Music 1050 Midterm Review

Soundscapes are:

Most twentieth-century ethnomusicologists studied:

What three main things does a soundscape include?

Tuvan throat singing that produces two tones at the same times is called:

The tone that we perceive as the frequency or basic pitch of an instrument's sound is called the:

The tones that ascend in a series above the fundamental tone are called:

Different instruments have different tone qualities because of the presence and relative strength of

The partials that a khoomii singer projects above the fundamental tone are also known as

The setting of a soundscape includes the:

Which of the following is NOT a common way that musicians adapt a performance to a new setting?

The quality of a musical sound results from the:

According to the Sachs-Hornbostel system of classifying musical instruments, gongs and cymbals are called:

The sitar is and example of a(n):

According to the Sachs-Hornbostel system, flutes and horns are called:

The distance between the lowest and highest pitches that can be sung by a voice or played by an instrument is called:

A set of pitches arranged in order of ascent and descent is called a(n):

A melody that moves stepwise using small intervals is best described as:

Marches are examples of music that uses:

The musical structure in which each verse or strophe of text is sung to the same melody is called:

A recurring stanza of text and music that separates verses of a strophic song is called a:

In a worship service for the Hindu deity Ganesh, when and why is an Aarati performed?

The pennywhistle would usually be used to perform a(n):

The Portuguese musical form called fado is often performed to express:

The dominant sound of the Balinese gamelan is created by:

Which of the following statements about fold music revivals is true?

The Indian system for organizing melodies according to their pitch content and their associations is called:

In which of the following Indian settings is raga nilambari used to convey the concept of sleep?

In songs like Amba Nilambari, the tanpura is used to:

Mariachi music originated:

The small strummed folk guitar of the mariachi ensemble is called a:

The large, plucked bass guitar of the mariachi ensemble is called a:

On the Scottish Highland bagpipe, the player blows directly into the:

The most appropriate genre of bagpipe music for a funeral is a:

A march like Scotlan the Brave can be distinguished from a pibroch by its:

Didjeridoo

Erhu

Timbre

Harmonics

Khoomi

Register

The migration of many people to North and South America in search of new religious and economic opportunities is best described as:

The song Happy Birthday is an example of what type of text setting?

The principal plucked chordophone in the Arab world is the

Forced migration may occur because of all the following factors EXCEPT

Which of the following was a highly influential musical repertory that formed as African American slaves were converted to New World Christianity?

If you sang a line of an African American spiritual alone and the rest of your class answered you as a chorus, you would be performing in which of the following styles?

Early American folk singers like Huddie Leadbetter primarily learned African American spirituals through:

Because Come to Hue, Come lacks a regular pulse, the vocal melody is performed in

Because Come to Hue, Come lacks a regular pulse, the vocal melody is performed in

A ballad, such as the Mexican corrido, usually does NOT:

Which of the following types of music is NOT typically performed in the first half of a jazz funeral?

Which of the following is a sacred song used for worship?

Which instrument plays an important role in signaling transitional moments in a jazz funeral?

In Arab music, a category of melodies that share pitch content, range, and ornaments is called

Maqam nahawand was especially memorable and attractive to Arab immigrants to the New World because it:

The drum commonly used in the Arab Middle East is called the:

The pizmon Mifalot Elohim (The Works of God) uses:

The jazz funeral emerged from the nineteenth-century New Orleans custom of funeral societies sponsoring funerals, which included music by a brass band.

Before the burial at the cemetery, the band in a jazz funeral plays upbeat songs to set the initial tone of celebration.

Pizmonim are performed unaccompanied at a Sebet because Jewish law prohibits playing instruments on the Sabbath.

Because music often has a strong association with a particular locale, the travel and tourism industries use music to:

A player often deliberately creates which characteristic sound of the Hawaiian steel guitar?

Which of the following factors did NOT contribute to the ukulele’s popularity in the twentieth century?

The song Samoan Moon includes all the following musical features that are strongly associated with Hawaii EXCEPT:

Which of the following statements about gamelan gong kebyar is true?

Which of the following phenomena was NOT a result of tourism’s influence on Balinese gamelan in the early twentieth century?

Which of the following statements about the musical genre called kecak is true?

Evan Ziporyn and I Nyoman Windha collaborated to create Kekembangan, a new composition for gamelan that:

Which of the following statements about the rendition of Mido Mountain performed by the Silk Road Ensemble is true?

The corrido Gregorio Cortez is an example of a ________ corrido, which portrays larger-than-life figures.

During the street procession from the cemetery in a jazz funeral, additional people form the ________, which follows behind the band and mourners.

A song that is created by writing new lyrics to a preexisting melody is called a ________.

Attah El Kabbir (You, God, Are Mighty) is a ________, which is a Jewish hymn with a Hebrew text set to a preexisting melody.

In the musical genre kecak, a male chorus representing an army of monkeys performs interlocking vocal parts chanting what syllable?

The sphere of musical interaction that occurs when subcultures influence each other is called the ________.

Immigrant communities living outside their ancestral homelands are often called ________ communities, from a Greek word meaning “dispersion.”

Beginning in the seventeenth century, British immigrants to North America brought with them ________, which are strophic songs that tell a story.

A ________ mode or scale, based on five pitches, is commonly used in Vietnamese songs, such as lullabies.