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