2018 Pentathlon Fine Arts I

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

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

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

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

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

Which of the following does not cause sound vibrations?

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

Where did Christianity begin their spread into the African continent?

What geographic region stretches across the breath of Africa?

What is a gankogui?

What kind of rhythm does the picture show?

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

How many nations does the contentinvent Africa contain?

What is most of African music making based upon?

How many distinct languages are spoken in Africa?

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

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

What is the instrument in the picture?

Where is Egypt located in reference to North Africa?

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

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

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

What language family is spoken on the island of Madagascar?

What is the estimated population of Africa?

When was Islam introduced to Africa?

What caused musical styles to mix together?

What is a collection of tones?

What desert does the Tropics of Cancer run through?

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

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

What family of instrument is Africa known for?

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

What is the organization of pulse and beats called?

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

Where is the Zambezi river located?

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

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

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

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

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

What are climate zones based upon?

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

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

What is the instrument in the picture?

What kind of texture is a barbershop quarter producing?

What vibrates in a chordophones?

Where are the Khoisan languages spoken?

What is the language of origin for the word Maghreb?

What is the instrument pictured?

T/F: African instruments are tuned like guitars.

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

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

All the following are examples of idiophones except:

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

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

Which country does the equator not cut through?

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

How many pitches occur in a melody?

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

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

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

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

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

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

What is the name of the pictured instrument

What is the instrument in the photo?

Where are lutes not typically found?

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

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

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

What causes a barrier to human migration?

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

What is the Dahomey Gap?

How do aerophones create sound waves?

Musicians used which guiding principles to compose or improvise music?

Which chorodophone has a uniquely African construction?

Which is the largest African language family?

What is African music almost always based upon?

Who is the most prominent African musicologist?

What is the basic building block for melodies and harmonies?

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

Which African instrument is used to hocket?

What is a calabash used for?

Does the tone of a music pitch ever change?

Geographically, how many macro regions is Africa divded into?

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

How do terminology in African languages judge music?

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

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

Which African lute looks closest to the ancient Egyptian precursor?

What language family does Wolof belong to?

Which chordophone evolved from “al ‘ud”?