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