WorksheetsIntroduction to Ethnomusicology
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 15mins
The "study of signs and systems of signs, including music" refers to what discipline?
Syntax
Semantics
Semiotics
Semiology
Sociology
What is the process where the creator of the music encodes meanings and emotions into the "neutral" composition or performance
Emic
Poietic
Poiemic
Aesthetic
What is the process of interpretation listening to a particular music
Esthesic
Etic
Emic
Ethnocentrism
Ethnocentrism assumes which of the following from another cultures values
One's own's culture is 'normal'
Other cultures are "strange"
Other cultures are interesting
Other cultures are "exotic"
In Western music, classical usually denotes which of the statement/s?
Championed amongst the elite
Considered high art
Written where there is a surplus in wealth to release musicians from providing their own food and shelter
Musicians spend their time practising their art and thinking up complex and challenging ways to perform music
It is the music that has a lower value than classical music, and created and performed by people of modest means. It requires less rehearsal to be performed proficiently and is learned through observation. What label best fit this description
Neo-Classical
Folk
Popular
Ethnic
What is the term to mean the quality of musical sound?
Timbre
Medium
Pitch
Range
What is the measurement of relative loudness and softness of sound?
(a)
What type of chordophone is this?
Board Zither
Tube Zither
Lute
Harp
What is the bar or a ridge found on chordophones that enables performers to produce different melodic pitches with consistent frequency levels
Frets
Bridge
Plectrum
Bow
What are the comb-like metal prongs called in instruments like the Mbira
(a)
What is the Sachs-Hornbostel classification for this instrument
Aerophone
Chordophone
Idiophone
Membranophone
What is a 'pitch'?
A tuning system
a tone's specific frequency level
A length duration of a note
words to a meloy
What is the differences between interval and range
An interval is a set of pitches while range is the distance between pitches
An interval is a musical idea while a range is a set of pitches
An interval is the distance between two pitches while range is the span of pitches in a given instrument or voice is capable of producing
An interval is a musical shape while a range is a relationship of sound durations
What is the term to denote a continuous or repeating sound?
Drone
Contour
Rhythm
Melody
What is the term to mean embellishments or decorations that are applied to a melody and thus modifying the original musical idea
melodic contour
ornamentation
text setting
accent
What is the term that refers to simultaneous variations of the same line of music?
Monophony
polyphony
homophony
heterophony
What is the difference between a beat and tempo?
A beat is a regular pulsation; tempo is the speed of the beats.
A beat is a musical note; tempo is the emphasized beat.
True or False: Etic is the perspective of a cultural outsider
True
False
Which is the following statements clearly states the role of 'use' in music
The ways in which music is employed in human society
requires deep-level cultural knowledge and can entail much interpretation
it is established in spiritual rituals
established verifiable truth
What is the generic name to call the tool used to play the shamisen
Plectrum
Beater
Paddle
Comb
What is the term to mean flutes that are played sideways
Inverse
Transverse
Imburse
Reverse
What is the term to coin aerophones flutes that have vessel shape bodies akin to the ocarinas?
(a)
Instruments like serunai is considered what kind of reed instrument
Single reed
Double reed
No reed
Free reed
What is the shape of this drum?
(a)
