Instruments
The didgeridoo is an instrument found in what country?
Australia
Urtin duu or "long songs" are found in what music?
Mongolian
What music is closely associated with Carnival?
Brazilian samba
What terrible historical practice led to the creation of samba music?
slavery
Which country, whose music we studied, has the world's coldest capital city?
Mongolia
The kora is an instrument found in what region?
West Africa or The Gambia
Kumbengo and birimintingo are sections of music found in what tradition?
West African kora.
What type of belief system relating to nature factors heavily into Aboriginal and Mongolian music (and to a lesser extent Native American)?
animism
What culture, whose music we studied, is considered the oldest continuous culture in the world?
Australian Aborigine
Which state is bigger -
Hawaii or Massachusetts?
Massachusetts (just barely)
What do you call the largest drums in a samba bateria?
surdu(s)
Mele is the genre of poetry that is used in music from what tradition?
Hawaiian drum-dance chant
There are two social functions that we have encountered again and again in musical traditions of the world. One is religious or spiritual function. What is the other?
Storytelling / documentation of history
Name a non-European influence that led to Spanish flamenco music.
Gypsy, Indian dance, Islamic vocal music.
Brazil is the world’s largest exporter
of what product?
Coffee
How many strings does a Morin Khuur have?
two
What do you call sung "words" that have no meaning?
vocables
What tradition that we've studied is most likely to be "personal" as opposed to "communal" or broadly cultural in its expression and lyrical content?
Spanish flamenco
Why did we study two varieties of Indian music?
Hindustani music was influenced by invaders from the north. Carnatic in the south was left more or less untouched.
Why is the kangaroo featured on Australian army uniforms?
They can't walk backwards
pahu or kilu
What word is used to describe the melodic framework in Indian music?
raga
What word is used to describe the spiritual universe of the Aborigines?
Dreamtime
Who was the first European to reach Hawaii?
Captain James Cook
What is the national animal of India?
Bengal Tiger