musc quiz 1 Flashcards

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1
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Paul Simon released his album Buena Vista Social Club in 1986, this album collaborated with a number of South African musicians.

A

False

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2
Q

A Capella
is singing without musical accompaniment

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true

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3
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polyphony
is a music type made up of several distinct lines that play simultaneously together.

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true

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4
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mbube
is a popular a capella singing tradition from south africa

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true

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5
Q

vaporwave
is an online microgenre of music that emerged in the early 2010s

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true

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6
Q

named after an Eminem song, a fandom refers to a “stalker” or obsessed fan

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false

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7
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pitch
is a sound associate with a particular frequency (hertz)

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true

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8
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happy birthday is a popular melody

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true

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9
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the aspect of music relating to degrees of loudness

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dynamics

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10
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___ is the speed at which a song is performed

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tempo

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11
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_____ is a coherent succession of notes that have an organized and recognizable sound pattern.

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melody

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12
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a form of recorded background music played in public spaces (hotels, shopping malls); referred to as elevator music

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muzak

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13
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who was the singer, actor, civil rights activist exiled from south Africa due to their stance against apartheid?

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miriam makeba

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14
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which is not a characteristic (sonic/visual) of VAPORWAVE?

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attending a live concert of your fav. vaporwave concert - they don’t have concerts

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15
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___ is the distance between two notes

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interval

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16
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which is not an example of timbre?

A

nice

17
Q

when the melody of a song actually reflects the meaning of the words

A

word painting

18
Q

that sounding of the same note by two or more musicians or singers at the same time

A

unison

19
Q

Ladysmith black Mambazo specializes in what singing tradition from south Africa?

A

mbube

20
Q

which is not a criticism faced by Paul Simon and the Graceland album.

A

he brought light to the atrocities of apartheid in south Africa

21
Q

the study of music in its social and cultural context; this discipline examines music as a social process to understand not only what music is but what it means to a practitioners and audiences

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ethnomusicology

22
Q

a person who has a “positive, personal, relatively deep emotional connection with an artists or a brand”

A

fan

23
Q

a symbol or visual representation of a musical sound

A

note

24
Q

an example of a Schizophonic performance

A

playing guitar hero, it requires a person to play with a virtual instrument

25
Q

positive about world music industry

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allows an artist to create music that expresses themselves, their culture and craft

26
Q

superfan

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someone who is more invested in an artist than the average person
(buys merch, goes to shows, follows them on social media)

27
Q

negative about music industry

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some record labels will try to control their artist and force them to confine to a specific niche/aesthetic.