LAS MAS MUS 337 Final Exam
Questions And Answers
Dynamics - Answer-volume and articulation of sounds
/.Form - Answer-underlying organizational structure of the sounds
/.Texture - Answer-phonic structure or relationships between the sounds
/.Pitch - Answer-frequency of the tone
/.Timbre - Answer-tone or aural color
how we can recognize an instrument from their tone
/.Rhythm - Answer-duration of sounds and silences and organization of such
/.Elements of Dance - Answer-body, effort, time, space
/.Idiophones - Answer-vibrations of instruments body
/.Chordophones - Answer-vibrations of strings
/.Membraneophones - Answer-vibrations of stretched skins, organic or synthetic
/.Areophones - Answer-vibrations of air columns
/.How did Chicano music during the late 1960s and early 1970s change? - Answer-
People were frustrated with the government so music became more political
/.How did the women in the film "Companeras" learn the mariachi traditions of music -
Answer-They were self-taught or they studied classical music in school. But some of
them did learn from their family
/.Why is the participation of other non-Mexican ensembles in the genre of mariachi
music significant? - Answer-To help spread mariachi across the world and not have it
exclusively be in Mexico
/.What are some of the issues in Mexican corridos? - Answer-Not only drugs but they
also discuss immigration and the Mexican work ethic
/.What are some of the issue of Mexico mentioned in the film "Hecho en Mexico"? -
Answer-Gender, borders, and the environment/pollution
, /.Essentialization - Answer-The process of reducing people and their cultural expression
to a limited set of essential characteristics
/.Mestizaje - Answer-Indigenous-Spaniard offspring
/.Participatory Performance - Answer-the audience has a role in the performance
/.Presentational Performance - Answer-the audience simple listens and watches the
performance
/.Sesquialtera - Answer-a 2-beat phrase divided into two groups with six beats
/.Zapateado - Answer-the foot-stomping heard in Mexican son that creates rhythmic
accents
/.Structure of Corrido - Answer-Each copla is sung to a repeated strophic melody to tell
an often epic story.
Verses build a story:
opening verses sets the scene (date, time, place)
narration of the story
closing verse is the concluding message (despedida)
poetry follows ABCB rhyme scheme
predictable alternation of two or three chords
Rhythm of waltz and polka (duple/triple meter)
upbeat no matter what
/.Why do practitioners of Danza Aztec take issue with Danza de los Concheros? -
Answer-Because of the use of the concha represents European influence on indigenous
practices
/.Gloria Rios - Answer-Queen of rock and roll
One of the earliest stars of Mexican rock music on TV and recordings
/.Pancho Villa - Answer-A major leader during the revolution who's real name is Doroteo
Arango (1878-1923)
/.Porfirio Diaz - Answer-the president/dictator of Mexico from 1848 to 1876
/.Porfiriato - Answer-the name of the era in which Porfirio Diaz ruled
/.Ritchie Valens - Answer-Influential Chicano musician who toured with the Big Bopper,
Buddy Holly, and Frankie Sardo, but died at 17 years old in small flight accident ("The
day the music died")
/.Jorge Negrete - Answer-singer-actor who became the idealized representative of the
handsome heroic rancher
Questions And Answers
Dynamics - Answer-volume and articulation of sounds
/.Form - Answer-underlying organizational structure of the sounds
/.Texture - Answer-phonic structure or relationships between the sounds
/.Pitch - Answer-frequency of the tone
/.Timbre - Answer-tone or aural color
how we can recognize an instrument from their tone
/.Rhythm - Answer-duration of sounds and silences and organization of such
/.Elements of Dance - Answer-body, effort, time, space
/.Idiophones - Answer-vibrations of instruments body
/.Chordophones - Answer-vibrations of strings
/.Membraneophones - Answer-vibrations of stretched skins, organic or synthetic
/.Areophones - Answer-vibrations of air columns
/.How did Chicano music during the late 1960s and early 1970s change? - Answer-
People were frustrated with the government so music became more political
/.How did the women in the film "Companeras" learn the mariachi traditions of music -
Answer-They were self-taught or they studied classical music in school. But some of
them did learn from their family
/.Why is the participation of other non-Mexican ensembles in the genre of mariachi
music significant? - Answer-To help spread mariachi across the world and not have it
exclusively be in Mexico
/.What are some of the issues in Mexican corridos? - Answer-Not only drugs but they
also discuss immigration and the Mexican work ethic
/.What are some of the issue of Mexico mentioned in the film "Hecho en Mexico"? -
Answer-Gender, borders, and the environment/pollution
, /.Essentialization - Answer-The process of reducing people and their cultural expression
to a limited set of essential characteristics
/.Mestizaje - Answer-Indigenous-Spaniard offspring
/.Participatory Performance - Answer-the audience has a role in the performance
/.Presentational Performance - Answer-the audience simple listens and watches the
performance
/.Sesquialtera - Answer-a 2-beat phrase divided into two groups with six beats
/.Zapateado - Answer-the foot-stomping heard in Mexican son that creates rhythmic
accents
/.Structure of Corrido - Answer-Each copla is sung to a repeated strophic melody to tell
an often epic story.
Verses build a story:
opening verses sets the scene (date, time, place)
narration of the story
closing verse is the concluding message (despedida)
poetry follows ABCB rhyme scheme
predictable alternation of two or three chords
Rhythm of waltz and polka (duple/triple meter)
upbeat no matter what
/.Why do practitioners of Danza Aztec take issue with Danza de los Concheros? -
Answer-Because of the use of the concha represents European influence on indigenous
practices
/.Gloria Rios - Answer-Queen of rock and roll
One of the earliest stars of Mexican rock music on TV and recordings
/.Pancho Villa - Answer-A major leader during the revolution who's real name is Doroteo
Arango (1878-1923)
/.Porfirio Diaz - Answer-the president/dictator of Mexico from 1848 to 1876
/.Porfiriato - Answer-the name of the era in which Porfirio Diaz ruled
/.Ritchie Valens - Answer-Influential Chicano musician who toured with the Big Bopper,
Buddy Holly, and Frankie Sardo, but died at 17 years old in small flight accident ("The
day the music died")
/.Jorge Negrete - Answer-singer-actor who became the idealized representative of the
handsome heroic rancher
