Chapter 4 World Music

What term designates groups or sets of beats divided by vertical lines on the music staff?

• accent

• meter

• measure

• ostinato

What word refers to a type of spontaneous musical invention?

• Improvisation

• Sycopation

• Meter

• Ostinato

What term is used to describe the aural aspects of music in which a certain number of beats are grouped together?

• Measure

• Meter

• Accent

• Ostinato

What word means deliberate shifts of the accent so that it goes against the steady beat, conflicts with it, and tries to upset the steady beat?

• Accent

• Ostinato

• Improvisation

• Syncopation

What is a repeated musical figure called?

• Accent

• Measure

• Ostinato

• Meter

What term refers to the emphasis placed on a sound or pitch in music>?

• Accent

• Improvisation

• Meter

• Measure

Ragtime was a popular form of dance music in America before __________.

• the Revolutionary War

• World War I

• World War II

• the Vietnam war

__________ composed the "Maple Leaf Rag."

• Scott Joplin

• Mickey Hart

• Eubie Blake

• Jelly Roll Morton

Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov used ___________ in "Procession of the Nobles."

• Rhythmic Ostinato

• Melodic Ostinato

• Syncopation

• Mixed Meters

The Bamileke people perform highly rhythmic music to accompany their ________.

• Warrior Dance

• Hunting Dance

• Marriage Dance

• Death Dance