WorksheetsPolyrhythm and Minimalism and Time Signature
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 17mins
What instrument is most popular with African?
Piano
Horns
Drums
Organ
Which of the following is not a tone on the African percusssion?
Bass sound
Slap sound
Centre sound
Tone sound
Rhythms in African music that are repeated over and over again are called__________
Dotted rhythm
Cyclic Rhythm
Polyrhythm
Simple rhythm
A ___________ can be achieved by playing different rhythms at the same time.
Polyrhyhtm
Cyclic rhythm
Dotted rhytm
Simple rhythm
Which of the following is not a type of art?
Impressionism
Expressionism
Minimalism
Depressionism
Which of the following is not a feature of African Music?
Repititive
Cyclic Rhythm
Polyrhythm
Heterometer
The main feature of minimalist music is a limited number of short, melodic, rhythmic and harmonic patterns called ________.
Motif
Theme
Texture
Tempo
________ Composed 'Vexations'
Eric Satie
Mike Oldfield
Steve Reich
Danny Young
Name the four American Composers that made up the Monotonous School
(a)
________ wrote 'Tubular Bells' in ______.
Mike Oldfield, 1972
Steve Reich, 1894
Erik Satie 1989
Ben Steven, 1500
Mention two instruments used in Mike Oldfields piece titled 'Tubular bells'
(a)
Which of the following regions did not influence the music of the monotonous school?
Chinese
West African
Indian
Balinese Gamelan
This type of art is called (a) .
What is polyrhythm ?
Singing without music
A drum popular in west africa
When you had more than 1 rhythm been play at the same time
when someone say first and the other repeat
Which culture does polyrhythm came from ?
African music
American music
Thailand music
Cambodian music
Which of these is a West African Country?
USA
Brazil
Mali
When multiple rhythms are played at the same time in a song is called
Lots of rhythms
multiple melodies
polyrhythms
What parts of your hand do you use to play drums?
wrist
fingers
palms
elbows
This type of drum is called
Djembe
Bongo
Ngoma
What are the three sounds played on a djembe?
slap
bass
tone
hit
The form in music where one group plays a rhythm and another group plays a different rhythm back is called
echo drumming
Repetitive Drumming
Call and Response
In which period is Minimal music?
Baroque
Classical
Romantic
20th Century
What does the bottom number mean in time signatures?
How many beats per measure.
What numbers are going into the song.
What note gets 1 beat.
The speed of the song.
What does the top number mean?
6 measures in the whole song
there are 6 beats in each measure
the song can only play 6 beats
What does the bottom number mean?
the eighth note gets the beat
it is 1/8 of the song
It completes the fraction
How many beats does this note get in 6/8?
2
1
3
0
How many beats does this note get in 6/8 time?
0
1
2
3
