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CSET Domain 2 Performing Arts Music 2
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Instructions:
Answer 29 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Grouping of beats - comprised of both stressed and unstressed beats
timbre
tempo
meter
homophonic
2. Sounds of different pitches; arranged sequentially
string instruments
classical music
texture
melody
3. The repetitive timing or 'beat' of music (tapping foot)
texture
melody
octave
rhythm
4. Speed or pace of a piece's rhythm Largo - very slow (Key Largo - FL) Allegro - fast Presto - very fast (magician - fast trick)
tempo
homophonic
blues
western styles
5. Commoners passed down orally
blues
rhythm
folk
tempo
6. Mozart - Beethoven
classical music
harmony
rhythm
string instruments
7. Multiple voices - one leading - others form background accompaniment (barer shop)
western styles
monophonic
melody
homophonic
8. Multiple voices performing same melodic line with slight variations (blue grass - Asian - no harmony)
polyphonic
string instruments
folk
heterophonic
9. Distinct american style - originated in the South - started by African Americans - prominent meter - improvisational (performance add their own made up parts; riffs) - Scott Joplin - Louis Armstrong - Duke Ellington
keyboard
polyphonic
rhythm
Jazz
10. Made of brass blowing into the instrument - lips vibrating - trumpet - trombone - horns - tubas - use your breath to make sounds
heterophonic
monophonic
brass
articulation
11. The way sounds of different pitches are arranged - when arranged outside the accepted rules of order - dissonance is produced
structure
monophonic
harmony
octave
12. Duration for which a note or rest is hels (time value)
timbre
brass
percussion
music notation
13. Piano - pipe organs - harpischords
polyphonic
tempo
keyboard
timbre
14. How a piece of music is arranged sonate - Beethoven fugue - melodic lines
folk
structure
harmony
percussion
15. Main family that makes up the orchestra - violins - violas - cellos - and basses
keyboard
articulation
western styles
string instruments
16. One voice or everyone singing the same melody (Christmas music)
melody
western styles
monophonic
classical music
17. How high or low a note is
melody
timbre
harmony
pitch
18. 1.A series of eight notes occupying the interval between two notes - one having twice or half the frequency of vibration of the other - Western 12 Arab 17 Indian 22
heterophonic
octave
keyboard
microtonal
19. Overall sound quality
chord
texture
classical music
woodwinds
20. The way notes are separated or blended together within a rhythm Staccato - distinct and separated Legato - flowing
blues
monophonic
articulation
polyphonic
21. Softness or loudness of a sound in terms of volume piano - means soft forte - means loud
rhythm
articulation
string instruments
dynamics
22. Folk - jazz - blues - classical
western styles
articulation
string instruments
music notation
23. Modern american came from spiritual - country western and rock derive from the blues
meter
octave
classical music
blues
24. Asian and Middle eastern music small intervals
microtonal
keyboard
timbre
octave
25. Combination of at least 3 different pitches
homophonic
chord
articulation
tempo
26. Unique sound produced by a specific instrument or voice
Jazz
timbre
articulation
octave
27. Instruments that you hit or strike - kettledrums - bells - triangles - cymbals - xylophone
heterophonic
music notation
percussion
keyboard
28. Multiple voices each with an independent melody (pop music - backup singers)
western styles
octave
percussion
polyphonic
29. Blowing into the instrument to make air move - clarinet & obooe use a reed - flute (oldest wind instrument) - blowing air over a hole; makes different notes by opening and closing holes that run along the body - trumpet and trombone
texture
structure
timbre
woodwinds