Chapter 2: Music as Culture

Question 1

Audience participation is encouraged in Classical music

Accepted Answer

False

Question 2

Traditional music is often performed by non-professionals

Accepted Answer

True

Question 3

Which of these is NOT an instrument used in sones jarochos?

Accepted Answer

trumpet

Question 4

What's interesting about Mozart's requiem?

Accepted Answer

He died while writing it

Question 5

Popular music is completely separate from Traditional music

Accepted Answer

False

Question 6

Mozart wrote his first opera at the age of...

Accepted Answer

11

Question 7

Classical music for small ensembles is called...

Accepted Answer

Chamber Music

Question 8

Do we know what ancient music sounds like?

Accepted Answer

No, they didn't write it down

Question 9

Which best describes Mexican Traditional music?

Accepted Answer

The mixing of Aztec and Spanish music

Question 10

Sones jarochos is defined by...

Accepted Answer

its instrumentation

Question 11

Which of these countries has a strong Classical music tradition that we studied in class?

Accepted Answer

India

Question 12

Ethnomusicologists study...

Accepted Answer

the music of different cultural groups

Question 13

Gamelan uses...

Accepted Answer

a 5-note scale

Question 14

Which of these is NOT a common characteristic shared across all music?

Accepted Answer

Instruments

Question 15

That bone flute is how many years old?

Accepted Answer

35,000

Question 16

An instrument that produces sound through vibrating strings

Accepted Answer

Chordophone

Question 17

Idiophones have a skin stretched around a resonating body in order to produce sound

Accepted Answer

False

Question 18

Which of these is NOT an aerophone?

Accepted Answer

Cello

Question 19

Which of these is NOT a category of music we studied?

Accepted Answer

Contemporary Music

Question 20

The oldest known musical artifact is a...

Accepted Answer

bone flute

Questions 20