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Music of China

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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

a)

Chinese Scale

b)

Major Scale

c)

Pentatonic Scale

d)

Quadratic Scale

2.

What Chinese instrument only has 2 strings?

a)

Pipa

b)

Yangqin

c)

Erhu

d)

Sheng

3.

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

a)

Yangqin

b)

Pipa

c)

Erhu

d)

Dizi

4.

What instrument is this?

a)

Pipa

b)

Yangqin

c)

Suona

d)

Erhu

5.

What instrument is this?

a)

Pipa

b)

Yangqin

c)

Erhu

d)

Dizi

6.

What instrument is this?

a)

Pipa

b)

Yangqin

c)

Erhu

d)

Dizi

7.

What instrument is this?

a)

Pipa

b)

Sheng

c)

Erhu

d)

Dizi

8.

Which philosopher had a great affect on early Chinese music?

a)

Confucious

b)

Plato

c)

Sun Tzu

d)

Mencius

9.

This is an ancient Chinese instrument with 13 to 21 strings stretched over individuals bridges.

(a)  

10.
What religion was spread to China on the Silk Road?
a)
Christianity
b)
Buddhism
c)
Islam
d)
Hinduism
11.
Trade route that stretched from western China to southern Asia
a)
filial piety
b)
Silk Road
c)
Great Wall
d)
Anyang
12.
Line of rulers from the same family
a)
Legalism
b)
long Chinese line
c)
filial piety
d)
dynasty
13.
Which river is in China?
a)
Green
b)
Mississippi
c)
Yellow
d)
Himilaya
14.

What is the bow for Erhu made of?

a)

Silk

b)

Steel

c)

Horse hair

d)

String

15.

What is the material for most Chinese Traditional instrument and their basis for instrumental tuning?

(a)  

16.

Which belief of Confucius is much connected to music?

a)

amusement

b)

purify one's thoughts

c)

dispel unrest

d)

teaching

17.

The note which is the central pitch in a 12-tone system.

a)

Forest Bell

b)

Answering Bell

c)

Great Bell

d)

Yellow Bell

18.

The Chinese mythical bird.

a)

Fenhuang

b)

Huangzhong

c)

Wusheng

d)

Lu

19.

The basis for the pentatonic scale, a scale common in Chinese music, and often associated with “oriental” sounds.

a)

Fenhuang

b)

Wusheng

c)

Huangzhong

d)

Lu

20.

The national opera of China. (1 word answer)

(a)