Quiz1

Question 0

Ethnomusicology

Answer 0

The study of music with their culture context.

Question 1

Ethnocentrism

Answer 1

The assumption that your culture is normal and others is strange.

Question 2

Folklore

Answer 2

The study of orally pass on folk knowledge and culture.

Question 3

Fieldwork

Answer 3

Record music in the field on cylinder, disk, wire, and shape.
First hand study of music in the original context.

Question 4

Timbre

Answer 4

Tone quality or color of a musical sound.

Question 5

Aerophone

Answer 5

Instrument that needs air to make sound.

Flute, reeds, trumpets, bellow.

Question 6

Chordophone

Answer 6

String instrument

Lutes, zithers, harps, lyres.

Question 7

Idiophone

Lamellophone

Answer 7

Vibrate to make sound.

Rattles, bells, percussion.

Question 8

Membranophone

Answer 8

Drums

Use stretched out membranes to create sound through vibration.

Question 9

Melodic contour

Answer 9

General direction of melody

“Joy to the world” descending pitch

Question 10

Drone

Answer 10

Continuous or repeating sounds.

Question 11

Medium

Answer 11

An object that makes sound.
In between sound waves.
Aerophone, chordophone, idiophone, membranophone.

Question 12

Pitch

Answer 12

Tone controlled by frequency level.

Question 13

Turning system

Answer 13

Collection of pitch frequencies used in music tradition.

Question 14

Scale

Answer 14

Pitches in a particular performance arranged in order.

Question 15

Interval

Answer 15

Distance between 2 pitches.

Question 16

Range

Answer 16

Span of pitches.

Question 17

Melody

Answer 17

An organized succession of music forming a musical idea.

Question 18

Melodic contour

Answer 18

General direction and shape of a melody.

Question 19

Ornamentation

Answer 19

Embellishment or decoration of melody

Question 20

Text setting

Answer 20

Correspondence of words to melody.

Question 21

Rhythm

Answer 21

The relationship of sound durations.

Question 22

Beat

Answer 22

A regular pulsation

Question 23

Tempo

Answer 23

Speed of the beat

Question 24

Accent

Answer 24

Emphasized beat

Question 25

Meter

Answer 25

Grouping beats to units

Question 26

Free rhythm

Answer 26

Music without pulsation

Question 27

Rhythmic density

Answer 27

Quantity of notes between periodic accents

Question 28

Phonic density

Answer 28

Relationship between musical sounds

Question 29

Monophony

Answer 29

A single line of music

Question 30

Polyphony

Answer 30

Many lines of music

Question 31

Homophony

Answer 31

Multiple lines of music expressing the same musical idea

Question 32

Independent polyphony

Answer 32

Two or more music lines expressing independent musical ideas

Question 33

Heterophony

Answer 33

Many performers playing the same line of music

Question 34

Dynamics

Answer 34

Volume of a musical sound

Question 35

Form

Answer 35

The temporal structure of a musical performance.