West African music

What is Monophonic?

• Is a melodic instrument

• Created spontaneously but based around the scale or patterns of the piece

• Single sound/voice

Call and reponse is when...

• Something is created spontaneously but based around the scale or patterns of the piece

• A leader sings/plays a line and is answered by a chorus

• Repeated pattern (pitched or just rhythm)

Cross-rhythm means...

• Repeated pattern (pitched or just rhythm)

• 5 pitches in a scale

• There are two conflicting rhythms are heard together

A Pentatonic scale has how many pitches?

• 3

• 5

• 7

Ostinato is a compositional devise used in Western music as well as African, but what does it mean?

• Repeated pattern (pitched or just rhythm)

• The effect produced when two conflicting rhythms are heard together

• Melody and accompaniment OR making a chord but moving the same

Homophonic is a texture in music but what does it mean?

• Single sound/voice

• Multiple sounds/melodies

• Melody and accompaniment

Polyphony is a word that can be used to describe the texture of a piece or section of music. What is the correct explaination of it?

• Single sound/voice

• Multiple sounds/melodies

• Melody and accompaniment

To improvise you are...

• A leader who sings/plays a line and is answered by a chorus

• Creating a melody or rhythm spontaneously but based around the scale or patterns of the piece

• Single voice/sound

The drum instrument in West African music is called a...

• Djembe

• Shaker

• Balafon

• Cow bell

Is this an 'ostinato' or a 'cross-rhythm'?

• Ostinato

• Cross-rhythm