test prep

Question 1

chordophones

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a stringed instrument, lute, zither, harp, lyer

Question 2

soundscape

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a sound or combination of sounds that forms or arises from an immersive environment.

Question 3

soundmark

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where representing a melody that is graphically presented by notes.

Question 4

ethnomusicology

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the study of the music of different cultures, especially non-Western ones.

Question 5

fieldwork

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the gathering of unknown information.

Question 6

acoustics

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the properties or qualities of a room or building that determine how sound is transmitted in it.

Question 7

fundamental tone

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the tone which represents the fundamental frequency of a vibrating object such as a string or bell.

Question 8

harmonics/partials/overtones

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a sound wave that has a frequency that is an integer multiple of a fundamental tone, Tones that cannot be multiplied or divided by a whole number are known as inharmonic overtones, or partial tones.

Question 9

register

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a particular part of the range of a voice or instrument.

Question 10

organology

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the science that studies musical instruments including their classification and evolution throughout history.

Question 11

Sachs-Hornbostel system

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Divides all musical instruments into five categories: idiophones, membranophones, chordophones, aerophones, and electrophones.

Question 12

ideophones

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class of musical instruments in which a resonant solid material—such as wood, metal, or stone—vibrates to produce the initial sound. such as shakers.

Question 13

aerophones

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a wind instrument

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membranophones

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sound is made through a vibrating membrane, such as a drum.

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electrophones

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any instrument where electricity is involved.

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composition

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the act of conceiving a piece of music, the art of creating music, or the finished product.

Question 17

improvisation

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the extemporaneous composition or free performance of a musical passage

Question 18

katajjait

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involves two women standing face to face, producing guttural, animal-like repetitions until someone runs out of breath.

Question 19

duduk

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an ancient Armenian double reed woodwind instrument made of apricot wood.

Question 20

didjeridu

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didgeridoo is an Australian wind instrument, played with continuously vibrating lips to produce a continuous drone while using a special breathing technique called circular breathing.

Question 21

Mbuti musical bow

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a simple string instrument used by a number of South African peoples

Question 22

sitar

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a plucked stringed instrument, originating from the Indian subcontinent, used in Hindustani classical music.

Question 23

steel drums/pans

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a musical instrument originating from Trinidad and Tobago, made out of old oil drums.

Question 24

Bollywood

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Bollywood, a portmanteau of “Hollywood” and “Bombay” (the former name of Mumbai), refers to the Hindi-language sector of India’s movie-making industry, still based in Mumbai.

Question 25

ballad

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A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music

Question 26

gamelan ensemble

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the term for a traditional musical ensemble in Indonesia, typically refers to a percussion orchestra composed predominantly of tuned gongs of various types and metal-keyed instruments.

Question 27

fado

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"fate" a music genre that can be traced to the 1820s in Lisbon, Portugal.

Question 28

timbre

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the character or quality of a musical sound or voice as distinct from its pitch and intensity.

Question 29

intensity/dynamics

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how quietly or loudly a piece of music should be played.

Question 30

pitch

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the quality of a sound governed by the rate of vibrations producing it; the degree of highness or lowness of a tone.

Question 31

range

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the area of variation between upper and lower limits on a particular scale.

Question 32

interval

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a difference in pitch between two sounds.

Question 33

scale

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any set of musical notes ordered by fundamental frequency or pitch.

Question 34

melody

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a sequence of single notes that is musically satisfying.

Question 35

conjunct/disjunct motion

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conjunct motion, which proceeds by step from one scale degree to the next (i.e., by the interval of a second) and disjunct motion, which proceeds by leap.

Question 36

ornaments

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musical flourishes—typically, added notes—that are not essential to carry the overall line of the melody.

Question 37

phrase

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a substantial musical thought, which ends with a musical punctuation called a cadence.

Question 38

duration

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the length of time each note is played for.

Question 39

tempo

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the speed at which a piece of music should be played.

Question 40

pulse/beat

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a steady beat like a ticking clock or your heartbeat.

Question 41

meter

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refers to the regularly recurring patterns and accents such as bars and beats.

Question 42

measure

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refers to a single unit of time featuring a specific number of beats played at a particular tempo.

Question 43

simple vs compound

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two-part rhythms vs three-part rhythms.

Question 44

accent

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a marking on a musical score that indicates how the musician should play the note in the context of a larger phrase.

Question 45

syncopation

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the displacement of regular accents associated with given metrical patterns.

Question 46

irregular meter

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beats do not divide evenly into groups of two, three or four.

Question 47

free meter

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a type of musical anti-meter free from musical time and time signature. It is used when a piece of music has no discernible beat. Instead, the rhythm is intuitive and free-flowing.

Question 48

texture

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how the tempo, melodic, and harmonic materials are combined in a musical composition.

Question 49

harmony

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the combination of simultaneously sounded musical notes to produce chords and chord progressions having a pleasing effect.

Question 50

monophony

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musical texture made up of a single unaccompanied melodic line.

Question 51

biphony

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a single melodic line is joined by another instrument or voice playing a drone

Question 52

homophony

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A musical texture consisting of one melody and an accompaniment that supports it.

Question 53

polyphony

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the simultaneous combination of two or more tones or melodic lines.

Question 54

heterophony

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a type of texture characterized by the simultaneous variation of a single melodic line.

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form

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refers to the structure of a musical composition or performance.

Question 56

strophic form

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a form of music in which one verse, or passage, structure is repeated over and over.

Question 57

refrain

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the line or lines that are repeated in music or in poetry.