Music Appreciation Study Guide
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Course Introduction
Music Appreciation is an introductory course designed to deepen students' understanding and enjoyment of music by exploring its various elements, historical periods, forms, and cultural contexts. Through listening, analysis, and discussion, students will learn to identify musical styles, instruments, and composers from different eras and genres, spanning classical, jazz, popular, and world music. The course fosters critical listening skills, broadens musical tastes, and encourages informed responses to musics role in society, helping students develop a lifelong appreciation for the art form.
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Soundscapes Exploring Music in a Changing World 3rd Edition by Kay Kaufman
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Chapter 1: Sound: The Materials of Music
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Q1) Vibrato occurs when a voice or instrument sustains a pitch without alteration.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) In the Sachs-Hornbostel classification system,a harp and a sitar would be classified as ________.
Answer: Chordophones
Q3) Sounds seem high or low to us because of their:
A)quality.
B)intensity.
C)duration.
D)pitch.
E)texture.
Answer: D
Q4) Like speech,melodies may be divided into ________ that allow a singer to breathe or a player to pause.
Answer: Phrases
Q5) In the Sachs-Hornbostel system,a synthesizer and an electric guitar would be classified as ________.
Answer: Electrophones
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Chapter 2: Setting: The Study of Local Musics
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Q1) In the Indian film industry,Lata Mangeshkar and her sisters were among the most famous ________ ________ who sang the songs that on-screen actors lip-synched.
Answer: Playback singers
Q2) Music in three-part,or ________,form consists of three sections (A B A).
Answer: Ternary
Q3) What are affinity communities?
A)Funeral associations formed in Accra by the Ewe people
B)Immigrant groups formed to protest ethnic discrimination
C)Groups of people who come together to participate in particular forms of musicmaking
D)Lineages of well-known singers in the Portuguese fado tradition
E)Devotees of the deity Ganesh in India and the Indian diaspora
Answer: C
Q4) The tremolo technique is used on a bowed string instrument by shaking the bow back and forth.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Significance: Musics Meaning in Everyday Life
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Q1) A pibroch like Lament for Mary MacLeod uses which of the following forms?
A)Ternary
B)Strophic
C)Strophic with refrain
D)Verse and chorus
E)Ground and variations
Answer: E
Q2) Music most often conveys meaning by:
A)imitating other sounds,such as sounds of nature.
B)association with another phenomenon,such as an idea.
C)speaking,like a language,to communicate very specific meanings.
D)functioning as a universal language to evoke shared emotions across cultures.
E)the distribution of explanatory texts during performances,such as program notes. Answer: B
Q3) In Latino communities,a quinceañera is a celebration to mark the passage of teenage girls into adulthood.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Music and Migration
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Q1) African American spirituals were transformed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries under the influence of the Western classical music style of the dominant American society.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The mawwal Standing on the Shore alternates between refrains in duple meter and interludes in:
A)free rhythm.
B)duple meter.
C)triple meter.
D)quadruple meter.
E)None of the above
Q3) The principal plucked chordophone in the Arab world is the: A)tanpura.
B)violin.
C)sitar.
D)'ud.
E)ho.
Q4) How have oral and written transmission affected the performance of African American spirituals?
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Chapter 5: Music and Memory
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Q1) Pizmonim with Hebrew texts are typically performed in all of the following settings
EXCEPT:
A)prayer services.
B)social gatherings.
C)celebrations of life-cycle occasions.
D)an afternoon Sebet.
E)an evening haflah.
Q2) Attah El Kabbir (You,God,Are Mighty)is a ________,which is a hymn with a Hebrew text set to a preexisting melody.
Q3) How does a jazz funeral use several different types or genres of music to commemorate the deceased person in both a solemn and celebratory way?
Q4) In Arab music,a mode or scale is called a ________.
Q5) Pizmonim are performed unaccompanied at a Sebet because Jewish law prohibits playing instruments on the Sabbath.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Using several corridos mentioned in this chapter as examples,explain how music can transmit detailed memories of people,places,and events.
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Chapter 6: Music,mobility,and the Global Marketplace
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Q1) Which of the following statements about the rendition of Mido Mountain featured in the Listening Guide is true?
A)It is a new composition written collaboratively by Wu Man and Yo-Yo Ma.
B)It adapts a Chinese folk song to the Western major scale.
C)It is performed in English to appeal to Western audiences.
D)It combines Western,Chinese,and North Indian instruments.
E)It uses simple melodies,rhythms,and textures to appeal to different audiences.
Q2) Beginning in the nineteenth century,________ exhibitions enabled observers to walk into and interact with reproductions of daily life in various cultures,including music.
Q3) The sphere of musical interaction that occurs when subcultures influence each other is called the ________.
Q4) An ________ ________ choir is a choir that performs with no instrumental accompaniment.
Q5) Overtones produced on the steel guitar
A)impresario
B)arpeggio
C)palm harmonics
D)tremolo
E)glissando
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Chapter 7: Music and Dance
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Q1) As heard in Rei Zumbi dos Palmares,Angola-style capoeira music may include a ladainha in which:
A)the leader sings about the historical significance of the capoeira.
B)the leader and the chorus alternate in a call-and-response pattern.
C)the singers form two choirs that take turns singing.
D)the chorus members join hands in solidarity.
E)the chorus members bow their heads and raise their hands to heaven.
Q2) As heard in Rei Zumbi dos Palmares,what role does the berimbau gunga play in Angola-style capoeira music?
A)It plays the even beats of the toque.
B)It plays the melody in a middle range.
C)It responds to the lead vocalist's calls.
D)It loudly sounds the Angola toque in a low range.
E)It plays high-pitched syncopated elaborations of the toque.
Q3) Which of the following is NOT a musical instrument used in capoeira performance?
A)The berimbau
B)The berimbau gunga
C)The berimbau médio
D)The berimbau viola
E)The berimbau basso
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Chapter 8: Music and Ritual
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Q1) Which of the following statements about how music relates to the ritual stages in a jazz funeral is NOT true?
A)The music clearly marks the different ritual stages.
B)The snare drum roll marks the initiation stage.
C)The slow hymn played during the procession to the cemetery marks the separation stage.
D)The music's absence during interment marks the transition stage.
E)The celebratory music played during the procession from the cemetery marks the incorporation stage.
Q2) The Mahakala ritual chant in the Listening Guide is an example of what type of vocal performance?
A)Overtone singing
B)Biphonic singing
C)The Tantra voice
D)The mdzo voice
E)All of the above
Q3) How have diaspora Ethiopians creatively addressed challenges to their Christian faith and religious practices in North America?
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Chapter 9: Music and Politics
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Q1) Which of the following statements about dancehall reggae is NOT true?
A)It is also called ska.
B)It emerged in 1983.
C)Its lyrics focus on relationships.
D)Its beats are created by synthesizers.
E)Its texts deemphasize Rastafarianism.
Q2) A reggae riddim
A)nduah
B)Wolf Dance
C)mento
D)Shawl Dance
E)cordiroy
Q3) Get Up,Stand Up is an example of reggae's heavy reliance on syncopated rhythms.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A ________ ________ is a song that expresses national loyalty or patriotism.
Q5) Reggae and its religious symbols have been adapted by American and Trinidadian evangelical Protestant musicians to create a new style called gospel reggae.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Music and Identity
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Q1) If you sang the Happy Birthday melody backwards,from the end to the beginning,you would be singing the melody's ________.
Q2) The fais-dodo is a:
A)grand ball in Creole society.
B)Cajun grand ball,and also the building in which it is held.
C)Cajun variant of the two-step.
D)nostalgic Creole ballad.
E)small Cajun accordion.
Q3) A pattern played during a gap between sections of music
A)wenren
B)fill
C)shadow
D)frottoir
E)pick-up
Q4) China's Cultural Revolution affected Chinese music between 1966 and 1976 by:
A)developing an entirely new set of musical genres.
B)encouraging greater influence of Western musical styles.
C)limiting the range of genres that were performed and composed.
D)broadening the range of genres that were performed and composed.
E)promoting the performance of many traditional Chinese musical genres.
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Chapter 11: Epilogue
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Q1) Which of the following statements about music in the twenty-first century is true?
A)Music in this century has great diversity.
B)Soundscapes have become more static than they were in the past.
C)Soundscapes tend to interact less than they did in the past.
D)Western popular music has become the dominant tradition.
E)Setting no longer plays an important role in music's meaning.
Q2) New musical interactions and collaborations are occurring in the twenty-first century because of contact between soundscapes.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Vietnamese karaoke tango A Tango for You is an example of how a musical composition can relate to:
A)dance.
B)memory.
C)identity.
D)migration.
E)All of the above
Q4) A Tango for You uses A B A form,a common musical form also called ________ form.
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Chapter 12: Introduction: What Is a Soundscape
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Q1) Tuvan throat singing that produces two tones at the same time is called:
A)igil.
B)erhu.
C)khoomii.
D)carillon.
E)didjeridu.
Q2) The purpose of applied ethnomusicology is to:
A)help universities generate profit.
B)enhance the welfare of a community.
C)extend research into the private sector.
D)prepare a researcher for initial fieldwork.
E)increase public interest in traditional ethnography.
Q3) A soundmark identifies a particular:
A)person.
B)place.
C)time.
D)person and place.
E)place and time.
Q4) Ethnomusicology is a field that combines the study of music with the concerns and methods of ________.
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