Term 1

Question 1

What are the features of Aboriginal music?

Answer 1

• Singers, percussion, digeridoo
• Short melodic sections, descending in pitch
• Pulse/beat with clapsticks used by the singer

Question 2

What are some aboriginal instruments?

Answer 2

Digeridoo, clapsticks, gum leaf,

Question 3

What are the features of African music?

Answer 3

• The importance of rhythm
• Idiophones and membranophones
• Ostinatos/repeated rhythm
• Polyrhythms
• Call-and-response
• Constant tempo
• Singing in tribal language

Question 4

What are some african instruments

Answer 4

Dunduns(drums) slit log drum, gourds and rattle

Question 5

What are the features of irish music

Answer 5

• Dance based
• Lively tempo
• Heterophonic texture
• Ornamentation
• Simple forms, repeated sections
• Compound time, 9/8, 6/8

Question 6

What are some Irish instruments?

Answer 6

Bohdran(drum with double sided drumstick), tin whistle, fiddle(violin), guitar, banjo

Question 7

What are the features of Japanese music

Answer 7

• Pentatonic scale
• It was used for propaganda
• Singing in japanese

Question 8

What are some Japanese instruments?

Answer 8

Sanshin(very skinny guitar with 3 strings), Ching Dong Drum

Question 9

Ideophone

Answer 9

Vibrates when hit or scraped

Question 10

Membranophone

Answer 10

A drum made of a hollowed out object covered on the top by membrane

Question 11

Aerophone

Answer 11

Wind instrument

Question 12

Chordophone

Answer 12

stringed instrument

Question 13

homophonic texture

Answer 13

only melody and harmony, which have the same rhythm

Question 14

Monophonic texture

Answer 14

Only one melody, played by one instrument, or multiple

Question 15

Polyphonic texture

Answer 15

multiple different melodies playing simultaneously

Question 16

heterophonic texture

Answer 16

Multiple variations of the same melody played simultaniously

Question 17

binary form

Answer 17

Two sections (AB, ABAB etc.)

Question 18

Ternary form

Answer 18

three sections, the third similar to the first (ABA)

Question 19

Rondo form

Answer 19

Alternation between the main theme and other sections(ABACA or ABACADA)