Quiz 2: Week Four

Question 1

Tribal Music/Styles

Answer 1

Music of native North Americans and their customs involved with music culture; musical practices that are unique to a particle ethnolinguistic community or group of communities

Question 2

Intertribal Music/Styles

Answer 2

Music of different tribes that share common music techniques etc. Shared among tribal groups and communities; musical genres and practices that are widely dispersed and shared among a number of different Native groups and communities across North America

Question 3

Powwow

Answer 3

A Native American social, ceremonial, and spiritual gathering featuring food, singing, and dancing.

Question 4

Vocables

Answer 4

Meaningless vocals in a song, words that aren’t defined

Question 5

Northern Plains Singing

Answer 5

Unison singing, steady drum beat from the “Big Drum”, high-pitched, tense, loud vocal production, terraced descending melodic line, no fixed or stable tonal centers, rhythmic displacement

Question 6

Push Up

Answer 6

Push Ups occurs when the lead begins again after the chorus and coda are performed

Question 7

Honor Beats

Answer 7

Check beats, hard beats dum dum DUM dum

Question 8

Grand Entry

Answer 8

The first part of a Powwow ceremony which is procession with the Flag Song

Question 9

Regalia

Answer 9

The traditional outfit worm during a powwow

Question 10

Men’s and Women’s powwow dancing

Answer 10

Men: traditional dance, grass dance, fancy dance
Women: Traditional dance, Jingle Dress, Fancy Shawl

Question 11

Native American Popular Music

Answer 11

Lyrics make political statements with a blending of styles with Artists like Buffy Sainte-Marie, Floyd “Red Crow” Westerman, Redbone, and XIT

Question 12

Cahuilla Bird Songs

Answer 12

Traditional songs passed down from gen to gen that tell stories about ancestors and collect family history

Question 13

Zampoña

Answer 13

Refers to panpipes in Andean South America, a set of end blown bamboo tubes lashed together each tube produces different pitches

Question 14

K’antu

Answer 14

ceremonial panpipe music from the altiplano Peru and Bolivia

Question 15

Arca

Answer 15

the 7-tubed female follower

Question 16

Ira

Answer 16

the 6-tubed male leader

Question 17

Hocketing

Answer 17

melody is dispersed among two or more voices or instruments; when one sounds the others do not

Question 18

Comunas

Answer 18

small clusters of houses of the Quichua people of Northern Andes of Ecuador

Question 19

Chaki ñanes

Answer 19

the footpaths that connect houses

Question 20

Sanjuán

Answer 20

The northern Ecuadorian highland Quichua genre with harp w/o pedals as principal instrument; harp has been in Latin America for over 400 years

Question 21

Imbabura Harp

Answer 21

Common in Imbabura Province only, made of cedar and used wooden nails, sound emanates through 3 circular holes on top of sound box, consists of gut, nylon, and steel strings

Question 22

isorhytm

Answer 22

equal rhythm, the rhythm of the first half of phrase is identical to second half

Question 23

Double Couplets

Answer 23

one two-line verse, then double couplet or harp interlude