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Music of China Review

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who was the first Chinese Rock musician?

a)

Cui Jian

b)

Teresa Teng

c)

Joey Yung

d)

The Beatles

2.

Chinese music often uses a 5-tone scale, also known as the ____________________.

a)

Chinese Scale

b)

Major Scale

c)

Pentatonic Scale

d)

Quadratic Scale

3.

What are the Oboe-like horns in Northern Chinese Music called?

a)

Erhu

b)

Sizhu

c)

Dizi

d)

Suona

4.

What Chinese wind instrument can play 2 notes at the same time?

a)

Dizi

b)

Sheng

c)

Yangqin

d)

Pipa

5.

What is it called when a group of musicians all play the same song but add small changes?

a)

Pentatonic scale

b)

Heterophony

c)

Polyphony

d)

Homophony

6.

What Chinese instrument only has 2 strings?

a)

Pipa

b)

Yangqin

c)

Erhu

d)

Sheng

7.

What Chinese Instrument is played using small, wooden mallets on strings?

a)

Yangqin

b)

Pipa

c)

Erhu

d)

Dizi

8.

Who secretly opposed the Chinese government by recording their own music and giving it to other people?

a)

Cui Jian

b)

Teresa Teng

c)

The Twins

d)

Joey Yung

9.

Which Chinese instrument is played with a bow?

a)

Pipa

b)

Suona

c)

Dizi

d)

Erhu

10.

What instrument is this?

a)

Pipa

b)

Yangqin

c)

Suona

d)

Erhu

11.

What instrument is this?

a)

Pipa

b)

Yangqin

c)

Erhu

d)

Dizi

12.

What instrument is this?

a)

Pipa

b)

Yangqin

c)

Erhu

d)

Dizi

13.

What instrument is this?

a)

Pipa

b)

Sheng

c)

Erhu

d)

Dizi

14.

What instrument is this?

a)

Pipa

b)

Sheng

c)

Erhu

d)

Dizi

15.

Who is the modern, famous Pipa player/teacher that we learned about?

a)

Man Man

b)

Cui Jian

c)

Wu Man

d)

Man Wu

16.

What is the Southern Classical music that is played in teahouses called?

a)

Suhdroo

b)

Sizhu

c)

Southern Classical style

d)

Cantopop

17.

What does Chinese opera have in common with European and American Opera?

a)

Use of scenery/sets

b)

Use of costumes

c)

Singing techniques

d)

Acting scenes

18.

What were Cui Jian's rock songs about?

a)

Love/Relationships

b)

How great Communism is

c)

Hidden political messages

d)

Nothing

19.

Which of the following are true about Chinese Pop music?

a)

They use instruments only found in China

b)

They're about love and relationships

c)

They use instruments similar to American Pop music

d)

They have political meanings

20.

Chinese Opera singing focused on which of the following qualities?

a)

Low notes

b)

Singing in foreign languages

c)

High notes

d)

Vocal Growls