Chapter 2 World Music

What term refers to a form of expression within a musical genre?

• Genre

• Musical Style

• Timbre

• Rhythm

What is the name of music intended for a wide audience,

featuring prominent melodies and simple chordal accompaniment?

• Traditional Music

• Music Culture

• Popular Music

• Classical Music

What term designates a particular type of music with a distinctive form or sound?

• Genre

• Timbre

• Rhythm

• Musical Style

What is the distinct tonal quality of an instrument or voice, which is clearly heard identified by the ear?

• Music Culture

• Rhythm

• Genre

• Timbre

What is the term that refers to the performance practices, means, traditions, uses, and beliefs about music of a group of people, either from a specific place or time?

• Music Culture

• Musical Style

• Traditional Music

• Classical Music

What is the oldest and most prevalent category of music?

• Popular Music

• Traditional Music

• Music Culture

• Classical Musical

What term means the way the beat or pulses in a musical selection are organized?

• Timbre

• Rhythm

• Musical Style

• Genre

What is a style of "art" music that stands apart from traditional or popular music?

• Popular Music

• Classical Music

• Traditional Music

• Timbre

Music written during the Classical period for small ensembles is known as ________.

• Traditional Music

• Classical Music

• Popular Music

• Chamber Music

A scholar who studies the music of different cultural groups is called a(n) _________.

• Musicologist

• Archeologist

• Anthropologist

• ethnomusicologist