2018 Pentathlon Fine Arts I

What language family is spoken on the island of Madagascar?

All the following are examples of idiophones except:

What family of instrument is Africa known for?

Which chorodophone has a uniquely African construction?

True/False: Harmony can have four tones sounding at the same time.

What language family does Wolof belong to?

Which Hornbostel-Sachs classification are most often used to accompany vocals?

Which of the following was not transported across Africa by the rivers?

If an African pitch sounds low, its frequency will measure:

What kind of texture is a barbershop quarter producing?

How many distinct languages are spoken in Africa?

Which of the following materials are not typically used to make African instruments?

What desert does the Tropics of Cancer run through?

How many nations does the contentinvent Africa contain?

Which word means “shore” or “coast” in Arabic?

When was Islam introduced to Africa?

T/F: African musicians can look at a drum and identify which ethnic group it belonged.

T/F: African instruments are tuned like guitars.

T/F: African musicians are well versed in music theory.

T/F: Improvisation are guided by musical models and abstract grammatical rules.

Where did Christianity begin their spread into the African continent?

Which region in Africa has the most amount of musical research?

Which of the following is the name of an African Lyre?

Which African instrument is used to hocket?

What kind of rhythm does the picture show?

What life cycle events led to the creation of musical pieces?

Which category of Hornbostel-Sachs is least likely to be found in Africa?

What is the instrument in the photo?

What is a gankogui?

Where is the Zambezi river located?

Which chordophone evolved from “al ‘ud”?

Where are lutes not typically found?

Which of the following is an example of off-beat phrasing?

What is a collection of tones?

Which is the largest African language family?

T/F: The introduction of Islam and Christianity eradicated music culture.

What is the organization of pulse and beats called?

Musicians used which guiding principles to compose or improvise music?

Geographically, how many macro regions is Africa divded into?

Rhythm is a sequence of events of varying length that overlies:

T/F: The Tropics of Capricorn is north of the equator.

T/F: Only a part of the idiophone vibrates to create sound.

Which of the following is not typically a part of of a harp?

What vibrates in a chordophones?

If the tempo is 20 bpm, how many beats are there per second?

T/F: There is only one way to interpret the meter of a African rhyming cycle.

Where are the Khoisan languages spoken?

What kind of texture is a class singing “happy birthday”?

Which of the following is not an expression of African music:

What is a calabash used for?

T/F: The sonic palate for African musicians can vary greatly.

T/F: Only the eastern and western tips of Africa have a Mediterranean-like temperature climate.

What is African music almost always based upon?

How do aerophones create sound waves?

Which of the following African instrument allows musicians to sing and play along?

T/F: African musicians relied on oral transmissions and transcription to pass on their craft.

Which of the following is not a musical terminology to judge music?

T/F: There is one unified African tuning system.

Which of the following is not a major climate zone of the African desert?

What is the language of origin for the word Maghreb?

Which country does the equator not cut through?

What is the instrument pictured?

What is a single instance of back and forth movement known as?

How many categories of classification are in the Hornhostel-Sachs system?

What is one kind of scale used by African music cultures?

How many pitches occur in a melody?

T/F: It is common to find African musicians practice by playing scales.

Which of the following countries are not in the savanna climate zone?

According to the picture, which line displays a ternary beat?

T/F: Musical instruments are affected by the different climate zones of Africa.

Which of the following is not a way Africa is subdivided?

What is the name of the pictured instrument

Does the tone of a music pitch ever change?

Where is Egypt located in reference to North Africa?

Which of the following does not cause sound vibrations?

Which chordophone is typically found in the Great Lakes region of Eastern Africa?

What is the basic building block for melodies and harmonies?

What geographic region stretches across the breath of Africa?

What caused musical styles to mix together?

What does 440 cycles per second (CPS) sound like?

What is the estimated population of Africa?

Which African lute looks closest to the ancient Egyptian precursor?

What is the instrument in the picture?

How do terminology in African languages judge music?

What is it called when the whole length of a reed vibrates?

Which musical element allows you to categorize the sound difference of a drum from a gourd?

Who is the most prominent African musicologist?

What is most of African music making based upon?

What is the Dahomey Gap?

What are climate zones based upon?

What is the instrument in the picture?

What causes a barrier to human migration?