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