FINAL

Question 1

True or False: Belly dancers were seen as “good advertisement for Arabic Muslim womanhood.”

Answer 1

FALSE

Question 2

Through the Reda Troupe, there became a strong interest in?

Answer 2

FOLKLORE

Question 3

Who invented the Tabla Solo Dance?

Answer 3

Nagwa Fu’ad

Question 4

True or False: The tabla solo dance is usually performed second to last of the dance programs.

Answer 4

TRUE

Question 5

Which composer incorporated folk, electronic, pop, jazz, funk, latin, and middle east styles?

Answer 5

Emad Sayyah

Question 6

The Earliest known prototypes of the modern Zheng are from around what year, according to archaeological evidence?

Answer 6

5th Century BC

Question 7

T or F . The Chinese Zheng is historically related to several other Asian board zither chordophones, including the Japanese koto, the Korean kayagum, the Mongolian jatag, and the Vietnamese dan tranh.

Answer 7

TRUE

Question 8

What year was first full-fledged zheng curriculum in Chinese music conservatories established?

Answer 8

1950

Question 9

T or F. The Zheng was not a very important instrument for the Chinese Opera and was often neglected in orchestration for these performances.

Answer 9

FALSE

Question 10

What Chinese leader created a more “Open china that allowed the arts to be more free and find influences from the west?”

Answer 10

Deng Xiaoping

Question 11

True or False: 1979 Deng Xiaoping introduces new policy for “open” music throughout china

Answer 11

TRUE

Question 12

What movie did Tan Dun compose for?

Answer 12

Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon

Question 13

Tan Dun is considered a?

Answer 13

Best known New-Wave composer

Question 14

“Music for Muqam” is normally for what instruments?

Answer 14

solo zheng and drum accompaniment

Question 15

Which song is one of the best-known English-Language Irish Songs?

Answer 15

Song for Ireland

Question 16

What are the two main contexts in which Traditional Irish Dance Tunes and Medleys were performed?

Answer 16

Ceili (informal social gathering) and Session (musicians playing older trad. tunes)

Question 17

How are the Uillean Pipes played?

Answer 17

Irish bag pipe; soft dynamic range; played sat down

Question 18

True or False: The Irish independence war ended in a ceasefire.

Answer 18

TRUE

Question 19

Which is NOT one of the five main categories that support the core identity of traditional Irish music?

Answer 19

Sean nos
Slow instrumental (airs)
Songs sung in English
Musical trad. of the Irish Harp
Instrumental dance tunes and melodies

Question 20

Western music was considered superior to Chinese music.

Answer 20

TRUE

Question 21

Throughout Chinese history, music was used solely for _______ purposes.

Answer 21

political purposes

Question 22

What instrument helped to evolve the zheng when some professionals at the Shanghai Conservatory were forced to switch instruments

Answer 22

piano

Question 23

The new generation of zheng players were primarily _______.

Answer 23

female

Question 24

Music and arts in the “New China” were to serve the goal of _________.

Answer 24

expressively serve the goals of the socialist state