MUS006 Quiz 1

Question 1

Organology is:

Accepted Answer

The study of musical instruments

Question 2

"Vocables" are syllables that lack meaning. They appear in both Afro-Cuban & North American Indigenous musics.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 3

What genre of Cuban music is this?

Accepted Answer

Salsa

Question 4

Is "Road Warrior" an example of Northern or Southern style powwow?

Accepted Answer

Southern

Question 5

What is the most popular style of rumba?

Accepted Answer

Guaguancó

Question 6

What music technique you can hear in this song, "La plegaria del son"?

Accepted Answer

Syncopation

Question 7

How are instruments classified under the Chinese Ba Yin classification system?

Accepted Answer

The natural materials the instruments are made of

Question 8

What famous group wrote this song, which founded the narcocorrido genre?

Accepted Answer

Los Tigres del Norte

Question 9

What is ethnographic fieldwork?

Accepted Answer

research based on participant-observation and interviews

Question 10

Which of the following is NOT a Cuban genre?

Accepted Answer

Corrido

Question 11

Which of the following is NOT a batá drum?

Accepted Answer

Chékere (one who shakes)

Question 12

Is the song "Yeye Ochun" played in a sacred or secular context?

Accepted Answer

Sacred

Question 13

Harawi originated in what is now:

Accepted Answer

Peru

Question 14

Aural transmission refers to...

Accepted Answer

learning information by listening

Question 15

What is mestizaje?

Accepted Answer

the process of racial and cultural blending in Latin America

Question 16

Siku is an instrument played during which season?

Accepted Answer

Dry season

Question 17

The solo singing at the beginning of "Facebook Drama" is called the

Accepted Answer

push up

Question 18

What do you call the musical texture where everyone sings the same melody; in "one voice"?

Accepted Answer

Monophony

Question 19

What does timbre mean?

Accepted Answer

the aesthetic/sonic quality of a sound

Question 20

Which of the following is INCORRECT about hocket in sikuri?

Accepted Answer

It is played between wind and string instruments

Question 21

Harawi, is performed for

Accepted Answer

All of the Above

Question 22

Which of the following is a common aesthetic in Andean music?

Accepted Answer

Open form or frequent repetition

Question 23

Which instrument is an example of an idiophone?

Accepted Answer

Claves

Question 24

Which term refers to the organization of sounds/durations in time?

Accepted Answer

Rhythm

Question 25

The genre of this song is:

Accepted Answer

Rumba, guaguancó

Question 26

This sikuri ensemble is performing on which island of ritual signifance?

Accepted Answer

Taquile

Question 27

Which is an Afro-Cuban syncretic religion?

Accepted Answer

Santería

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