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Title: Mus-105
Description: Instrument family
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Created: 2012-01-20
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    • Question
    • Answer
    • Side 3
    • cello
    • A. strings
    • cymbals
    • D. percussion
    • flute
    • E. woodwinds
    • synthesizer
    • B. keyboards
    • trumpet
    • C. brass
    • 1400-1600
    • E. Renaissance
    • 1800-1900
    • D. Romantic
    • 1750-1800
    • C. Classic
    • 400-1400
    • A. Middle Ages
    • 1900-present
    • F. Twentieth Century
    • 1600-1750
    • B. Baroque
    • What term is used to describe musical traditions in which the music is not written down, but is transferred directly from one person to another, from one generation to the next?
    • Correct Answer:

      oral
    • Which of the following musical traditions currently exerts the greatest influence on music around the world?
    • Correct Answer:

      Western classical and popular music
    • Among the Mandinka of Gambia and Senegal, the highly specialized professional musician, who serves a function as both historian of the tribe and the official singer of praises, is known as the
    • Correct Answer:

      jali.
    • Most of the music performed in classical music concerts within the U.S. was composed
    • Correct Answer:

      between 100 and 250 years ago.
    • According to the "anthropological" description provided in your textbook, U.S. culture (including its musical aspect) would best be described as
    • Correct Answer:

      diverse.
    • According to the text -- within both Eastern- and Western-influenced regions of the world -- what two types of music lie between the extremes of classical art music and orally-transmitted music?
    • Correct Answer:

      folk music and popular music
    • Which style of music -- existing somewhere between the extremes of classical and orally-transmitted music -- is often several generations old and continues to be performed in rural areas away from the educated, usually urban, elite?
    • Your Answer:

      folk music
      CORRECT. Typically, folk music is relatively simple in style, is normally performed by nonprofessionals, and is understood and appreciated by a broad segment of the population
    • Because most music in other cultures is not written down, a different attitude exists in regard to music of the past. For these cultures, music is most often regarded as
    • Your Answer:

      a living, flexible artifact, constantly open to change.
      CORRECT. Because music of the past is not documented in a tangible form, music is, in a sense, being constantly reinvented.
    • Since the 12th century, European classical music has focused more and more on
    • Correct Answer:

      polyphony and harmony.
    • Though there are significant exceptions (e.g., Africa), music of other cultures most often consists of how many simultaneous melodies?
    • Correct Answer:

      one
    • The type of instruments a culture develops depends primarily on
    • Correct Answer:

      the raw materials available.
    • The alphorn fits most appropriately into which of the following musical instrument categories?
    • Correct Answer:

      aerophones: wind instruments
    • The mbira fits most appropriately into which of the following musical instrument categories?
    • Your Answer:

      idiophones: instruments in which the vibrating object itself is hit or shaken
      CORRECT. Other examples of idiophones include the xylophone and gong.
    • Throughout the world, the role that women play in making music varies from culture to culture. The Tuaregs of the Sahara are quite unique in that women are
    • Correct Answer:

      the only instrumentalists and do most of the singing.
    • Medieval courtly orchestral music of Japan is known as
    • Correct Answer:

      gagaku.
    • In addition to ancient music of the feudal period in Japan, there is an impressive repertoire of "classical" music from the Japanese Edo period. What were the dates of this important period of Japanese history?
    • Correct Answer:

      1615 to 1868
    • What family of instruments is favored in the music of most sub-Saharan cultures in Africa?
    • Correct Answer:

      percussion
    • What African instrument -- one of the most common throughout the sub-Saharan region -- is often referred to as a "thumb piano" because of the way that metal strips are plucked by the thumbs of both hands to produce musical sound?
    • Correct Answer:

      mbira
    • The musical traditions to be studied in the remainder of your text, Understanding Music, are those of
    • Correct Answer:

      the West.
    • Bunraku
    • Traditional japanese puppet theater
    • Didjeridoo
    • Wooden wind instrument in use among the Australian aborigines
    • Ensemble
    • Usually used to refer to opera scenes in which several individuals sing together
    • Gagaku
    • Ancient Japanese orchestral music
    • Jali
    • Official singer and historian of the Mandinka tribe of West Africa
    • Koto
    • Japanese instrument plucked like a zither
    • Kabuki
    • Japanese style of traditional musical theater, involving an all-male cast
    • Mbira
    • African instrument made of a small wooden box or gourd with thin metal strips attached
    • Noh
    • Ancient Japanese theatrical genre, with highly stylized acting
    • Oral tradition
    • Sitar
    • Shamisen
    • Japanese plucked instrument with three strings and a long neck
    • Shakuhachi
    • Japanese end-blown bamboo flute
    • 12-bar blues
    • The form and chord progression associated with playing or singing the blues
    • 32-bar AABA form
    • Format involving four eight-measure phrases, the first two and the last being the same.
      this form is very common in popular songs and jazz
    • Bar lines
    • Lines in a musical score that designate short units of equal length
    • Chamber music
    • Music written to be played in a small space, usually involving a small number of instruments,.
    • Consonant
    • Sounding smooth together
    • Dissonant
    • Sounding rough together
    • From
    • The organization of a work of art, literature, or music
    • Gamelan
    • Indonesian musical ensemble involving mostly metal percussion
    • Harmony
    • Notes sounding together
    • Mbira
    • African instrument made of a small wooden box or gourd with thin metal strips attached
    • Melody
    • An organized musical line
    • Movement
    • Large, separate section of a musical work
    • Meter
    • A regular rhythm
    • Octave
    • The nearest distance between two notes of the same name
    • Polyphony
    • Music with more than one line sounding at the same time.
    • Rhythm
    • The organization of stressed beats
    • Syncopation
    • The stressing of a note that comes before the expected beat
    • String quartet
    • Work. usually in four movements, for two violins, viola, and cello
    • Theme and variations
    • Form of a work or a movement in which successive statements of a melody are altered or embel lished each time.
    • Tone color
    • The distinctive sound of an instrument or voice