MUS 337 Quiz (Correctly solved)

Crescendo correct answers Gradually getting louder Decrescendo correct answers Gradually getting softer Harmony correct answers Combination of notes sounding simultaneously Melody correct answers Notes forming a distinctive sequence. Timbre correct answers The characteristic QUALITY of sound produced by instruments Disonance correct answers A combination of tones being in a state of unrest and needing completion. Beat correct answers The audible, visual, or mental marking of the metrical divisions of music. Popular Music correct answers "fashionable" music historical and ongoing practice of communities Product of an author or authors. Folk music correct answers Circulates via oral tradition Transmitted by word of mouth rather than through notation. Performed by rural or impoverished people May be viewed as the common property of a community Music in Ancient Indigenous Life correct answers Ancient origin myth: Nahua believed that song embodied divine breath. Song appears in manuscripts such as the Bourbon Codex as flowered speech. The music and shape of the instruments provided links between the world of the creators and the world of the created. Instruments reflected the attributes of the gods as well as the musical resonance associated with natural beings and phenomena; thus, a shell was associated with the wind, etc. Categories of instruments correct answers idiophones, membranophones, chordophones, aerophones. Idiophones correct answers Means "self -sounding". Body of the instrument generates the primary source of vibration. Membranophones correct answers Stretched membrane generates the primary sound. Aerophones correct answers Sound is generated by trapped or forced air.