MUSC Exam 1 REVIEW (2025/2026)
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often changing - correct answer ✔✔Soundscapes are:
anthropology - correct answer ✔✔Ethnomusicology is a field that combines the study of music
with the concerns and methods of:
music transmitted by oral tradition - correct answer ✔✔Most 20th century ethnomusicologists
studied
enhance the welfare of a community - correct answer ✔✔The purpose of applied
ethnomusicology is to
Sounds, settings, and significance of music - correct answer ✔✔What 3 main things does a
soundscape include?
place and time - correct answer ✔✔A soundmark identifies a particular
khoomi - correct answer ✔✔Tuvan throat singing that produces 2 tones at the same time is
called:
fundamental tone - correct answer ✔✔The tone that we perceive as the frequency or basic
pitch of an instrument's sound is called the:
harmonics - correct answer ✔✔The tones that ascend in a series above the fundamental tone
are called:
, number of vibrations of the string per second - correct answer ✔✔We perceive a high tone and
a low tone played on the violin to differ in pitch because of a difference in the:
particular partials - correct answer ✔✔Different instruments have different tone qualities
because of the presence and relative strength of:
changing the position of the tongue - correct answer ✔✔A khoomi singer produces two tones
at the same time by manipulating the mouth cavity and
overtones - correct answer ✔✔The partials that a khoomi singer projects above the
fundamental tone are also known as:
place of the performance and the behavior of the listeners who are present - correct answer
✔✔The setting of a soundscape includes the:
lengthening the performance - correct answer ✔✔Which of the following is NOT a common way
that musicians adapt a performance to a new setting?
fieldwork - correct answer ✔✔If you studied country music in the settings in which it was
created, taught, and performed, you would be be doing:
transcribe live musical performances into musical notation - correct answer
✔✔Ethnomusicologists write field notes in order to:
a precursor of comparative musicology - correct answer ✔✔Ethnomusicology is NOT:
to express political protest through music - correct answer ✔✔Tuvan singers have used khoomi
for many reasons but NOT:
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often changing - correct answer ✔✔Soundscapes are:
anthropology - correct answer ✔✔Ethnomusicology is a field that combines the study of music
with the concerns and methods of:
music transmitted by oral tradition - correct answer ✔✔Most 20th century ethnomusicologists
studied
enhance the welfare of a community - correct answer ✔✔The purpose of applied
ethnomusicology is to
Sounds, settings, and significance of music - correct answer ✔✔What 3 main things does a
soundscape include?
place and time - correct answer ✔✔A soundmark identifies a particular
khoomi - correct answer ✔✔Tuvan throat singing that produces 2 tones at the same time is
called:
fundamental tone - correct answer ✔✔The tone that we perceive as the frequency or basic
pitch of an instrument's sound is called the:
harmonics - correct answer ✔✔The tones that ascend in a series above the fundamental tone
are called:
, number of vibrations of the string per second - correct answer ✔✔We perceive a high tone and
a low tone played on the violin to differ in pitch because of a difference in the:
particular partials - correct answer ✔✔Different instruments have different tone qualities
because of the presence and relative strength of:
changing the position of the tongue - correct answer ✔✔A khoomi singer produces two tones
at the same time by manipulating the mouth cavity and
overtones - correct answer ✔✔The partials that a khoomi singer projects above the
fundamental tone are also known as:
place of the performance and the behavior of the listeners who are present - correct answer
✔✔The setting of a soundscape includes the:
lengthening the performance - correct answer ✔✔Which of the following is NOT a common way
that musicians adapt a performance to a new setting?
fieldwork - correct answer ✔✔If you studied country music in the settings in which it was
created, taught, and performed, you would be be doing:
transcribe live musical performances into musical notation - correct answer
✔✔Ethnomusicologists write field notes in order to:
a precursor of comparative musicology - correct answer ✔✔Ethnomusicology is NOT:
to express political protest through music - correct answer ✔✔Tuvan singers have used khoomi
for many reasons but NOT:
