exam

Question 1

What are the four voices in a choir?

Answer 1

Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass

Question 2

What is the Sitar?

Answer 2

An Indian String intrument

Question 3

What is the Sarangi?

Answer 3

An Indian is a fretless bowed instrument

Question 4

What is the Bansuri?

Answer 4

An Indian Wooden flute

Question 5

What is the Tala?

Answer 5

The tal is a repeating rhythm pattern usually played by the tabla

Question 6

What is a Kora?

Answer 6

An African Harp

Question 7

What wind instruments do they have in Africa?

Answer 7

flutes (often made out of bamboo)
horns and trumpets
reed pipes

Question 8

What other instruments do they have in Africa?

Answer 8

rattles, shakers, gongs and rasps.

Question 9

What is a maraca?

Answer 9

carribean percussion instrument: hand-held shakers

Question 10

What music styles are there in the carribean?

Answer 10

Salsa, Calypso, Mento, Ska, Reggae, Rocksteady, Merengue

Question 11

con sordino

Answer 11

with mute

Question 12

arch-shape form

Answer 12

ABCBA

Question 13

cadenza

Answer 13

an improvised or written-out ornamental passage played or sung by a soloist or soloists, usually in a “free” rhythmic style

Question 14

continuo

Answer 14

an accompanying part which includes a bass line and harmonies, typically played on a keyboard instrument (baroque)

Question 15

da capo aria

Answer 15

is a musical form that was prevalent in the Baroque era. It is sung by a soloist with the accompaniment of instruments, often a small orchestra.

Question 16

cyclic form

Answer 16

musical composition that employs the same theme in several movements

Question 17

ground bass

Answer 17

a short theme, usually in the bass, which is constantly repeated as the other parts of the music vary.

Question 18

minuet & trio

Answer 18

Minuet and Trio form has a special type of compound tenary design (in which each of the sections has its own small form)

Question 19

strophic form

Answer 19

songs in which all verses or stanzas of the text are sung to the same music.

Question 20

scherzo & trio

Answer 20

The term can also refer to a fast-moving humorous composition that may or may not be part of a larger work.

Question 21

double stopping

Answer 21

he technique of playing two notes simultaneously on a bowed stringed instrument

Question 22

name some different types of instrumental ensembles

Answer 22

woodwind quintet (flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon)
string quartet (two violins, viola, and cello)
brass quintet (two trumpets or cornets, one French horn, one trombone, and one tuba)

Question 23

augmentation

Answer 23

doubling note lengths

Question 24

diminution

Answer 24

halfing of note lengths

Question 25

acciaccatura

Answer 25

crushed grace note (off the beat)

Question 26

appoggiatura

Answer 26

grace note (effects the next note)

Question 27

difference between a drone and a pedal?

Answer 27

a drone can be more than one note