Music /MUSI 1309 Final Exam
The traditional Arab form 'mawwal' typically combines the 'ud and qanun with Western instruments such as
The Violin
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The traditional Arab form 'mawwal' typically combines the 'ud and qanun with Western instruments such as
The Violin
'Talattu' is the Tamil word for
Lullaby
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As individuals of Irish or Scottish descent became police officers in the United States,
bagpipe bands became closely associated with many US police and fire departments
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------- are the Indian system for organizing melodies
Ragas
The ----- is a wind instrument with an air reservoir squeezed under one arm, a blowpipe or bellows, and one or more sounding pipes fitted with reeds that vibrate to produce sound.
Bagpipe
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The African migration is an example of
Forced migration
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
The traditional Arab form 'mawwal' typically combines the 'ud and qanun with Western instruments such as | The Violin |
'Talattu' is the Tamil word for | Lullaby |
As individuals of Irish or Scottish descent became police officers in the United States, | bagpipe bands became closely associated with many US police and fire departments |
------- are the Indian system for organizing melodies | Ragas |
The ----- is a wind instrument with an air reservoir squeezed under one arm, a blowpipe or bellows, and one or more sounding pipes fitted with reeds that vibrate to produce sound. | Bagpipe |
The African migration is an example of | Forced migration |
Some Chinese immigrants called the United States 'Jinshan', meaning | Gold Mountain |
The ----- that the seventeenth century British immigrants carried with them became associated with the mountains of Virginia and Kentucky | Ballads |
Meaning shapes our perceptions of music's importance in our lives in what ways? | 1. Sound can imitate or refer to other sounds |
The Chinese and Arab migrations are examples of: | Voluntary Migration |
Chinese immigrants came to the United States: | - First Immigrants were attracted by the California Gold Rush |
The 'Piobaireachd' is a repertory of compositions that emerged through what famous family of pipers? | The MacCrimmons |
Importance of a musical piece is determined by the listener's ------ of a given music's meaning and perceptions of its value to others within the same soundscape. | Understanding |
Throughout the course of the semester we have talked about two important transmission processes for music, | D. both A & B |
The ----- has long been used as a lament to commemorate a person's death. | Pibroch |
------ were the musical expression of slaves that converted to Christianity. | Spirituals |
A Mexican instrument ensemble combining trumpets and plucked and bowed string instruments | Mariachi |
------- was one of the most famous interpreters of the 'classical' spiritual | Paul Robeson |
Conquest and -------- are two causes of forced migration | slavery |
In Chapter 4 we looked at two types of migration, ------ migration | Voluntary and Forced |
'Uncle Ng Comes to the Gold Mountain' Traces and recounts details of the Chinese ------ process through music. | immigration |
Gracings are: | Characteristic bagpipe ornaments |
Celebrated in Latino communities, marks a teenage girl's passage into adulthood | Quincenera |
The term ------ is used today to name any sort of social musical event associated with Scottish or Irish traditions. | Ceilidh |
Huddie Ledbetter was a great African American folksinger who was better known as: | LeadBelly |
'Canntaireachd' is: | a vocal style that imitates the bagpipe |
In bagpipe music, the term cutting refers: | The insertion of grace notes to divide a sustained sound |
A quincenera typically consists of | all of the above |
All of the following are aspects of the traditional Southeastern song genre called 'muk'yu' except | Are sung to feel a connection to nature |
Bagpipes have been linked symbolically with warfare and death since: | 1549 |
What word best represents the following statement? 'Music is able to elicit many ideas and emotions at the same time'. | Significance |
Ireland has its own 'great pipes' also known as union pipes or | Uilleann |
Which of the following is NOT true of the Arab migration from the Middle East? | Immigrants were forced out of their homeland |
The history of the bagpipe extends well beyond its Scottish and Irish roots. | True |
Many early Chinese immigrants considered themselves temporary residents in the United States | true |
Music is important to the migration process because it is portable | True |
The distinctive sound of the Scottish pipes is reflected in Scottish and Irish music | True |
Bagpipes are among the instruments most strongly associated with men and historically male institutions such as the military | True |
There is no archaeological evidence of bagpipes in the ancient Middle East | False |
Many songs performed at a quincenera are not exclusive to the occasion | True |
The instrument most widely played today in Irish and Scottish bagpipe bands is the Scottish Highland Bagpipe. | true |
In the second half of the twentieth century there was an emergence of female pipers. | True |
Many important musical repertories show traces of the painful experiences of African Americans during the slave era that followed their forced movement to the US. | true |
The Irish pipes are bigger than the Scottish highland pipes. | False |
By the late 19th century, the 'Spiritual' moved to the concert stage | True |