2018 Pentathlon Fine Arts I

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

What is most of African music making based upon?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What is the Dahomey Gap?

What is the estimated population of Africa?

Which of the following does not cause sound vibrations?

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

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

What is the basic building block for melodies and harmonies?

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

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

What is the instrument in the picture?

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

How many pitches occur in a melody?

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

Which African instrument is used to hocket?

What is the language of origin for the word Maghreb?

Geographically, how many macro regions is Africa divded into?

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

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

What kind of rhythm does the picture show?

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

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

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

Musicians used which guiding principles to compose or improvise music?

Where did Christianity begin their spread into the African continent?

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

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

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

Who is the most prominent African musicologist?

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

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

What kind of texture is a barbershop quarter producing?

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

What is the instrument pictured?

What geographic region stretches across the breath of Africa?

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

What language family does Wolof belong to?

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

Which is the largest African language family?

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

What is a calabash used for?

How do terminology in African languages judge music?

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

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

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

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

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

What vibrates in a chordophones?

Where is the Zambezi river located?

Where are lutes not typically found?

Which chorodophone has a uniquely African construction?

What is the instrument in the picture?

What is the name of the pictured instrument

What language family is spoken on the island of Madagascar?

What is a gankogui?

Where is Egypt located in reference to North Africa?

Does the tone of a music pitch ever change?

What causes a barrier to human migration?

What is the organization of pulse and beats called?

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

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

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

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

What are climate zones based upon?

Which country does the equator not cut through?

What is a collection of tones?

What caused musical styles to mix together?

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

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

How many nations does the contentinvent Africa contain?

What desert does the Tropics of Cancer run through?

All the following are examples of idiophones except:

Which chordophone evolved from “al ‘ud”?

What is the instrument in the photo?

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

How many distinct languages are spoken in Africa?

T/F: African instruments are tuned like guitars.

Where are the Khoisan languages spoken?

What family of instrument is Africa known for?

When was Islam introduced to Africa?

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

Which African lute looks closest to the ancient Egyptian precursor?

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

What is African music almost always based upon?

How do aerophones create sound waves?