Unit 7 world music – Flashcards
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The most important way of making music in most non-western cultures is by
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Singing
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A nasal intense and strained tone is cultivated by singers from
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The Middle East and North Africa
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Singers in the Middle East and North Africa cultivate a vocal Timbre that
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Has a nasal intense and strained tone
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Musical instruments whose sound generator is a stretched skin or other membrane are classified as
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Membranophones
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Chordophones are instruments whose sound generator is a
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Stretched string
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Musical instruments who sound generator is a column of air are classified as
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Aerophone
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Musical instruments whose own material is the sound generator are classified as
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Idiophones
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The choice of musical instruments in non-western cultures frequently depends on
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Which of the following statements is not true?
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Non-western music primarily employed the same major and minor scales as western music
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Non-western musical scales often contain________ tones
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All of these
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Music that has a texture in which all parts perform the same basic Melody but in versions that differ in ornamentation or rhythm is called
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Heterophonic
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Most of the music of sub-Saharan Africa features
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Which of the following statements is not true with regard to the music of sub-Saharan Africa?
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The music is mostly monophonic texture
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Which of the following statements is not true with regard to sub-Saharan Africa
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The most common type of instrument is a chordophone
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A performance style in which the phrases of a soloist are repeated answered by those of a chorus are known as
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Call and response
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The mbria be described as an
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Melodic idiophone with tons of metal or bamboo attached to the soundboard
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A melodic idiophone with tons of metal or bamboo attached to a sounding board, used in sub-Saharan Africa is known as the
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Mbria
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Vocalist in Africa often use the_________ to accompany themselves
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Mbria
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Which of the following statements is not true with regard to sub-Saharan Africa?
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Vocalist in Africa often use the pressure drum to accompany themselves
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Drums in sub-Saharan Africa
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Drums in sub-Saharan Africa are often considered
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A type of music of the akan-speaking peoples of Ghana is known as
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Ompeh
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In the song ompeh there are references to death
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3
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In the song ompeh the performers combine of the languages spoken in Ghana
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2
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Ompeh a song from the central region of Ghana features Progressive sounds complex polyrhythms and
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A call and response pattern
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The__________ is a long-necked lute with four metal strings used in Indian music to provide a continuous drone
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Tambura
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Which of the following statements is not true?
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Musical traditions in India as in the west are transmitted through formal education by studying textbooks and written music
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Which of the following is not characteristic of Indian music?
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The basic texture is polyphonic
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A pattern of notes used in Indian music to create Melody is called
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Raga
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A repeated cycle of beads or rhythmic pattern in Indian music is called
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Tala
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Which of the following statements is not true?
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Although the variety of Thomas, or Indian beat Cycles, is extensive, they are all basically performed in the same tempo
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The___________ is a long neck loot with movable Frets 7 strings and 9 - 13 sympathetic strings popular in North India
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Sitar
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The_________ is a fretted long-necked plucked instrument with formality and 3 drone strings popular in South India
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Vina
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The_____________ is a pair of single-headed drums played by one performer popular in North India
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Tabla
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When instrumental or vocal Parts perform the same basic Melody but in versions that differ in ornamentation or Rhythm the texture is
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Heterophonic
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Heterophonic texture occurs when instrumentalists or vocalists perform
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The same basic Melody but in versions that differ in ornamentation or rhythm
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Ravi Shankar is a master of which instrument?
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Sitar
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In the 1960s ravi Shankar taught the members of
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The Beatles
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Ravi Shankar is the father of
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Norah Jones
