music pt 2

Question 1

is an ancient carnival tradition found in Pernambuco in the Northeastern Brazil.

Answer 1

Maracatu

Question 2

It has rooted from the music and tradition of African slaves who worked in sugar farms and Pernambuco states.

Answer 2

Maracatu

Question 3

It was formed by the African slaves’ religious brotherhood to preserve their culture and tradition.

Answer 3

Maracatu

Question 4

The Maracatu performs by parading with 80 to 100 drum ensemble, singer, chorus, with a coterie of dancers.

Answer 4

Maracatu

Question 5

is a style of music in the late 19th century, originated from African-Americans in the Southern United States that often expresses a wide range of emotions.

Answer 5

Blues

Question 6

The word often mirrors the deep emotion of black Americans from injustices or a feeling of sadness, longing, and lost.

Answer 6

Blues

Question 7

Some of the famous R&B singers include: Alicia Keys, Adele, Anastacia, Aretha Franklin, B.B King, Bruno Mars, Demi Lovato, Diana Ross.

Answer 7

Blues

Question 8

music is a popular music genre in the late 1950s and early 1960s originated in the United States.

Answer 8

Soul

Question 9

It incorporates the elements of African-American gospel music, rhythm and blues, and jazz and characterized by a strong beat and emphasis on singing.

Answer 9

Soul

Question 10

Other characteristics include the call-and-response, the use of improvisation, twirls, and auxiliary sounds.

Answer 10

Soul

Question 11

auxiliary sounds.
It is associated with Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, and Otis Redding.

Answer 11

Soul

Question 12

music is a religious folk song that existed outside an established church. Also known as Negro spirituals, these are Christian songs created by the African people to express their Christian faith through spiritual songs.

Answer 12

Spiritual

Question 13

These instruments are specifically classified into groups namely:

Answer 13

chordophones, idiophones, aerophones, and membranophones.

Question 14

are musical instruments that produce sounds by striking, shaking, or scraping.

Answer 14

Idiophones

Question 15

is a single-headed open goblet drum played with bare hands. It has a unique and distinctive design carved and hollowed out of a tree trunk and covered with a goat skin.

Answer 15

Djembe (Zhem-bay)

Question 16

is a beaded handmade rattle. It consists of a hollow gourd or calabash, covered with a net of seeds, beads, shells, or any available materials from west Africa. It is played in a variety of styles and comes in many shapes and sizes.

Answer 16

Shekere

Question 17

is a very large beaded calabash traditionally owned and played by professional musicians in Nigeria. It is an instrument that can never be shared even with the family members but can be inherited by a son from his father if he is a professional musician.

Answer 17

Agbe

Question 18

are musical instruments which have vibrating animal membranes.

Answer 18

memberaphones

Question 19

is one of the most respected drum in Southern Nigeria similar to Kalangu drum of Northern Nigeria.

It is played with a beater and can imitate a speech pattern or use as signals for warnings and announcements. The talking drum leads most of the musical instruments and its sound gives the dancers the direction on what to do at a given time.

Answer 19

Talking drum

Question 20

are musical instruments that produce sounds from the vibration of strings.

Answer 20

Chordophones

Question 21

are musical instruments that produce sounds by a vibrating air.

Answer 21

Aerophones

Question 22

comes from the horn of kudu antelope hollowed out as a wind instrument used for signals.

This instrument comes in a set of six horns which mirrors the propagation of Africa’s musical tradition. The Kudu horn releases a mellow and warm sound that has the ability to add a unique accent to the African music.

Answer 22

Kudu Horn (Koodoo)

Question 23

in Africa are widely spread and are made from variety of materials such as wood, metal, horns, tusks, and gourds. They are ceremonial in nature and used in different functions such as for giving signals and announcements.

Some African tribes believed that the trumpet has the power to cast away evil spirits, cure diseases, and to give the warriors and hunters protection from harm

Answer 23

Trumpets

Question 24

any of a class of a musical instruments played by the thumbs, whose sound is generated by plucking flexible tuned tonques of metal, wood, cane or any material attached in a board resonator.

Answer 24

lamellaphone

Question 25

thumb piano, or finger xylophone is Zimbabwe’s most important instrument played in religious and social celebrations.

It is a lamellaphone percussion instrument consisting of series tuned metal or bamboo tongues attached on a sound board or box resonator. It is called a thumb piano because the thumbs play the wooden or metal tongues.

Answer 25

Mbira