1050 Midterm Review

Vibrato is the regular fluctuation of a sound, created by slightly varying the pitch.

Music can mean different things to different people because their backgrounds may differ.

The sitar heard in Rag Des is an example of a(n):

North Indian music is called Karnatak music.

A group of people singing Happy Birthday is an example of:

A player often deliberately creates which characteristic sound of the Hawaiian steel guitar?

The large, plucked bass guitar of the mariachi ensemble is called a:

The most appropriate genre of bagpipe music for a funeral is a:

Which of the following is NOT a common way that musicians adapt a performance to a new setting?

According to the Sachs-Hornbostel system, flutes and horns are called:

Which of the following is a sacred song used for worship?

If the partials of a clarinet and of a cello were filtered out, the 2 would sound different.

Maqam nahawand was especially memorable to Arab immigrants to the New World because it:

Which of these instruments would be appropriate for playing an Irish American ballad?

The speed or pace of music is called rhythm.

Different instruments have different tone qualities because of the presence and strength of:

Ziporyn and Windha collaborated to create Kekembangan, a new composition for gamelan that:

Music for a waltz is set in quadruple meter.

Soundscapes are:

The National Road traces the composer’s experiences as an immigrant in his new homeland.

The Sachs-Hornbostel system was developed to categorize instruments from around the world.

What three main things does a soundscape include?

In Arab music, a category of melodies that share pitches, range, and ornaments is called a:

According to the Sachs-Hornbostel system, gongs and cymbals are called:

The tones that ascend in a series above the fundamental tone are called:

Music enhances memory because it helps us recall aspects of our life experience.

Which of the following questions is NOT important to ask when considering music’s setting?

The study of musical instruments is called:

Ballads are narrative songs performed to:

People typically follow the same musical pathways throughout their lives.

Which of the following is NOT typically performed in the 1st half of a jazz funeral?

Ethnomusicology is a field that combines the study of music with the concerns and methods of:

20th-century folksingers like Huddie Ledbetter were able to learn spirituals through:

A soundmark of a particular place, like a New York street corner, remains similar over time.

Forced migration may occur because of all the following factors EXCEPT:

Pizmonim with Hebrew texts are typically performed in all of the following settings EXCEPT:

A quinceañera is a celebration to mark the passage of teen girls into adulthood.

In kecak, a chorus representing monkeys performs interlocking parts on the syllable “cak.”

Which of these types of music is often written and composed to transmit specific memories?

The quality of a musical sound results from the:

The tone that we perceive as the basic pitch of an instrument’s sound is called the:

The distance between the lowest and highest pitches that can be sung or played is called:

Some music has free rhythm because it is organized around a regular pulse or beat.

Creating an accent on an unexpected beat is called syncopation.

The Indian system for organizing melodies acc. to pitch content and associations is called:

Many features of the song Come to Hue, Come are adapted from a Vietnamese:

A raga can convey meaning by being associated with a time of day, a season, or an emotion.

In which of the following ways does music in raga nilambari convey a particular meaning?

We perceive a high tone and a low tone to differ in pitch because of a difference in the:

The small, strummed folk guitar of the mariachi ensemble is called a:

It is easier to apply notions of ownership to musical sound than to a literary text.

Most twentieth-century ethnomusicologists studied:

The setting of a soundscape includes the:

A soundscape setting includes where music is performed and the behavior of the listeners.

Music in a jazz funeral is used to transmit detailed memories about the deceased person.

Samoan Moon includes the following features that are associated with Hawaii EXCEPT:

A melody that moves stepwise using small intervals is best described as:

Musicians may vary the intensity of music depending on the music’s setting and function.

The musical structure where each verse or strophe of text is sung to the same melody is called:

The uilleann pipes, are often used for outdoor performance because of their loud sound.

We can tap our feet to music when it has a regular pulse, known as a:

Most pizmonim borrow their tunes from Jewish songs.

A ballad, such as the Mexican corrido, usually does NOT:

A distinctive pattern of pitches organized into a beginning, middle, and end is called a (n):

Vibrato occurs when a voice or instrument sustains a pitch without alteration.

A march like Scotland the Brave can be distinguished from a pibroch by its:

The song Happy Birthday is an example of what type of text setting?

The term mariachi can refer to one musician, a type of musical ensemble, or a style of music.

Sounds seem loud or soft to us because of their:

The Portuguese musical form called fado is often performed to express:

Music is the deliberate organization of all the following characteristics of sound EXCEPT:

A recurring stanza of text and music that separates verses of a strophic song is called a:

The dominant sound of the Balinese gamelan is created by: