
Influential Elements of African Music
Authored by Julie Pelligrino-Hartman
Arts
9th - 12th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The presentation of a steady rhythmic pulse at a consistent tempo.
Unique Timbres
Improvisation
Swing Feeling
Motor Rhythm
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A religious song of a kind associated with Black Christians of the southern US, and thought to derive from the combination of European hymns and African musical elements by enslaved Black people.
Spiritual
Field Holler
Work Song
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Displacing regular accents in music by emphasizing notes that don’t align with the beat/pulse/motor rhythm.
Swing Feeling
Blue Notes
Syncopation
Motor Rhythm
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
"Flattened"/lowered tones of the scale, usually the 3rd and 7th scale degrees.
Unique Timbres
Improvisation
Syncopation
Blue Notes
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A steady rhythmic song, utilizing call and response between task leader and other workers.
Spiritual
Field Holler
Work Song
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Basic feeling of long-short-long-short, instead of equal subdivision of note values.
Swing Feeling
Syncopation
Improvisation
Motor Rhythm
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The individual character of timbre in both vocal and instrumental music.
Blue Notes
Swing Feeling
Unique Timbres
Improvisation
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