musc quiz 1

Question 1

Paul Simon released his album Buena Vista Social Club in 1986, this album collaborated with a number of South African musicians.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

A Capella
is singing without musical accompaniment

Answer 2

true

Question 3

polyphony
is a music type made up of several distinct lines that play simultaneously together.

Answer 3

true

Question 4

mbube
is a popular a capella singing tradition from south africa

Answer 4

true

Question 5

vaporwave
is an online microgenre of music that emerged in the early 2010s

Answer 5

true

Question 6

named after an Eminem song, a fandom refers to a “stalker” or obsessed fan

Answer 6

false

Question 7

pitch
is a sound associate with a particular frequency (hertz)

Answer 7

true

Question 8

happy birthday is a popular melody

Answer 8

true

Question 9

the aspect of music relating to degrees of loudness

Answer 9

dynamics

Question 10

___ is the speed at which a song is performed

Answer 10

tempo

Question 11

_____ is a coherent succession of notes that have an organized and recognizable sound pattern.

Answer 11

melody

Question 12

a form of recorded background music played in public spaces (hotels, shopping malls); referred to as elevator music

Answer 12

muzak

Question 13

who was the singer, actor, civil rights activist exiled from south Africa due to their stance against apartheid?

Answer 13

miriam makeba

Question 14

which is not a characteristic (sonic/visual) of VAPORWAVE?

Answer 14

attending a live concert of your fav. vaporwave concert - they don’t have concerts

Question 15

___ is the distance between two notes

Answer 15

interval

Question 16

which is not an example of timbre?

Answer 16

nice

Question 17

when the melody of a song actually reflects the meaning of the words

Answer 17

word painting

Question 18

that sounding of the same note by two or more musicians or singers at the same time

Answer 18

unison

Question 19

Ladysmith black Mambazo specializes in what singing tradition from south Africa?

Answer 19

mbube

Question 20

which is not a criticism faced by Paul Simon and the Graceland album.

Answer 20

he brought light to the atrocities of apartheid in south Africa

Question 21

the study of music in its social and cultural context; this discipline examines music as a social process to understand not only what music is but what it means to a practitioners and audiences

Answer 21

ethnomusicology

Question 22

a person who has a “positive, personal, relatively deep emotional connection with an artists or a brand”

Answer 22

fan

Question 23

a symbol or visual representation of a musical sound

Answer 23

note

Question 24

an example of a Schizophonic performance

Answer 24

playing guitar hero, it requires a person to play with a virtual instrument

Question 25

positive about world music industry

Answer 25

allows an artist to create music that expresses themselves, their culture and craft

Question 26

superfan

Answer 26

someone who is more invested in an artist than the average person (buys merch, goes to shows, follows them on social media)

Question 27

negative about music industry

Answer 27

some record labels will try to control their artist and force them to confine to a specific niche/aesthetic.