Vocab Ch 4 part 1 quiz

What is the term for people living outside their historic homeland who maintain memories of, and attachments to, their place of origin?

• Oral transmission

• Diaspora

• Maqam

• Muyu

What is music transmitted without writing called?

• Written transmission

• Fixed form

• Oral transmission

• Cadence

What does written transmission refer to in music?

• Music transmitted orally

• Use of a system of music writing

• A musical gesture sliding from one pitch to another

• A genre of traditional Chinese vocal music

What is Muyu?

• A Middle Eastern lute

• A genre of traditional Chinese vocal music

• A musical gesture sliding from one pitch to another

• A system governing pitch and melody in Arab music

What is a melodic or harmonic figure that creates a sense of repose or resolution called?

• Glissando

• Cadence

• Maqam

• Mawwal

What is the musical gesture that entails sliding from one pitch to another?

• Cadence

• Glissando

• Fixed form

• Maqam

What is a musical form in which aspects of its content are predetermined?

• Fixed form

• Mawwal

• Syllabic text setting

• Melismatic text setting

What is vocal music in which each syllable of text is sung to one pitch called?

• Melismatic text setting

• Syllabic text setting

• Mawwal

• Muyu

What is vocal music in which each syllable of the text is sung to many pitches called?

• Syllabic text setting

• Melismatic text setting

• Fixed form

• Cadence

What is a traditional Arab song that alternates sections in free and regular rhythm?

• Maqam

• Mawwal

• 'ud

• Qanun