Music 190W Chapter 8 Quiz

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  1. Which is NOT a reason that the music of Native Americans is typically excluded when people speak of "American music":
    a. it has essential differences from European music
    b. it has a different function
    c. it has different aesthetic principles
    d. it was never recorded
  2. What was the purpose of much Native American music?
    a. purely for entertainment
    b. to prepare for war
    c. most had a ritual purpose, and some was for entertainment

  3. Which is NOT a way new Native American songs came into existence?
    a. composed by a composer
    b. borrowed from other tribes
    c. acquired in dreams or visions
    d. taken from ancient collections of musical notation
  4. How were Native American songs transmitted before recording came into use?
    a. by written notation
    b. by oral tradition
  5. Vocal syllables that do not have a specific meaning but are associated with certain songs are called:
    a. vocables
    b. vocals
    c. recitative
    d. intertribal
  6. Which does not describe the style of Native American songs as described on p. 150:
    a. small range
    b. short phrases
    c. repetition
    d. choral homophonic texture
  7. Which European tradition of folk music is found much more in Canada than in the U.S.:
    a. Irish
    b. German
    c. French
    d. Jamaican

  8. Latin American music is formed from the blending of which national/ethnic heritages?
    a. Spanish and Portuguese
    b. European, African, and Native American
    c. European and African
  9. European classical music was _________ Latin America during its colonial period.
    a. kept out of
    b. performed and taught throughout
  10. The form of music played primarily by black Americans of French heritage is:
    a. boogie-woogie
    b. doo-wop
    c. zydeco
    d. ska
  11. Which is NOT a style of Latino music?
    a. salsa
    b. klezmer
    c. mariachi
    d. conjunto
  12. Salsa draws on the music of which two countries primarily:
    a. Haiti and Trinidad
    b. Trinidad and Jamaica
    c. Cuba and Trinidad
    d. Cuba and Puerto Rico
  13. Which is not a factor in the growth of interest in reggae?
    a. popularity of the film The Harder They Come
    b. the development of the Jamaican music industry
    c. the non-political nature of reggae lyrics
    d. the international stardom of Bob Marley
  14. In South America, music that blends European and indigenous (native) elements, such as musical instruments, is called:
    a. salon music
    b. polkas
    c. aerophones
    d. mestizo
  15. Identify the excerpt:
    a. "Butterfly Dance," Native American
    b. "Collaguas," Aymara from Peru
    c. "Dance of All Beings," Native American/jazz fusion
    d. "Corcovado," Brazilian bossa nova
    e. "Get Up, Stand Up," reggae
    f. "Tu Le Ton Son Ton," zydeco
  16. Identify the excerpt:
    a. "Butterfly Dance," Native American
    b. "Collaguas," Aymara from Peru
    c. "Dance of All Beings," Native American/jazz fusion
    d. "Corcovado," Brazilian bossa nova
    e. "Get Up, Stand Up," reggae
    f. "Tu Le Ton Son Ton," zydeco
  17. Identify the excerpt:
    a. "Butterfly Dance," Native American
    b. "Collaguas," Aymara from Peru
    c. "Dance of All Beings," Native American/jazz fusion
    d. "Corcovado," Brazilian bossa nova
    e. "Get Up, Stand Up," reggae
    f. "Tu Le Ton Son Ton," zydeco
  18. Identify the excerpt:
    a. "Butterfly Dance," Native American
    b. "Collaguas," Aymara from Peru
    c. "Dance of All Beings," Native American/jazz fusion
    d. "Corcovado," Brazilian bossa nova
    e. "Get Up, Stand Up," reggae
    f. "Tu Le Ton Son Ton," zydeco
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  19. Which of these has a sentence fragment problem?
    a.Tito Puente plays timbales and vibraphone. He has recorded hundreds of albums.
    b. Tito Puente has recorded hundreds of records on vibraphone and timbales. He is a major salsa star.
    c. Tito Puente plays vibraphone and timbales. And has recorded hundreds of albums.
  20. Which of these does NOT have a sentence fragment problem?
    a. Brazilian samba. Is performed during Carnaval by hundreds of musicians.
    b. Brazilian samba is performed during Carnaval by hundreds of musicians. It uses a fast duple meter.
    c. Hundreds of musicians play Brazilian samba during Carnaval. Using a variety of small percussion instruments.


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