted bar lines
C) Neon-colored 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 confuse the performers
B) To save space on the manuscript paper
C) To ensure every part ended at the exact same second
D) To indicate different stress patterns from part to part
  • 25. What may replace many consecutive bars containing only rests?
A) A mensurstrich
B) A double bar line with dots
C) A single bar containing a multirest
D) A complex time signature
  • 26. What does the number above a multirest show?
A) The number of instruments playing
B) The number of beats per bar
C) The tempo in beats per minute
D) The number of bars replaced
  • 27. What is the first note in a musical bar usually called?
A) Downbeat
B) Hypermeasure
C) Anacrusis
D) Mensurstrich
  • 28. How is the downbeat usually treated in relation to other notes in the bar?
A) Omitted entirely
B) Stressed slightly
C) Played twice as loud
D) Always accented heavily
  • 29. Who stated that a bar line is much more than a mere accent?
A) Ludwig van Beethoven
B) Igor Stravinsky
C) Edward T. Cone
D) Johann Sebastian Bach
  • 30. What do bars and bar lines indicate besides beats?
A) Dynamic levels
B) Tempo changes
C) Grouping
D) Instrumentation
  • 31. What is an incomplete bar at the beginning of a piece of music called?
A) Hypermeasure
B) Downbeat
C) Mensurstrich
D) Anacrusis
  • 32. How are bars contained within first or second endings numbered?
A) With letters instead of numbers
B) Consecutively
C) In reverse order
D) Randomly
  • 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) Early 20th century
B) Late 16th century
C) Early 15th century
D) Mid 18th 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) Mensurstrich
B) Hypermeasure
C) Downbeat
D) Anacrusis
  • 37. What is another term for a hypermeasure?
A) Mensurstrich
B) Measure-group
C) Downbeat
D) Anacrusis
  • 38. Who coined the term 'hypermeasure'?
A) Johann Sebastian Bach
B) Edward T. Cone
C) Ludwig van Beethoven
D) Igor Stravinsky
  • 39. In which book was the term hypermeasure coined?
A) Music and Meter
B) The History of Bar Lines
C) Musical Form and Musical Performance
D) The Poetics of Music
  • 40. What publication year is associated with the book where 'hypermeasure' was coined?
A) 1945
B) 1868
C) 1968
D) 2001
  • 41. A hypermeasure is similar to which less formal notion?
A) A phrase
B) A tempo mark
C) A melody
D) A chord progression
  • 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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