EAST ASIAN MUSIC

What is a barrel-shaped drum with lashed or tacked heads, usually played with sticks?

• Taiko

• Piri

• Hichiriki

• Shamisen

What is the musical characteristics of traditional Japan music?

• Music is very simple

• Sing melodies in unison

• Never repeat same melody in a song

• All of these

What are the two most important aspects of traditional Chinese music?

• Ryhthm and beat

• Melody and tone

• Harmony and accompaniment

• Rhythm and tone

It is an hour glass-shaped percussion instrument used to accompany the traditional music of Korea.

• Piri

• Changgo

• Taiko

• Sho

What is the vocal quality of Chinese vocal music?

• Thin voice

• Non-resonant voice

• Falsetto

• All of these

What traditional song that has a beautifully gentle and lyrical melody that also turns into a love song?

• Furusato

• Ariarang

• Mo Li Hua

• Loi Loi Gratong

What traditional song that expresses a song of farewell and represents all the joys and sorrows in the history?

• Furusato

• Arirang

• Mo Li Hua

• Loi Loi Gratong

What traditional song that describes a person who is working in a distant land, expressing his feelings of homesickness for the hills and fields of his childhood home?

• Furusato

• Arirang

• Mo Li Hua

• Loi Loi Gratong

What particular country in East Asia that the musicians show spiritual mastery in mastering their instrument more than simply perfecting a technique?

• China

• Japan

• Korea

• All of these

What is the musical characteristic of Korean music?

• All traditional music is melodic rather than harmonic.

• Their traditional music is very simple, sing melodies in unison and never repeat same melody in a song.

• Their traditional music has become part of the Confucian tradition which is used in performing rituals.

• Their traditional music represents a world of captivating rhythm and melody whose sound draw in listeners like a breath.