Music: An Appreciation, 10th Edition (Kamien)

Chapter 1: Music in Nonwestern Cultures

Multiple Choice Quiz

1
Nonwestern music is most often transmitted
A)orally from parent to child or teacher to student.
B)through the imitation of radio broadcasts.
C)through music notation.
D)All answers are correct.
2
Nonwestern musical scales often contain ________ tones.
A)eight or nine
B)five, six, or seven
C)three or four
D)as many as twelve
3
A nasal, intense, and strained tone is cultivated by singers from
A)Peru.
B)Siberia.
C)the middle east and north Africa.
D)sub-Saharan Africa.
4
Which of the following statements is not true?
A)Music of the nonwestern world is too varied to allow easy generalizations.
B)Nonwestern traditions have inspired much twentieth-century western music.
C)Improvisation is nonexistent in nonwestern music.
D)Some composers in the nonwestern world combine traditional elements with western forms
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