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