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Question 1

Where is Nueva Cancion music from

Answer 1

Chile

Question 2

What is Nueva Cancion?

Answer 2

A youth based style rooted in left-wing concepts and social justice. The topics were often about revolutionary leaders, martyrs, and historical events that highlighted injustice

Question 3

who sings the song: Supe en el Norte Que Había

Answer 3

Carlos Marambio, a boy singer from Chile

Question 4

What are key musical characteristics of Chilean folk music?

Answer 4

modal, rather than common-practice harmony, with a scale that includes both the major and minor third from the tonic

Question 5

What genre is Desengáñame Con Tiempo?

Answer 5

cueca, a chilean dance genre that includes both 3/4 and 6/8 meter

Question 6

who were the key leaders of the nueva cancion movement?

Answer 6

Victor Jara and Violeta Parra

Question 7

What is the genre of ‘The People United Will Never Be Defeated’

Answer 7

Nueva Cancion

Question 8

What is the origin of the accordion?

Answer 8

1821, Berlin

Question 9

when were the german states unified into a single nation?

Answer 9

1871

Question 10

What is entarte musik

Answer 10

music considered ‘degenerate’ and banned by the nazis

Question 11

What is the name of the main instrument in track 11, Maultrommelmusi Mayr

Answer 11

Jaw Harp

Question 12

what is ‘yootz’

Answer 12

the local name for the traditional swedish yodel

Question 13

What are the main vowel positions of the high and low parts of a yodel?

Answer 13

The chest voice used vowel ‘o’, head voice uses vowel ‘u’

Question 14

what are some of the key restrictions by the swiss yodeler union?

Answer 14

the Swiss yodeler union does not allow altered 3rds and 7ths, nor glottal stop at the end of a phrase.

Question 15

How many languages are indigenous to mexico?

Answer 15

286

Question 16

What is the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia

Answer 16

A Mexican anthropology and history organization that has published 76 albums of Mexican music

Question 17

What are the main instruments of Mariachi ensembles?

Answer 17

voice, violin, trumpet, harp, guitarron, vihuela, and guitar.

Question 18

Who are Mariachi Coculense?

Answer 18

the first mariachi to appear in a sound film, santa (1931)

Question 19

What areas are considered Oceania?

Answer 19

Australia, melanesia, micronesia, and polynesia

Question 20

Where does the song “bushfire” come from?

Answer 20

Northern Australia

Question 21

Where does the sonf ‘Ravi’ come from?

Answer 21

Melanesia, the Island of New Guinea, the country of papua New Guinea

Question 22

What traditions inspired “Pule No Malia.”

Answer 22

Traditional hawaiian and eurogenetic art music

Question 23

who wrote the music for “Pule No Malia.”

Answer 23

Daniel Ho

Question 24

Where is ‘Kai e titirou e matie’ from?

Answer 24

the country of kiribati in micronesia.

Question 25

What is the typical structure for a man Irish reel?

Answer 25

A (abac) B (dedc)

Question 26

What Instruments are typically used in Irish music?

Answer 26

fiddle, flute, accordion, concertina, uilleann pipes, guitar, banjo, bodhran.

Question 27

What are the three historic cultures of scottland?

Answer 27

Gaelic, Anglo-scottish, norse

Question 28

What is the oldest scottish culture?

Answer 28

Gaelic

Question 29

What is a waulking song?

Answer 29

a song sung by women beating tweed soaked in urine as a drum

Question 30

What is the Saami region?

Answer 30

A cultural region in northern europe that spans Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia

Question 31

How many Saami languages are there

Answer 31

10

Question 32

What is the estonian song celebration

Answer 32

a festival of folk music that draws 30,000 singers and 70,000 folk singers

Question 33

What country is the island Sardinia part of? what is its language?

Answer 33

Italy, Sardinian

Question 34

What is the confraternia (brotherhood)

Answer 34

lay associations in sardinia that have personal development as their main aim. This is developed in two ways: through devotional acts and through charitable social service. They provide formal singing for religious feasts and funeral rites.

Question 35

What is holy week

Answer 35

the week before easter in the christian calender

Question 36

What is quintina

Answer 36

fifth voice in sardinia; actually an overtone produced from only four singers

Question 37

Luigi Nono

Answer 37

The italian avante guard composer that wrote the opera promete

Question 38

Timbre

Answer 38

the tone quality of a sound, largely determined by the relative amplitudes of its harmonics.

Question 39

Fourier analysis

Answer 39

the process of decomposing a musical instrument sound or any other periodic function into its constituent sine or cosine waves. It shows the amplitudes (loudness) of the individual harmonics of a sound.

Question 40

Harmonic series

Answer 40

adds the fundamental frequency to each successive harmonic.

Question 41

First eight harmonics

Answer 41

C, C2, G, C3, E, G2, Bb, C4.

Question 42

Who was Josquin des Prez

Question 43

rembetiko

Answer 43

a form of popular, urban music in Greece and its diasporas; associated with the expulsion of Greeks from Turkey

Question 44

ganga

Answer 44

polyphonic singing style that uses harmonies of seconds (rather than thirds).

Question 45

additive meter

Answer 45

meter created by adding together two, three, or four short groupings of beats.

Question 46

kobzar

Answer 46

an itinerant, Ukrainian bard, often blind, who sang to his own accompaniment, played on a multi-stringed bandura or kobza.

Question 47

bandura (kobza)

Answer 47

Ukrainian plucked-string instrument. It previously had 5-7 strings stretched along a slender neck (like a lute). Over the last 150 years it has been enhanced and developed. It can have as many as 68 strings stretched flat across the body of the instrument (like a zither).

Question 48

Eurovision Song Contest

Answer 48

an international songwriting competition organized annually by the European Broadcasting Union, featuring participants representing primarily European countries, and now also includes Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, and Israel. Ukraine won the contest in 2004, 2016, and 2022.

Question 49

Who are the roma

Question 50

How many languages in russia

Answer 50

118, 102 living indigenous languages, and 16 non indigenous

Question 51

balalaika

Answer 51

triangle-shaped, fretted, plucked lute from Russia.