Indigenous Music

Question 1

What best describes the style of music from Indigenous American culture?

Accepted Answer

Folk Music

Question 2

What is contemporary music?

Accepted Answer

Modern music; Music of the present day

Question 3

What was the most important musical element to Indigenous melodies?

Accepted Answer

Pentatonic Scale

Question 4

What STARTED the popular trend of using the pentatonic scale that the Indigenous Americans created?

Accepted Answer

Classical symphonies (New World Symphony)

Question 5

Which is NOT a way that the indigenous people used music?

Accepted Answer

Become Wealthy

Question 6

True or False: Indigenous Americans found little value in music.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 7

How long ago did humans begin to settle in the Americas?

Accepted Answer

Over 10,000 years

Question 8

Which instrument family is thought to be the oldest in the world?

Accepted Answer

Percussion

Question 9

What 2 genres of music were influenced most by Indigenous American music?

Accepted Answer

Jazz and Classical

Question 10

True or False: The pentatonic scale evolved and was used in many popular genres of music.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 11

Which two instrument families were most popular with the indigenous Americans?

Accepted Answer

Woodwind and Percussion

Question 12

Who composed the "New World Symphony" in the late 1800s?

Accepted Answer

Antonin Dvorak

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