mus 20r online lecture questions

Question 1

the term “psychoacoustics” is related to which musical domain? metal, social, or perceptual

Answer 1

perceptual

Question 2

what is ethnomusicology?

Answer 2

how and why humans are musical

Question 3

what is music?

Answer 3

humanly organized sound outside the scope of language intended for musical purpose or the perception of patterns

Question 4

true or false: defining music only in terms of sound runs the risk of ethnocentrism and of missing the inextricable relationship sound often has to movement, behavior, and ritual among other things.

Answer 4

true

Question 5

what are the abc’s of music study

Answer 5

a - abstraction (object)
b - behavior (verb)
c - capacity (ability)

Question 6

in the abc’s of music study the term “musicality” corresponds with: capacity, abstraction, or none of the above

Answer 6

capacity

Question 7

true or false: the golden record only had music on it

Answer 7

false