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MICHAELBAKAN
WORLD MUSIC: TRADITIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS

QUIZ QUESTIONS ANSWER KEY

Chapter Six
1._____ is the element of music that pertains to the large-scale dimensions of musical organization.
a. Form
2. _____ is the element of music that pertains to how the dierent vocal and/or instrumental parts in
a piece of music relate to one another.
b. Texture
3. The term monophonic refers to
a. single-line textures
4. _______ describes music in which two or more distinct parts are performed simultaneously.
c. Polyphony
5. Descriptions of drumming-based music of West Africa aspolyrhythmic
c. are controversial, since there are both ethnomusicologists and West African musicians who contend
that the term does not accurately account for the musics texture
6. One of the simplest types of polyphonic textures is
a. a melody accompanied by a drone
7. Harmonized textures occur when
c. notes of dierent pitch occur together to form chords on the successive notes of a melody
8. Javanese gamelan music prominently features _____________ textures.
a. multiple-melody
9. The many layers of sound in West African drum ensemble music are oen described as exhibiting a
_________ texture.
c. polyrhythmic
10. When a single melodic or rhythmic line is divided note by note between two or more performers
this is called
b. interlocking

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11. Call-and-response is
a. a back-and-forth alternation between dierent parts
12. __________ textures are created when two or more short, repeated figures are stacked one atop
the other.
b. Layered ostinato
13. The 12-bar blues is best described as a _________ form.
c. cyclic
14. Verse-chorus form
a. is one of the most popular musical forms in many cultures
15. When several musicians perform the same sequence of pitches in the same rhythm it is called
a. unison
16. A short figure repeated over and over again is called
a. an ostinato

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