Exam 3: Significance: Musics Meaning in Everyday Life

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MATCHING Match each item to the correct description below. -A scale degree within a raga

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The music that is played to celebrate a quinceañera is:

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Some of the musical characteristics of ________ are that they are often slow,are set in a higher range than other songs,include much repetition,and have vocables in their texts.

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On the Scottish Highland bagpipe,the player blows directly into the:

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In Latino communities,a quinceañera is a celebration to mark the passage of teenage girls into adulthood.

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We tend to align our bodily motion during a musical experience because of what psychologists call:

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The most appropriate genre of bagpipe music for a funeral is a:

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If you were playing an Irish jig on the uilleann pipes,which type of embellishment would you probably use to ornament the melody?

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Syllables,like "araro," that are sung but do not convey literal meaning are called ________.

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The song Amba Nilambari uses adi tala,a time cycle in which beats are grouped:

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In Mexican and Mexican American communities,________ bands perform at quinceañeras,baptisms,and weddings to help celebrate important life-cycle events.

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Match each item to the correct description below. -A Scottish vocal tradition of imitating bagpipe music by singing vocables

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The term mariachi can refer to one musician,a type of musical ensemble,or a style of music.

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A pibroch like Lament for Mary MacLeod uses which of the following forms?

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Khoomii singing that imitates the sounds of the natural environment conveys meaning by association.

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The Indian system for organizing melodies according to their pitch content and their associations is called:

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A ________ is a type of dance music commonly played on the bagpipe,often in combination with a slower dance called a strathspey.

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Music's meaning is similar for different individuals.

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The Scottish Highland bagpipe produces sound because air from the bag is forced through the ________ of the chanter and drone pipes,making them vibrate.

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The Irish union pipes,or uilleann pipes,are often used for outdoor performance because of their loud sound.

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