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Quiz: Music of Small—scale Societies
Due Sep 5 at 11:59pm Points 80 Questions 40
Time Limit 75 Minutes Allowed Attempts 3
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LATEST Attempt 1 29 minutes 59 out of 80
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Score for this attempt: 59 out of 80
Submitted Sep 4 at 6:56am
This attempt took 29 minutes.
The quiz:
Covers the Learn material from Module 1: Week 1 — Module 2: Week 2.
Contains 40 multiple-choice, true/false, and multiple answerquestions.
Is limited to 75 minutes.
Allows 3 attempts and the highest attempt will count towards the grade.
Is worth 80 points.
Submit this assignment by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Monday of Module 2: Week 2.
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Question 1
Triple meter refers to music with three pitches.
True
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False
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Question 2
Partial
Partial
Melodies that move primarily through adjacent pitches of their
scale might be described as (choose all that apply):
conjunct
disjunct
by leap/leap-wise
stepwise
ascending
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Question 3
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Incorrect
Because of their religious signicance, Tibetan Buddhist monks
chant each pitch carefully and precisely.
True
False
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Question 4
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The music of small-scale societies typically bears a close
relationship to the sounds and materials of nature.
True
False
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Question 5
Qur'anic chantingdoesnot use diatonic scales; rather its scales
are ______.
Polytones/polytonal
Microtones/microtonal
Monotones/monotonal
Chromatic
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Question 6
Musicalinstrumentswhose sound is produced by a vibrating
column of air belong to a category of instruments called ____.
chordophones
windophones
membranophones
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aerophones
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Question 7
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Incorrect
The duration of musical tones and their organization is referred
toas tempo.
True
False
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Question 8
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Incorrect
Hildegard vonBingencomposed music (choose all that apply):
in the style of German chant
in one of the earliest styles of European polyphony
for Christian liturgies
thatinuencedGuillaume de Machaut
all of the above
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Question 9
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Most scholars generally there to be ve categories of music:
Popular, Western Art/Classical, Jazz, Traditional/World, and
Religious.
True
False
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Question 10
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Incorrect
Since everyone listens to music in the same way, music is a
universal language.
True
False
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Question 11
Bulgarian traditional villageinstrumentalmusic is notable for all
these qualities EXCEPT:
rich polyphony
ornamented melodies
fast tempos
homemade instruments
link to male gender roles
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Question 12
All of these terms are names for Shona singing styles EXCEPT
_____ and _____ (choose all that apply):
huro
hosho
mahon'era
nyamaropa
kudekerera
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Question 13
Two pitches whose rates of vibration have a ratio of two to one
(2:1) are said to be:
loud
ascending
an octave apart
a chord
a scale
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Question 14
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The way a performance of music unfolds in time (i.e., a piece of
music’s organization) is called the _______.
rhythm
tempo
texture
form
harmony
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Question 15
Guillaume de Machaut'scontemporariesincluded all
theseguresEXCEPT:
Dante
Boccaccio
Chaucer
King John of Bohemia
Charlemagne
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Question 16
A single Tuvan singer is able to produce:
a spray of overtones
two musical parts from one voice
imitations of the sounds of animals and nature
none of the above
all of the above
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Question 17
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Guillaume de Machaut's Messe deNostreDame is the earliest kind
of European polyphonic music.
True
False
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Question 18
The texture of"Gloria"from Machaut's Messe deNostreDame is
best described as:
monophonic
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polyphonic
simple
complex
syllabic
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Question 19
A melodic modeinthe Arab musical tradition is called a/an
taqsim
sama'i
ud
iq'at
maqam
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Question 20
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Incorrect
The texture ofBaAkasinging in groups might best be described
as:
Monophonic
Polyphonic
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Solo
Yodeling
Unison
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Question 21
The terms rhythm and meter are essentially synonyms.
True
False
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Question 22
Timbre is the element of music that explains
thedifferencebetween the sound of a trumpet and the sound of a
ute.
True
False
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Question 23
Although Buddhistchanthas its roots in the Ancient Period, much
of the chanting and instrumental music we hear today has its roots
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in the Medieval Period and later.
True
False
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Question 24
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Incorrect
Music has objective meaning and interpretation.
True
False
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Question 25
Tablature refers to:
the table on which some stringed instrument sit
a type of graphical notation
a type of notation that records xed pitch
a type of notation in numerical tables
a type of notation of the way an instrument is played
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Question 26
The texture of early Christian chant isbestdescribed as:
polyphonic
simple
complex
smooth
monophonic
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Question 27
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Incorrect
The Chinese qin is a/an
lute
harp
zither
lyre
aerophone
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Question 28
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A nonmetrical improvisation in the Arab musical tradition is called
a/an
taqsim
sama'i
ud
iq'at
maqam
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Question 29
Because they lack a system of writing and musical notation, the
'Are'are and similar small-scale societies lack theories describing
the "elements of music."
True
False
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Question 30
The Tuvan people live in the country of:
China
Mongolia
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Russia
Kazakhstan
Tuvula
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Question 31
Musical meaning manifests in _____.
social behavior
links to culture
political activity
economics
all of the above
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Question 32
Legato refers to playing a melody ____.
sharply
slowly
with ornaments
softly
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smoothly
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Question 33
After 1949, the Communist government of China banned the
performance of qin because of its historical association with the
elite of the country.
True
False
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Question 34
Bulgarian village music is notable for its use of ______ meters.
xed
additive
triple
duple
compound
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Question 35
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In Europe during the Medieval Period, the following intervals were
considered"perfect" (choose all that apply):
fths
fourths
thirds
sixths
octaves
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Question 36
ThomasMapfumois noted for his use of the Shona mbira in his
popular music.
True
False
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Question 37
The ancient Chinese classied musical instruments according to:
their size
their playing technique
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the primary vibratingmaterial
the primary material from which they were made
their function in a Chineseorchestra
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Question 38
Since the simplest type of human music making is
monophonyaccording to some, small-scale,"simple"societies
typically lack polyphony.
True
False
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Question 39
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The bagpipes are from Scotland.
True
False
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Question 40
Inherent polyphony refers to monophonic musical lines that can be
experienced as two or more lines in a polyphonic texture.
