MUS 236 Exam Questions and Answers Latest Update 100% Pass

MUS 236 Exam Questions and Answers Latest Update 100% Pass Music of the Carnatic people represent this region of India - Answers southern Hindustani music of India typically represents this region of the country - Answers northern The instrument tabla is a string instrument from the Hindustani people of India T/F - Answers False, the tabla is a type of percussion instrument, drum that is used for the rhythmic beats performed in a Tala A virtuosic performer of Carnatic music is Ravi Shankar T/F - Answers False, Ravi Shankar(), sitar player grew in popularity for his ability, compositions and influence of the sitar. He collaborated with other artists such as the Beatles and toured giving concerts, making him popular outside of his home country of India, raised and schooled in the tradition of the Hindustani region and music. This composition element of Carnatic Music style is divided into three parts - Answers Kriti, divided into 3 compositional parts: pallavi, anupallavi, and caranam A type of chordophone used in Hindustani music is - Answers sitar The ragam-tanam-pallavi represents music of the Carnatic music tradition where performers use a type of improvisation used as an individual part of a concert and it is also the second most important organization framework for Carnatic music - Answers True, This ragam-tanam-pallavi usually follows after the kriti is performed (kriti is a major song type of Carnatic music) The musical ritual ceremony celebrated by Sufis in North Africa where they begin singing in unison (on same pitch) is - Answers Hadra Māqam is best defined as - Answers the type of melodic mode used in the eastern Arab world Improvisation and the voice is an important element in musics of the Middle East and North Africa. A popular solo instrumental improvisation is called the - Answers taqsim Improvisation of vocal pieces based on classical Arabic poetic forms of the same name is called - Answers qasida The ____ is a discrete rhyhmic cycle defined by the structural relationship of dum(low sound of drum), tek (high sound of drum) and ess (rest or silence). - Answers iqa Modes are important in the music represented of the Middle Eastern region. These modes are best represented by - Answers melodic and rhythmic frameworks Themes in Middle Eastern and North African music include modal organization, music and affect, dynamic relationship between music and religion and - Answers musical experiences and contributions of migrants and minorities in the region The gūshe contains melodic phrases that have main musical pieces of persian dastgah that are improvised, shorter or longer used for vocal or instrumental improvisations T/F - Answers True, the Persians use the gūshe as an element of the mode dastgah elaborating improvisations for vocal or instrumental medium. Tarab, the listening of traditional Arab music may be felt emotionally and transforming for the listener to participate with stillness, reflection, verbal exclamations, hand-clapping, or crying T/F - Answers True, there is no 'english' translation of this word but Tarab is mainly associated with urban musics of cities like Cairo, Damascus, Aleppo, Jerusalem and Beirut. The Qirā' is unique from the Qurān in that the Qirā' is - Answers when the Qurān is read aloud using chanting or sung in a melodic fashion Jingju Theater and Peking Opera are similar referring to the same type of music performed T/F - Answers True, Jingju is translates as the theater of the capital and in the early 20th century U.S. reporters called it Peking Opera as a performance troupe came through the U.S. performing the Jingju. So yes, these are the same. The Wuchang portion of the Peking opera refers to the instruments used which all represent percussion T/F - Answers True, the Wuchang portion is one of two parts making up the instrumental ensemble using percussion instruments. The Wenchang term refers to the instrumental group that creates the dramatic rhythmic patterns in the Peking Opera T/F - Answers False, the Wenchang does not create dramatic rhythm patterns, the different types of drums, gongs and cymbals do this - which are part of the Wuchang (all percussion group of instruments) The following instrument is an instrument member of the Wenchang ensemble - Answers yue qin, a string instrument member of the Wenchang melodic group of instruments. Heterophonic music occurs in the Jiangnan sizhu which is when - Answers two or more people play the same melody but make things up on the spot using embellishments on the melody, creating a unique performance each time Music of the Chinese have been used as a way to express joy and sadness in spiritual or religious reflections. Music is also used to help create emotion or moods in events such as - Answers rituals, weddings, funerals, festivals Kong Fuzi or Master Kong had the greatest impact on Chinese thinking and related music to having positive and negative powers - he was known to the Western part of the world as - Answers Confucius, founder of philosophy What event made a profound effect on the development of modern Chinese music? - Answers No answer text provided Wuchang in Jingju contains at least 60 rhythmic patterns each having a name and specific syllabic pattern T/F - Answers True, there are 5 principal percussion instruments that combine in different ways creating dramatic environments (suspense or moods) Almost all qin compositions are made up of several parts: Sanqi, Rudiao, Ruman and - Answers Weisheng, creating tail sounds Shaminism can be divided into two kinds: ectastatic/spirit and - Answers hereditary, herditary shaminism is common in the South and eastern part of Korea. The majority of shamans are female however it is not uncommon for them to wear male clothing to portray a male spirit that is possessing them during the ritual T/F - Answers True, this is true in both types of shaminism the majority of shamans are female and in ecstatic rituals they are often wearing male clothing representing male spirits. The following is an important principle of Korean traditional folk music - Answers the use of varying tempo that changes depending on the genre of Korean music, the use of musical accompaniment like a drum of the janggo using four main beats that are divided into three, and an acceleration of rhythmic patterns and sudden closures to music expressing transformation of the music during a Shaman ceremony refers to the musical accompaniment of ecstatic shaman rituals based on the traditional rhythmic patterns that is also common in most Korean traditional music. It's main characteristic being in the time signature of 12/8. - Answers Jangdan, refers to the traditional patterns of rhythm present in the musical accompaniment of the Shaman rituals. When referring to a common drum used in Korean music the following is a Korean drum: - Answers Janggo The type of percussion traditions existing for Farmers' percussion and dance bands are found in the dance genre called pungmul. Many of these processions include 4 main instruments - Answers gwaengwari, jing, janggo and buk, The ggawaengwari - small gong, jing - large gong, janggo - hourglass - shaped drum, and buk - barrel drum are the four main instruments making up the typical procession of the pungmul percussion/dance band performance. Samulnori is an example of percussion music that - Answers acts as a new type of percussion music performed for the stage inspired from farmers' band traditions and the travelling entertainers who used traditions of namsadang (traveling troups) This type of improvisation is rooted in shamanist inspired improvisations on melodies literally meaning 'scattered melodies' - Answers sanjo, This genre called sanjo has one melodic instrument that is accompanied by the janggo (hourglass drum) and follows an improvised