A composer writes a 4-measure melody about birds in 4/4 time. If each measure contains one whole note, how many beats does the entire melody last?

A rehearsal piece about cats is marked Allegro at 132 beats per minute. About how many beats will occur in 3 minutes?

A student claps a rhythm about a frog using eighth notes only in 2/4 time. How many eighth notes fit in one measure?

An orchestra part about horses has 6 measures in 3/4 time. If each measure contains three quarter notes, how many quarter notes are played in total?

A whale song arrangement lasts 5 minutes and 30 seconds. How many seconds is that in total?

A zookeeper-themed suite has 8 measures in 6/8 time. If each measure contains six eighth-note beats, how many eighth-note beats are in the suite?

A motif representing a squirrel is repeated 7 times. Each statement of the motif is 2 measures long in 4/4 time. How many measures are heard altogether?

A percussion line for elephants uses quarter-note triplets. If 3 quarter-note triplets are performed, how many quarter-note beats do they occupy in standard notation?

A melody about dolphins is transposed up by 5 semitones. If the original highest note is G4, what is the transposed highest note?

A song about foxes is written in ternary form (ABA). If section A is 12 measures and section B is 8 measures, how many measures are in the full form?

A recording of a chorus about bees includes 4 vocal parts. Each part sings a 16-measure passage, and the parts enter together. How many total performer-measures are sung across all parts?

A piece about wolves has a dynamic swell from piano to forte over 9 measures. If the crescendo is spread evenly and the starting dynamic is treated as 1 unit above silence while forte is 5 units, how many dynamic units does the music increase across the passage?

A composer notates a rhythm about penguins with 3 measures of 7/8 followed by 2 measures of 4/4. How many eighth-note beats are in the entire passage?

A jazz chart about raccoons has a 12-bar blues form. If the melody is stated twice and each chorus is 12 bars, how many bars are played before the solo section begins?

An ensemble work about insects is scored for 18 musicians. If 2/3 of them play melody instruments and the rest play percussion, how many musicians play percussion?

A professor asks students to compare two animal themes: one in 5/4 lasting 40 beats and one in 4/4 lasting 40 beats. How many more measures does the 4/4 theme require than the 5/4 theme?

A symphonic movement about lions changes key after 56 measures. The first section is in 8/8 and lasts 32 measures. The second section is in 6/8 and lasts the rest of the movement. How many eighth-note beats are in the second section?

A song cycle about birds has three movements. Movement 1 has 96 beats at quarter note = 120, Movement 2 has 72 beats at quarter note = 90, and Movement 3 has 120 beats at quarter note = 100. Which movement lasts the longest in seconds, and by how many seconds longer than the shortest movement?

A studio arrangement about ocean animals layers 5 ostinatos. The first repeats every 3 beats, the second every 4 beats, the third every 6 beats, the fourth every 8 beats, and the fifth every 12 beats. What is the earliest beat on which all five ostinatos realign?

A composer creates an advanced animal-themed suite with four sections. Section A is 38 measures in 7/8, Section B is 24 measures in 5/4, Section C is 30 measures in 3/4, and Section D is 16 measures in 9/8. What is the total performance length in quarter-note beats?