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Southeast Asian Music

Total questions: 34

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the popular form of music in Indonesia?

a)

Pinpeat Orchestra

b)

Piphat Ensemble

c)

Gamelan Orchestra

d)

Hsaing Waing

2.

Gamelan orchestra is the most popular form of music in Indonesia. What would be the result when the musicians step over the instruments?

a)

possess with power

b)

shows disrespect

c)

to have supernatural powers

d)

none of the above

3.

What would you use to create an improvised Kendang instrument in order to play the beat in Gamelan orchestra?

a)

can

b)

stone

c)

plastic container

d)

glass bottle

4.

Analyze the musical scale used in Asia. If Octave is eight-tone scale and Slendro is five-tone scale, how many scales are used in Pelog?

a)

four-tone

b)

seven-tone

c)

eight-tone

d)

none of the above

5.

What is the time signature of Indonesian folksong “Si Patokaan”

a)

3/4

b)

4/4

c)

2/4

d)

6/8

6.

Which of the following common musical scale used in Southeast Asia?

a)

Octatave

b)

Hexatonic

c)

Pentatonic

d)

Monotonic

7.

How would you classify musical instrument which produces sound primarily by way of vibrating stretched membrane?

a)

Membranophone

b)

Chordophone

c)

Aerophone

d)

Idiophone

8.

Southeast Asian music is always part of their court dances, masked plays, shadow plays, and religious ceremonies.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

9.

The Piphat is a Cambodian musical ensemble or an orchestra that usually accompanies ceremonial music of the royal courts and temples.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

10.

Cambodian court music is roughly similar to that of Java, Indonesia. They feature choruses with large orchestras based on struck keys and gongs.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

11.

Gamelan orchestra is the most popular form of music in Myanmar.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

12.

Pinpeat ensemble is used to accompany specific forms of traditional Thai drama such as the large shadow puppet theatre (nang yai) and the khon dance drama.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

13.

What is the most popular music of Indonesia?

a)

Gamelan

b)

Gerong

c)

Pesidhen

d)

Kerok

14.

What Cambodian musical ensemble or an orchestra that usually accompanies ceremonial music of the royal courts and temples?

a)

Gamelan

b)

Pinpeat

c)

Piphat

d)

Samphor

15.

How the musical instruments categorized in Myanmar?

a)

Through sounds

b)

Through classification

c)

Through performance

d)

Through prayer

16.

What type of musical ensembles of Malaysia is similar to the kulintang of the Philippines, Brunei and Indonesia?

a)

Piphat

b)

Samphor

c)

Gamelan

d)

Agung

17.

Indonesia is a Southeast Asian nation made up of thousands of volcanic islands

a)

True

b)

False

18.

Balinese gamelan is more on gongs than metallophones

a)

True

b)

False

19.

1. What is the name of an orchestra that performs the ceremonial music of the royal courts and temples of Cambodia?

a)

A. Angkor Wat

b)

B. Oneat

c)

C. Pinpeat

d)

D. Samphor

20.

4. is a type of singing performed by one or more singers.

a)

A. Instrumental Music

b)

B. Choral Singing

c)

C. Duet

d)

D. Vocal Music

21.

5. It is the music intended to be performed by a musical instrument or group of instruments.

a)

A. Vocal Music

b)

B. Band

c)

C. Ensemble

d)

D. Instrumental Music

22.

9. What is the traditional musical ensemble of Indonesia?

a)

A. Gamelan

b)

B. Kertok

c)

C. Mahori

d)

D. Pinpeat

23.

10. Which Malaysian ensemble performs choral singing with or without instrumental accompaniment?

a)

A. Kertok

b)

B. Dikir Barat

c)

C. Silat Melayu

d)

D. Agung and Kulintang

24.

It is a traditional Indonesian Folk Song. It comes from the Ambon in the Moluccas, but has spread found in other parts of the Indonesian Archipelago and beyond.

a)

Rasa Sayang

b)

Burung Kakatua

c)

Chan Mali Chan

d)

Loi Loi Krathong

25.

It literally "loving feeling is a folk song in Malay language. It is from Maluku, Indonesia, and popular in Malaysia, Singapore and Philippines.

a)

Rasa Sayang

b)

Burung Kakatua

c)

Chan Mali Chan

d)

Loi krathong

26.

The element of "TIME" in music.

a)

Melody

b)

Harmony

c)

Dynamics

d)

Rhythm

27.

It is a Southeast Asian nation nation made up of Thousands of volcanic islands, is home to hundreds of ethnic groups speaking many different languages.

a)

Thailand

b)

Cambodia

c)

Indonesia

d)

Japan

28.

Which of the following faith categories is NOT legal in Indonesia?

a)

Judaism

b)

Buddhism

c)

Islam

d)

Protestantism

e)

Hinduism

29.

It is the traditional ensemble music of Java


And Bali in Indonesia, made up predominantly of


percussive instruments.

a)

Kamelan

b)

Gamelan

c)

Saron

d)

Rebab

30.

Which of the following countries does not belong in Southeast Asia?

a)

Japan

b)

Philippines

c)

Indonesia

d)

Thailand

31.

It is a classification of musical instruments which is known as membranophones.

a)
b)
c)
d)
32.

It is a classification of musical instruments which is known as Chordophones.

a)
b)
c)
d)
33.

The Gamelan ensemble is a famous music from which Southeast Asian country.

a)

Burma

b)

Phippines

c)

Indonesia

d)

Malaysia

34.

The gong ageng is the largest gong in the Gamelan

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE