LAS MAS MUS 337 STUDY GUIDE EXAM (QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS)

LAS MAS MUS 337 STUDY GUIDE EXAM (QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS) Crescendo - CORRECT ANSWER-Gradually getting louder Decrescendo - CORRECT ANSWER-Gradually getting softer Harmony - CORRECT ANSWER-Combination of notes sounding simultaneously Melody - CORRECT ANSWER-Notes forming a distinctive sequence. Timbre - CORRECT ANSWER-The characteristic QUALITY of sound produced by instruments Disonance - CORRECT ANSWER-A combination of tones being in a state of unrest and needing completion. Beat - CORRECT ANSWER-The audible, visual, or mental marking of the metrical divisions of music. Popular Music - CORRECT ANSWER-"fashionable" music historical and ongoing practice of communities Product of an author or authors. Folk music - CORRECT ANSWER-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 ANSWER-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 ANSWER-idiophones, membranophones, chordophones, aerophones