Midterm Exam Review

A greater respect for the lifestyles, traditions, values and arts of nations and cultures can be achieved through

• a global perspective

• assimilation

• a label

• ethnic minorities

An American style of music that developed from the merging of the songs and dances of Anglo-Americans with those of Creoles is called

• New Age

• alternative

• folk

• jazz

Most of America's popular and classical music is based on the traditions of

• Africa

• Native Americans

• western Europe

• the British Isles

Native American music was deemed primitive, and thus unworthy, by European settlers.

• True

• False

The process by which a culture assimilates, blends with, or adapts to the characteristics and practices of other cultures is called culturalization.

• True

• False

Many composers and performers recognize the importance of as a compositional technique, rather than as only a rest from sound.

• acoustics

• silence

• notation

• expression

The science of sound and the physical basis of music is called

• notation

• aesthetics

• expression

• acoustics

The music of the western European concert tradition is referred to as

• classical

• artistic

• expressive

• symphonic

All sounds have

• loudness, rhythm, duration, and meter.

• pitch, duration, loudness, and tone quality.

• melody, harmony, rhythm, and texture.

• contour, tonality, loudness, and duration.

The rate of speed of sound waves is perceived as

• loudness

• pitch

• tempo

• duration