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AP Music Theory part-writing and voice leading rules quiz quiz

12questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. From highest to lowest, what are the four voices used in four-part writing?

  2. Which pair of moving voices is forbidden in part-writing?

  3. How does the leading tone (scale degree seven) typically resolve, especially in an outer voice or at a cadence?

  4. How must the seventh of a seventh chord resolve?

  5. In a root-position triad, which chord member is normally doubled?

  6. Why should the leading tone never be doubled?

  7. In figured bass, what inversion does the symbol 6 (a six over the bass note) indicate for a triad?

  8. What is the maximum spacing recommended between two adjacent upper voices (for example soprano and alto)?

  9. What does it mean for two voices to cross in four-part writing?

  10. How does a Roman numeral differ from a figured bass in a part-writing question?

  11. What is the safest order in which to write the four voices of a progression?

  12. In a dominant seventh chord in C major (G, B, D, F), which note is the chordal seventh and how does it resolve?