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For what occasion(s) is Mbira music not performed for? - Answer-War How is the Korean kayagum played? - Answer-Plucking the strings Which Western composer was particularly fascinated by the Gamelan, and incorporated its texture into his compositions? - Answer-Claude Debussy What is the tex...

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For what occasion(s) is Mbira music not performed for? - Answer-War

How is the Korean kayagum played? - Answer-Plucking the strings

Which Western composer was particularly fascinated by the Gamelan, and incorporated
its texture into his compositions? - Answer-Claude Debussy

What is the texture of the music that the Gamelan plays? - Answer-Polyphonic

What term could we use to describe the music of the African Mbira and Javenese
gamelan from a Western perspective? - Answer-Minimalistic

What is Ethnomusicology? - Answer-The study of the music of non-Western cultures

Jazz has its roots in the Southern U.S. city of: - Answer-New Orleans, LA

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington experimented with sonority to develop a style within
jazz called: - Answer-Big Band

The main melody in a piece of jazz is referred to as: - Answer-The Head

Which musician was at the forefront of Dixieland music? - Answer-Louis Armstrong

After World War II, jazz, swing, and bebop evolved into a style called - Answer-Rhythm
and Blues

In jazz, the beat is "swung." "Swinging" means to: - Answer-Divide the beat unequally
into 2/3 and 1/3 halves

Bebop was pioneered by: - Answer-"Dizzy" Gillespie and Charlie Parker

When the sounds in a composition are left to chance we call this type of music: -
Answer-Indeterminacy

The first composers to make a serious break from the chromaticism of the German
Romantics were the Impressionists of: - Answer-France

The compositional technique for playing all twelve notes in a chromatic scale in a
predetermined order is called: - Answer-Serialism

, John Adams' piece "Short Ride on a Fast Machine" is an example of: - Answer-
Minimalism

Following Beethoven, classical music became increasingly: - Answer-Dissonant

In the Theme of the Variations for Orchestra Op. 31 by Arnold Schoenberg, which
instrument introduces three of the four rows? - Answer-Cello

A landmark piece of Indeterminate music is titled: - Answer-4'33"

The composer who felt German chromaticism had taken tonality as far as it could go
was: - Answer-Arnold Shoenberg

The word "symphony" refers to - Answer-A large work written for orchestra consisting
usually of four individual movements

Atonal music is music that lacks: - Answer-Tonality or a tone center

In sonata form, the three sections are called: - Answer-Exposition, Development,
Recapitulation

The first movement of a symphony is usually written in which form? - Answer-Sonata
(ABA') form

Segue means: - Answer-to continue to the next movement without a break

How did J.S. Bach make a living? - Answer-By serving as an organist and
kappelmeister to German nobility

True or False: Johann Sebastian Bach came from a family of musicians. - Answer-True

An instrumental musician who has reached the highest levels of proficiency on their
instrument - Answer-virtuoso?

Composer Franz Joseph Haydn made a living for most of his life by doing what? -
Answer-Serving as Kappelmeister for the Esterhazy family in Hungary

solo piece for an instrument? - Answer-Both Sonata & Concerto

In which way(s) are a sonata and concerto different? - Answer-A sonata is meant to be
performed in a home or other small setting; a concerto is meant to be performed in a
concert hall

fugue - Answer-a contrapuntal composition.

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