Quiz 3: Week Six

Question 1

Daoism

Answer 1

Yin and Yang, the idea that any entity comprises not only on a principal object, there’s a balance, literally the male and female principles

Question 2

Shan’ge

Answer 2

Outdoor songs for agricultural work, flirting, and courting

Question 3

Jiangnan Sizhu

Answer 3

Means silk and bamboo music of the Jiangnan region in East China

Question 4

Sanxian

Answer 4

3 stringed long necked lute

Question 5

Erhu

Answer 5

2 stringed fiddle

Question 6

Pipa

Answer 6

4 stringed pear shaped lute

Question 7

Ruan

Answer 7

4 stringed round bodied lute

Question 8

Yangqin

Answer 8

hammered dulcimer

Question 9

Zheng

Answer 9

25 stringed zither

Question 10

Dizi

Answer 10

transverse bamboo flute

Question 11

Xiao

Answer 11

bamboo end blown flute, held like clarinet

Question 12

Sheng

Answer 12

mouth organ

Question 13

Beiguan

Answer 13

A band of wind and percussion players who perform outdoor ritual music, predominantly at funerals, and temple festivities

Question 14

Jingju

Answer 14

Beijing Opera

Question 15

Qingyi

Answer 15

A serious heroine in Beijing opera

Question 16

Qin

Answer 16

7 stringed zither, vehicle for spiritual reflection, a solo instrumental tradition

Question 17

Pasibutbut

Answer 17

Singing from the Bunan indigenous people who inhibit central Eastern Taiwan

Question 18

Bunun

Answer 18

indigenous people who inhabit central eastern Taiwan

Question 19

Twelve Girls Band

Answer 19

plays electronically mediated arrangements on tradition Chinese instruments, illustrates the ongoing internationalization of contemporary musics from China

Question 20

Shanghai Restoration Project

Answer 20

contemporary electronic duos of Chinese American Dave Liong and Sun Yunfen, inspired by the Shanghai jazz bands of 1930s, combines traditional Chinese instrument with hip hop and electronica

Question 21

Gamelan

Answer 21

consists of several kinds of metal slab instruments, tuned knobbed gongs, drums, wind, and stringed

Question 22

Wayang Orang

Answer 22

Javanese dance drama; dancer-actors presenting episodes derived from the Ramayana and Mahabharata, accompanied by gamelan.

Question 23

Yogyakarta

Answer 23

Yogya, one of two famous court cities in Central Java, cultural centers where traditional gamelan music and related performing arts have flourished in their most elaborate and refined forms

Question 24

Surakarta

Answer 24

Solo, one of two famous court cities in Central Java, cultural centers where traditional gamelan music and related performing arts have flourished in their most elaborate and refined forms

Question 25

Lengger

Answer 25

village dance featuring female street dancers/singers

Question 26

Ebeg

Answer 26

male ritual trance dance

Question 27

Sléndro

Answer 27

5 tone, f tone, with equidistant intervals

Question 28

Pélog

Answer 28

7 tone scale, of small and large intervals

Question 29

Saron

Answer 29

six or sevel metal slabs resting on tough resonator, plays main melody

Question 30

Kendang

Answer 30

Double-headed, barrel-shaped drum (Java); similar term used in West Java and Bali (kendang).

Question 31

Gong

Answer 31

Gong ageng, largest hanging gong, marks ends of major phrases of main melody

Question 32

Gérong

Answer 32

small male chorus

Question 33

Pesindhen

Answer 33

female soloists

Question 34

Wayang Kulit

Answer 34

shadow puppetry, using flat, leather puppets made of water buffalo hide

Question 35

Dhalang

Answer 35

the puppeteer of wayang kulit

Question 36

Dangdut

Answer 36

Hybrid genre of Indonesian popular music, combining influences from Indian film music, Western rock, and Indonesian regional styles from Sumatra

Question 37

Rhoma Irama

Answer 37

Kind of Dangdut

Question 38

Kroncong

Answer 38

ukulele like instrument in Indonesian music

Question 39

Langgam Jawa

Answer 39

regional form of Indonesian kroncong music most often associated with the city of Surakarta (Solo).