Quiz 1 Review

Question 1

The characteristic quality of the sound of a voice or instrument

Answer 1

Timbre

Question 2

Antonio Lopez de _____, general and President of Mexico who lost or sold over half of Mexico’s territory between 1836 and 1853

Answer 2

Santa Anna

Question 3

Treaty of ______: it ended the U.S. - Mexican War, forcing Mexico to cede one third of its territory

Answer 3

Guadalupe Hildago

Question 4

The simultaneous sounding of two or more pitches

Answer 4

Harmony

Question 5

_____ nationalism: an ideology applied to much Mexican art after the Revolution, including the tenets that art should have a social function, and the glorification of indigenous heritage

Answer 5

Revolutionary Nationalism

Question 6

A large estate or plantation, particularly in colonial Spanish America

Answer 6

Hacienda

Question 7

A three note chord built of two thirds, one on top of the other

Answer 7

Triad

Question 8

The musical texture consisting of a single melodic line

Answer 8

Monophonic

Question 9

A social construct distinguishing one group of humans from another on the basis of shared cultural heritage, ancestry, language, history, and/or culture; it largely replaced the now outdated concept of race.

Answer 9

Ethnicity

Question 10

The musical texture consisting of a melody combined with chords.

Answer 10

Homophonic

Question 11

The idea, most often applied to the experiences of migrants, that such experience transcends the nation-state; since their experiences, allegiances and identities might be linked to more than one nation, or to no nation in particular.

Answer 11

Transnationalism

Question 12

Region of contested boundaries; this concept acknowledges intercultural contact, accommodation, and negotiation, rather than just conquest.

Answer 12

Borderlands

Question 13

The system of harmony based on the major and minor scales, in which harmonies move away from and then return to tonic.

Answer 13

Tonality

Question 14

A person of mixed Spanish and Indian heritage; by the early twentieth century they constituted the majority of the Mexican population.

Answer 14

Mestizo

Question 15

The organization of rhythm into patterns of strong and weak beats.

Answer 15

Meter

Question 16

The idea that a group of people identify with and have an allegiance to the territorial nation and the state that governs it.

Answer 16

Political Nationalism

Question 17

Seven-time president of Mexico who pursued the modernization of Mexico through foreign investment.

Answer 17

Porfirio Diaz

Question 18

The glorification of indigenous traditions and heritage; mexican revolution

Answer 18

Indigismo

Question 19

A metaphor for the US Mexico encounter, at the border and beyond, and its impact on both countries.

Answer 19

Binational Imagination

Question 20

A nationalism centered around nature and landscape; US nationalism is an example.

Answer 20

Geographic nationalism

Question 21

The arrangement of time durations in music.

Answer 21

Rhythm

Question 22

The musical texture resulting in the simultaneous combination of two or more melodic lines.

Answer 22

Polyphonic

Question 23

A meaningful or memorable succession of pitches.

Answer 23

Melody

Question 24

The first and most important note of a scale, often indicated by Roman Numeral I.

Answer 24

Tonic

Question 25

The continual process of constructing a national identity.

Answer 25

Cultural Nationalism

Question 26

Uruguayan intellectual who, in his essy Ariel, outlined the civilized Ariel and the primitive Caliban as symbols of Latin America and the U.S.

Answer 26

Jose Enrique Rodo

Question 27

_____ Destiny: the idea, prevalent expecially during the 19th c., that the United States was destined to expand westward to the Pacific and beyond. It was one of the causes of the U.S.-Mexican War

Answer 27

Manifest Destiny

Question 28

(1910-1926) The period during which Porfirio Diaz was overthrown and multiple leaders, many of them from the Northern states, vied for power in Mexico

Answer 28

Mexican Revolution

Question 29

-Onis Treaty: also known as the Transcontinental Treaty, it purchased Florida from Spain and set the boundary between the U.S. and Texas

Answer 29

Adams-Onis Treaty

Question 30

Mexican artist whose murals exemplify the tenets of Revolutionary Nationalism

Answer 30

Diego Rivera

Question 31

Commander of the Texan forces who defeated Santa Anna at San Jacinto

Answer 31

Sam Houston

Question 32

A policy pursued by the Mexican government after the US - Mexican war, which offered Mexican-origin families in the ceded territories free land to relocate South of the new border

Answer 32

Repatriation

Question 33

A walled enclosure meant to house soldiers and their families, key to defending the isolated Northern provinces during the Spanish colonial period

Answer 33

Presidio

Question 34

Mexican intellectual who coined the term “raza consmica” to describe what he saw as the superiority of the mised-race peoples of Latin America

Answer 34

Jose Vasconcelos

Question 35

Mose and Stephen ____, father and son who obtained land grants to settle hundreds of US families in Texas

Answer 35

Mose and Stephen (Austin)

Question 36

Brokered by the US ambassador to Mexico, it ceded the territory south of the Gila River to the US for $30 million

Answer 36

Gadsden Purchase

Question 37

Mexican revolutionary who commanded the Northern forces and sometimes attacked US border towns

Answer 37

Francisco Villa

Question 38

A term describing the ethnic and cultural mixing that occurred in Spanish America during colonial times

Answer 38

Mestizo

Question 39

The distance between two pitches

Answer 39

Interval

Question 40

A group of 5-7 pitches arranged according to a certain pattern of whole steps and half steps

Answer 40

Scale

Question 41

The period (1876-1911) during which Mexico was ruled by Porfirio Diaz

Answer 41

Porfiriato

Question 42

The way in which the melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic elements of music are woven together

Answer 42

Texture