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