Response to the following multiple choice questions and True/False:
Question 1. Forced migration may occur because of all the following factors EXCEPT:
famine.
conquest.
slavery.
war.
economic opportunity.
Question 2. Many features of the song Come to Hue, Come are adapted from a Vietnamese:
work song, called a ho.
long song, called muyu.
lullaby, called a ru.
colloquial song, called a mawwal.
chamber music composition, called Ca Hue.
Question 3. The mawwalStanding on the Shore is an example of what type of texture?
Monophonic
Homophonic
Heterophonic
Polyphonic
Polyrhythmic
Question 4. Which of the following factors is a variable that can influence the sounds, settings, and significances of immigrant musical life?
The date of an individual's immigration
Whether the migration was forced or voluntary
The immigrant's age, gender, and ethnic or religious identity
The immigrant's economic situation and educational background
All of the above
Question 5. The migration of many people to North and South America in search of new religious and economic opportunities is best described as:
chain migration.
voluntary migration.
forced migration.
temporary sojourn.
None of the above
Question 6. Which of the following was a highly influential musical repertory that formed as African American slaves were converted to New World Christianity?
Blues
Ballads
Laments
Spirituals
Field hollers
Question 7. A muyu, such as Uncle Ng Comes to the Gold Mountain, usually includes all of the following musical elements EXCEPT:
vocables.
strophic form.
syllabic text setting.
distinct musical sections based on the story line.
cadences shaped by the linguistic tone at the end of a poetic line.
Question 8. Which of the following songs best exemplifies music's ability to recount in detail a modern immigration process?
Who Is Walking on the Endless Road
Standing on the Shore
A Thousand Miles from Home
Uncle Ng Comes to the Gold Mountain
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
Question 9. The principal plucked chordophone in the Arab world is the:
tanpura.
violin.
sitar.
‘ud.
ho.
Question 10. The dantranh is a Vietnamese:
monochord.
two-stringed lute.
two-stringed fiddle.
sixteen-stringed zither.
double-reedaerophone.
Question 11. Which of the following statements about the mawwalStanding on the Shore is true?
It incorporates vocables into many lines of the text.
It includes glissandi in the cadences ending each section.
It comments on the pain of migration by using formal language.
It narrates in detail the various stages of one man's migration experience.
It uses the image of waves to symbolize communication with the ancestral homeland.
Question 12. If you sang a line of an African American spiritual alone and the rest of your class answered you as a chorus, you would be performing in which of the following styles?
Biphonic
Polyrhythmic
Call-and-response
Heterophonic
Fugal
Question 13. In the film, The Language You Cry In, tracing the song's origin was just a matter of identifying and translating the Mende language.
True
False
Question 14. Music can reenact the migration process.
True
False
Question 15. According to the film, The Language You Cry In, another cultural exchange occuring between the peoples of Georgia and Sierra Leone due to the translatlantic slave trade was knowledge of rice growing and fishing.
True
False
Question 16. Chinese immigration to the United States around 1850 was a forced migration caused by a protracted Chinese civil war.
True
False
Question 17. Oral transmission occurs when music is transmitted from person to person through hearing music performed.
True
False
Question 18. In the film, The Language You Cry In, the Gullah children's song from Georgia was originally a funeral song from Sierra Leone.
True
False
Question 19. Match each item to the correct description below.
A trapezoidal zither used in Middle Eastern music
A Vietnamese work song performed by laborers
A southeastern Chinese song that addresses the concerns of everyday life
A Vietnamese monochord
A traditional Arab song that alternates between free rhythms and regular rhythms
1. qanun
2. danbau
3. mawwal
4. muyu
5. ho
Question 20. Match each item to the correct description below.
A melodic or harmonic resolution at the end of a musical phrase
A slide in pitch
A second melody that competes with the main melody
Alternation between soloist and chorus
A shift from one scale or key to another
1. modulation
2. glissando
3. countermelody
4. call-and-response
5. cadence
Reference book " soundscapes: exploring music in a changing world", write by Kay Kaufman Shelemay.