Introduction to Ethnomusicology

The "study of signs and systems of signs, including music" refers to what discipline?

• Syntax

• Semantics

• Semiotics

• Semiology

• Sociology

What is the process where the creator of the music encodes meanings and emotions into the "neutral" composition or performance

• Emic

• Poietic

• Poiemic

• Aesthetic

What is the process of interpretation listening to a particular music

• Esthesic

• Etic

• Emic

• Ethnocentrism

Ethnocentrism assumes which of the following from another cultures values

• One's own's culture is 'normal'

• Other cultures are "strange"

• Other cultures are interesting

• Other cultures are "exotic"

In Western music, classical usually denotes which of the statement/s?

• Championed amongst the elite

• Considered high art

• Written where there is a surplus in wealth to release musicians from providing their own food and shelter

• Musicians spend their time practising their art and thinking up complex and challenging ways to perform music

It is the music that has a lower value than classical music, and created and performed by people of modest means. It requires less rehearsal to be performed proficiently and is learned through observation. What label best fit this description

• Neo-Classical

• Folk

• Popular

• Ethnic

What is the term to mean the quality of musical sound?

• Timbre

• Medium

• Pitch

• Range

What is the measurement of relative loudness and softness of sound?

What type of chordophone is this?

• Board Zither

• Tube Zither

• Lute

• Harp

What is the bar or a ridge found on chordophones that enables performers to produce different melodic pitches with consistent frequency levels

• Frets

• Bridge

• Plectrum

• Bow