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