WM9 Unit 2 and 3 Review

Question 1

What section of the steel band contains non-pitched percussion instruments?

Accepted Answer

Frontline pans

Question 2

What is the name of the rhythm used as a tool for temporal organization in the song "Guantanamera?"

Accepted Answer

Clave

Question 3

What instrument was chosen for instruction at the Kwanangoma College of Music?

Accepted Answer

Marimba

Question 4

Where is calypso music typically performed?

Accepted Answer

Carnival

Question 5

Which Senegalese drum is featured in the soundtrack of Black Panther?

Accepted Answer

Tama

Question 6

Which of the following is NOT a purpose of song games in Zimbabwe?

Accepted Answer

To compete against eachother

Question 7

What is the most common song form used in traditional Shona Mbira music?

Accepted Answer

Cyclic form

Question 8

What are calypso songs typically about?

Accepted Answer

Gossip, politics, and censored topics

Question 9

Calypso is a fusion of which two musical traditions?

Accepted Answer

African and French

Question 10

What event led to the popularization of the steel pan drum?

Accepted Answer

Carnival

Question 11

The marimba is pitched in a diatonic C scale with which note added to it?

Accepted Answer

F#

Question 12

What is the name of the highest pitch performed on a Sabar drum?

Accepted Answer

Slap

Question 13

Which drum in Sabar music has an hourglass shape?

Accepted Answer

Tama

Question 14

Which drum in Sabar has 7 pegs that tune the drum?

Accepted Answer

Sabar

Question 15

What role does the background pans play in an ensemble?

Accepted Answer

Bass line

Question 16

What is the most important instrument in Shona music?

Accepted Answer

Mbira

Question 17

Where in Africa does Sabar music originate?

Accepted Answer

Senegal

Question 18

What type of instrument is a Sabar?

Accepted Answer

Membranophone

Question 19

What is the name of the middle pitch on a Sabar drum?

Accepted Answer

Tone

Question 20

Which of the following instruments would NOT be found in an Engine Room?

Accepted Answer

Steel pan

Question 21

The mbira is used to help the Shona communicate with who?

Accepted Answer

The ancestral spirits

Question 22

Which drum in Sabar comes in a set of 3?

Accepted Answer

Dun dun

Question 23

Which African tradition does Calypso music borrow from?

Accepted Answer

Griots

Question 24

What is the name of the historians, story tellers, and musicians in Senegal?

Accepted Answer

Griot

Question 25

What country does the steel pan drum originate from?

Accepted Answer

Trinidad

Question 26

What word is used to describe to or more conflicting rhythms?

Accepted Answer

Polyrhythm

Question 27

What might be used to amplify the sound of an mbira?

Accepted Answer

A gourd

Question 28

What section of the steel band plays the melody?

Accepted Answer

Frontline pans

Question 29

What type of instrument is a steel pan drum?

Accepted Answer

Idiophone

Question 30

What is the ethnic group that Sabar music belongs to?

Accepted Answer

Wolof

Question 31

Which instrument is used as a "telephone to the spirits" in Shona religious ceremonies?

Accepted Answer

Mbira

Question 32

The marimba is what type of instrument?

Accepted Answer

Idiophone

Question 33

What role do the mid-range pans play in the steel band ensemble?

Accepted Answer

Counter-melody / Chords

WM9 Unit 2 and 3 Review

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WM9 Unit 2 and 3 Review

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