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Southeast Asian Music

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

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.

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

4.

Thailand folk music consists of simple songs with simple melodic lines. What is the main focus in singing of Thai songs?

a)

style in singing

b)

articulation of the text

c)

five-tone scale

d)

extensively singing

5.

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

a)

Membranophone

b)

Chordophone

c)

Aerophone

d)

Idiophone

6.

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

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

7.

What instrument is this?

a)

Khene

b)

Saung gauk

c)

Agung

d)

Tambor

8.

Where does khene come from?

a)

Laos

b)

Malaysia

c)

Thailand

d)

Cambodia

9.

Hsaing Waing is the musical ensemble of Myanmar.

a)

True

b)

False

c)

Maybe

d)

None of the Above

10.

A country from Southeast Asia that has never been ruled by a Western power and it is also called as Land of the Free.

a)

Cambodia

b)

Indonesia

c)

Thailand

d)

Myanmar

11.

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

a)

Angkor Wat

b)

Oneat

c)

Pinpeat

d)

Samphor

12.

What musical ensemble of Malaysia utilizes small, horizontally-laid gongs accompanied by larger, suspended gongs and drums used in funerals and weddings?

a)

Kertok

b)

Dikir Barat

c)

Silat Melayu

d)

Agung and Kulintang

13.

What ensemble in Thailand is traditionally played by women?

a)

Krueang Sai

b)

Mahori

c)

Morlam

d)

Piphat

14.

What do you call the five equidistant tones in an octave?

a)

Irama

b)

Kendang

c)

Peloq

d)

Slendro

15.

Which orchestra in Singapore plays ethnic music?

a)

Singapore court music

b)

Singapore religious music

c)

Singapore Chinese Orchestra

d)

Singapore Symphony Orchestra