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MICHAELBAKAN
WORLD MUSIC: TRADITIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS

QUIZ QUESTIONS ANSWER KEY

Chapter Four
1. Pitch is most closely related to
c. frequency
2. We can apply letter names (A, B, C, etc.) to notes in Western music if they have
a. determinate pitch
3. An ascending and/or descending series of notes of dierent pitch is
b. a scale
4. When two pitches sound the same, but one is higher than the other, we say they are
a. an octave apart
5. Playing all 12 pitches within an octave on the piano from low to high yields what is known as the
_______ scale.
c. chromatic
6. The pentatonic scale contains ________ pitches per octave.
a. five
7. The main dierence between a major scale and a minor scale is
b. the interval between the second and third scale degrees is smaller in the minor scale
8. A well-known scale influenced by African scales is the ________ scale.
c. blues
9. Moving from one key to another is called
a. modulation
10. The number of distinct, recognized pitches within an octave is __________ in Indian and Middle
Eastern pitch systems than in Western music.
b. larger
11. When we describe notes as staccato or legato we are talking about
b. articulation
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12. Ornamentation refers to

d. decorating the the main pitches of a melody
13. A mode may be defined by
d. all of the above
14. When two or more dierent pitches are sound simultaneously this yields a
b. chord
15. When each note of a melody becomes the basis of its own chord, this is called
c. harmonization
16. The distance in pitch from the lowest to the highest note refers to melodic
a. range
17. The overall shape of a melody defines its melodic
b. contour
18. In Western music the first scale degree is called the
c. tonic
19. The distance between any two notes is called an
b. interval
20. A chord that is performed one note aer the other rather than with all the notes sounded
simultaneously is
d. an arpeggio
21. Since the slendro scale of Indonesian gamelan music has five pitches per octave, we know that
a. it is one type of pentatonic scale
22. If you were to sing the first three notes of the melody of Mary Had a Little Lamb (E-D-C) for an
AreAre musician and ask him about it, he would probably say that
b. the melodic direction was ascending

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