Chapter 4 vocab

What is the term for people living outside their historic homeland who maintain memories of, and attachments to, their place of origin?

• Diaspora

• Oral transmission

• Muyu

• Cadence

What is the method of transmitting music without writing called?

• Written transmission

• Oral transmission

• Fixed form

• Glissando

What is vocal music in which each syllable of text is sung to one pitch called?

• Melismatic text setting

• Syllabic text setting

• Mawwal

• Diaspora

What is the term for vocal music in which each syllable of the text is sung to many pitches?

• Syllabic text setting

• Melismatic text setting

• Cadence

• Offbeat

What is a plucked five-stringed Middle Eastern lute with a short neck and a large body with a rounded back?

• Qanun

• 'ud

• Plectrum

• Maqam

What is a Middle Eastern trapezoidal zither with twenty-six sets of three strings?

• 'ud

• Qanun

• Plectrum

• Mawwal

What is a small piece of hard material used to pluck strings on certain instruments?

• Qanun

• Plectrum

• 'ud

• Maqam

What is the rhythmic organization based on groupings, or measures, of four beats?

• Duple meter

• Quadruple meter

• Syllabic text setting

• Melismatic text setting

What is a Dan nhi?

• A Vietnamese zither with a pitch-bending bar

• A Vietnamese sixteen-stringed zither

• A Vietnamese two-stringed lute

• A Vietnamese work song

What is Tan nhac?

• A Vietnamese popular song tradition

• A Vietnamese work song

• A Vietnamese zither with a pitch-bending bar

• A melody that contrasts with a main melody