WorksheetsAfrican and Latin-American Music
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
African instruments are quite complex and intricate and sound similar to what instruments?
American
European
Mexican
Chinese
What type of music a maracatu is?
Sacred
Secular
Sacred & Secular
None of the choices
African vocal music uses different techniques such as:
I. Complex soft melisma
II. Principles of Candomble
III. Complex hard melisma
IV. Yodel
I & II
II & IV
III & IV
II & III
West Africa: Talking drums, Central and West Africa: ____________________.
Ngoma
Double bell
Water drum
Kalimba
It is the most universal characteristic of Sub-Saharan music, in contrast to polyphony.
Polyrhythm
Homophony
Heterophony
Kashaka
The notes of these instruments are not organized in the usual single linear order from bass to treble, except
one.
Bougarabou
Kalimba
Mbira
Dousn'gouni
A vocal form of African music combining the basics of rhythm and blues and gospel music.
Blues
Soul
Spiritual
Call and Response
African vocal form music which is naturally in a twelve-bar order.
Blues
Soul
Spiritual
Call and Response
A vocal form of African music which is a direct response from the first phrase; it is a commentary response.
Blues
Soul
Spiritual
Call and Response
There are different types of jazz music:
I. Ragtime
II. Big band
III. Bebop
IV. Rock jazz
I, II & IV
I, III, & IV
II, III, & IV
I, II, III, & IV
A combination of beat rock with the inventive nature of jazz.
Smooth jazz
Rock jazz
Bebop
Ragtime
Music genre originating in Jamaica in the late 1960s
Reggae
Salsa
Paso doble
Bossa nova
Developed in the U.S. in the 1920s and named after its inventor
Cumbia
Salsa
Foxtrot
Jazz
A piece of Spanish and Portuguese light music, with a binary rhythm.
Rumba
Cumbia
Salsa
Paso doble
A dance that evolved in Buenos Aires at the end of the 19th century.
Salsa
Tango
Cumbia
Rumba
A commercial form of jazz fusion in the early 1980s.
Smooth jazz
Bebop
Rock jazz
Ragtime
Evolved from the Cuban son and other genres as pop music.
Rumba
Salsa
Tango
Cumbia
Derived from the mambo of Cuba and imported from Congo.
Tango
Bossa nova
Cha-cha-cha
Foxtrot
Brazilian music genre popularized in the 1950s and 1960s.
Paso doble
Foxtrot
Cha-cha-cha
Bossa nova
A music genre popular all throughout Latin America.
Cumbia
Salsa
Tango
Rumba
