MA Unit One Exam

What type of music, developed in the late 1800 and early 1900s in America, helped America make its first impact in world music? 

• Country and Western
• Jazz
• Classical Music
• Rap/R&B

Which of the following terms is related to the music of Mexico and can be defined as "mixed culture"?

• Mariachi
• Vihuela
• Sones Jarochos
• Mestizo

Using our innate ability to discern musical characteristics and then describe them is using what musical technique?

• Perceptive Listening
• Musical Style
• Ethnomusicologists
• Timbre

When someone has the ability to see the world from the perspective of another person they are said to have what personal skill? 

• Culture
• Mestizo
• Empathy
• Heterophony

What term can be defined as the customs, ideas, tastes and beliefs one acquires from their background?

• Empathy
• Homophony
• Culture
• Perceptive Listening

If I were to sit at the piano and sing Happy Birthday while playing an accompaniment part, I would be using which of the following musical techniques?

• Heterophony
• Mariachi
• Homophony
• Jazz

Lali is an example of what?

• A warrior dance from Cameroon
• An aria from Peking Opera
• A concerto
• A mariachi band

What do we call professionals who specifically study the music of other cultures?

• Anthropologists
• Timbre
• Culturalists
• Ethnomusicologists

What do we call the distinct manner or character of musical expression that can be used to identify different types of music.

• Empathy
• Musical Style
• Culture
• Perceptive Listening

A Chinese musical art form that combines instruments, speaking, singing, acrobatics, martial arts, and pantomime.

• Peking Opera
• Heterophony
• Homophony
• Lali