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