MUS 130 Exam 1 Complete Questions With Answers Well Elaborated Answers.
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What is music? - correct answer Organized sound or "humanly organized sound"
Is music a universal language? - correct answer Music IS universal, but IS NOT a universal language.
Describe Nigeria's role in Afro-Cuban mus...
MUS 130 Exam 1
What is music? - correct answer Organized sound or "humanly organized sound"
Is music a universal language? - correct answer Music IS universal, but IS NOT a
universal language.
Describe Nigeria's role in Afro-Cuban music? - correct answer Yoruba culture,
language, music, and religion were especially influential in the African diaspora.
What is jargon? - correct answer Discipline-specific vocabulary
What are the properties of sound? - correct answer Quality (Timbre or Aural Color)
Pitch (Tone)
Duration (Rhythm)
Texture (Monophony, Polyphony)
Volume (Dynamics)
How do the Kpelle people classify instruments? - correct answer inst. groups based
on how they
make sound, but only two categories of instruments: blown and struck
What is the Sachs-Hornbostel classification system? - correct answer inst. groups
based on how they make
sound
Describe Patricia Campbell's view of creativity. - correct answer music is creative
b/c it provides channels for a
performer's personal expression,
, imagination, and interpretation
Describe the Funga rhythm. - correct answer Inspired by a traditional rhythm in
liberia, a "welcome and Blessing" song.
describe the Kepelle people. - correct answer Largest ethnic group in Liberia, all
members of society are involved
in performance, though some are
specialists (griot/jeli), o equivalent to Western word for "music."
Describe listening file #1. - correct answer Different parts of epic tale fit together,
creating
overlapping call and response, Features the glass bottle ("found" instrument) playing an ostinato
(repeated) pattern, Many epic stories are performed in traditional contexts with 5 different parts: soloist
(storyteller), song
catcher (dialogues with soloist/fills in gaps btwn solo and chorus parts), questioner (asks questions of
soloist
to propel storyline), instrumentalis
What is a "found" instrument? - correct answer An instrument that isn't necessairily
created to play--(i.e., glass bottle or spoons)
What is ostinato? - correct answer A repeated pattern
what is a griot/jeli? - correct answer Specialists and leaders of a certain
instrument/style.
What is polyrhythm? - correct answer Multiple different rhythms happening at one
time.
What are some common West African music principles? - correct answer Passed
down orally, paired with dance, focuses on group over individual, polyrhythmic.
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