Music

Question 1

A story, usually in poetic form, that uses its music for its telling

Answer 1

Ballad

Question 2

Characteristics of a ballad

Answer 2

1. Lots of stanzas
2. Form is strophic
3. Melody is based on a pentatonic scale
4. Ballad text 1 and 3 contain 8 syllables and lines 2 and 4 contain 6 syllables

Question 3

The three types of ballads

Answer 3

1. Imported ballad (brought to America and not changed)
2. Naturalized ballad (brought to America, but the text is modified to make it sound more American)
3. Native ballad (both the music and text are new)

Question 4

Two methods of music transmission

Answer 4

1. Oral transmission
2. Broadside (had text from the music)

Question 5

Fiddle tunes are used for

Answer 5

1. Used for dancing
2. Accompanied by a small ensemble with the fiddle as the primary instrument
3. Usually no text

Question 6

Play party songs originally

Answer 6

1. Did not have instrumentals
2. Was only sung
3. Included body percussion

Question 7

Play party songs originally

Answer 7

1. Did not have instrumentals
2. Was only sung
3. Included body percussion

Question 8

Where large plantains were located

Answer 8

Parts of Louisiana
Islands near modern day Georgia and South Carolina
Carribbean islands
North and east coats of South America

Question 9

Characteristics of native African music

Answer 9

Use of percussion was important
Rhythms were complex and diverse
There was a steady beat
Melodies often used pentatonic scale
Vocal phrases were short and sung in the slaves native language
Texture was monophonic

Question 10

Spirituals characteristics

Answer 10

1. These songs grew directly out of excruciating pain and unbound desire to break the chains of dehumanizing system of slavery
2. Text was often coded representing hope, freedom, sorrow, moaning, and cries of the oppressed slaves

Question 11

Main rhythmic characteristic of a spiritual is

Answer 11

A strong steady beat with clapping on the offbeat

Question 12

Form of spirituals

Answer 12

Call and response

Question 13

Texture of a spiritual

Answer 13

Monophonic

Question 14

Jubilee singers of Fisk university only sang for black people in the south

Answer 14

False (they did tours around the world)

Question 15

Many of the jubilee singers who attended Fisk university after the civil war were slaves

Answer 15

True

Question 16

A concert spiritual is often a written down arrangement using piano accompaniment

Answer 16

True

Question 17

A concert spiritual is often a written down arrangement using piano accompaniment

Answer 17

True

Question 18

The meter of most spirituals is

Answer 18

Duple

Question 19

Sacred =

Answer 19

God, bible, religion

Question 20

Calls cries and hollers

Answer 20

Songs that are an emotional venting of a slaves personal feelings

Question 21

Work songs and ballads

Answer 21

Songs that go along with physical labor

Question 22

Cultural genocide

Answer 22

The systematic destruction of a way of life

Question 23

The six distinctive regions of musical styles

Answer 23

Plains
Southwest
Northwest coast
Great Basin and plateau
Eastern woodlands
California

Question 24

American Indian singing often uses

Answer 24

Vocables

Question 25

American Indians use —— as percussion instruments —— are often attached to the Indians regalia

Answer 25

Drums, rattles and bells

Question 26

Indian songs were not created to be listened to ——

Answer 26

Passively

Question 27

Trail of tears

Answer 27

1830 congress passed the Indian removal act, which forced Indians tribes to never located in Indian territory

Question 28

The ghost dance

Answer 28

A spiritual movement that came about in the late 1880s when conditions were bad on Indian reservations and native Americans needed something’s to give them hope

Question 29

Music of American Indians is

Answer 29

Used for a specific outcomes

Question 30

When an American Indian song is past to the next generation

Answer 30

Must be learned as taught The teacher will die soon Several versions of the song will appear

Question 31

Types of early American Indian music included songs to heal the sick and for a successful harvest

Answer 31

True

Question 32

The texture of songs of purpose

Answer 32

Monophonic

Question 33

Instruments most often used in American Indian music are

Answer 33

Drums, rattles, and ornaments on clothing

Question 34

Sacred examples

Answer 34

Albado Processional drama

Question 35

Vihuela

Answer 35

A member of the guitar family. Smaller than a standard guitar

Question 36

Guitarron

Answer 36

A guitar like instrument with a largest, thick body, a short neck and 6 strings. Functions as a bass

Question 37

Timbal or timbales

Answer 37

A shallow, single-headed drum with metal casing. Usually used in sets of two, three or four with each drum tuned to a different pitch.

Question 38

The four main genre of secular Latinx music

Answer 38

Mexican folk music Son jalisciense Corrido Cancion

Question 39

Caribbean and South America had dances such as

Answer 39

Tango Rumba Samba Mambo Salsa

Question 40

Clave rhythm

Answer 40

Dances that used a combination of 3 long notes and two short notes

Question 41

Tito Puentes

Answer 41

Is given credit for making the Caribbean Latinx music genre popular on the mainland of America

Question 42

Modern genres found in Louisiana

Answer 42

Cajun

Question 43

Zydeco

Answer 43

Accordion instrument. Usually includes a frottoir in the rhythm section

Question 44

Most music from Scandinavia is accompanied by the —— which has eight strings instead of the four on a normal violin

Answer 44

Hardanger fiddle

Question 45

Arab immigrants can to usa between 1870 and 1925 and again from 1965 to present They settled in large urban areas : Los Angeles New York City and the Detroit area; mostly in Dearborn MI Immigrants brought their native instruments with them

Answer 45

2

Question 46

The gamelan was created by

Answer 46

Sang Hyang Guru

Question 47

Most popular types of gamelan

Answer 47

Balinese and javanese

Question 48

The bonanza is very important for the melody in many pieces of Gamelan music

Answer 48

:3

Question 49

Gender is played with two hands each holding a mallet with a padded disk shaped head.

Answer 49

;3

Question 50

The three instruments in the Saron family

Answer 50

The dumung (largest and lowest) Saron barung (smaller than the deeming) Peking (small)

Question 51

Gong suwuk

Answer 51

Large gongs of definite pitch

Question 52

Nobuko Miyamoto

Answer 52

Songwriter dance and theater artist; one of the main catalysts of the music of japan

Question 53

Fred ho

Answer 53

Mixed jazz, Chinese instruments, Chinese stories, and martial arts into his music for the theatre