1) Discuss the importance of timbre in traditional Japanese music and the instruments most often associated with its performance.
2) Who are the pioneers of electronic music and what developments have taken place in electronics in relation to music in your lifetime?
3) Explain the difference between monophony, polyphony, heterophony, and homophony and provide a clear definition of each.
4) Discuss all you know about modes and modal scale construction.
5) Discuss the concepts of consonance and dissonance in Western classical music.
6) What is one of the most common musical structures or forms that is found in many diverse cultures all over the world? Explain your choice and give many examples.
7) Explain the concept of the circle of fifths and it relationship to scales and keys.
8) Discuss the Arabic taqasim.