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African and Latin-American Music

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

African instruments are quite complex and intricate and sound similar to what instruments?

a)

American

b)

European

c)

Mexican

d)

Chinese

2.

What type of music a maracatu is?

a)

Sacred

b)

Secular

c)

Sacred & Secular

d)

None of the choices

3.

African vocal music uses different techniques such as:


I. Complex soft melisma

II. Principles of Candomble

III. Complex hard melisma

IV. Yodel

a)

I & II

b)

II & IV

c)

III & IV

d)

II & III

4.

West Africa: Talking drums, Central and West Africa: ____________________.

a)

Ngoma

b)

Double bell

c)

Water drum

d)

Kalimba

5.

It is the most universal characteristic of Sub-Saharan music, in contrast to polyphony.

a)

Polyrhythm

b)

Homophony

c)

Heterophony

d)

Kashaka

6.

The notes of these instruments are not organized in the usual single linear order from bass to treble, except

one.

a)

Bougarabou

b)

Kalimba

c)

Mbira

d)

Dousn'gouni

7.

A vocal form of African music combining the basics of rhythm and blues and gospel music.

a)

Blues

b)

Soul

c)

Spiritual

d)

Call and Response

8.

African vocal form music which is naturally in a twelve-bar order.

a)

Blues

b)

Soul

c)

Spiritual

d)

Call and Response

9.

A vocal form of African music which is a direct response from the first phrase; it is a commentary response.

a)

Blues

b)

Soul

c)

Spiritual

d)

Call and Response

10.

There are different types of jazz music:


I. Ragtime

II. Big band

III. Bebop

IV. Rock jazz

a)

I, II & IV

b)

I, III, & IV

c)

II, III, & IV

d)

I, II, III, & IV

11.

A combination of beat rock with the inventive nature of jazz.

a)

Smooth jazz

b)

Rock jazz

c)

Bebop

d)

Ragtime

12.

Music genre originating in Jamaica in the late 1960s

a)

Reggae

b)

Salsa

c)

Paso doble

d)

Bossa nova

13.

Developed in the U.S. in the 1920s and named after its inventor

a)

Cumbia

b)

Salsa

c)

Foxtrot

d)

Jazz

14.

A piece of Spanish and Portuguese light music, with a binary rhythm.

a)

Rumba

b)

Cumbia

c)

Salsa

d)

Paso doble

15.

A dance that evolved in Buenos Aires at the end of the 19th century.

a)

Salsa

b)

Tango

c)

Cumbia

d)

Rumba

16.

A commercial form of jazz fusion in the early 1980s.

a)

Smooth jazz

b)

Bebop

c)

Rock jazz

d)

Ragtime

17.

Evolved from the Cuban son and other genres as pop music.

a)

Rumba

b)

Salsa

c)

Tango

d)

Cumbia

18.

Derived from the mambo of Cuba and imported from Congo.

a)

Tango

b)

Bossa nova

c)

Cha-cha-cha

d)

Foxtrot

19.

Brazilian music genre popularized in the 1950s and 1960s.

a)

Paso doble

b)

Foxtrot

c)

Cha-cha-cha

d)

Bossa nova

20.

A music genre popular all throughout Latin America.

a)

Cumbia

b)

Salsa

c)

Tango

d)

Rumba