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10/11 10. Contemporary, Popular, and Global Musical Cultures Online Quiz Questions

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Which description best defines electronic music?

A
It must be performed entirely by an acoustic orchestra.
B
It uses electronic technology to create, transform, record, or reproduce sound.
C
It always depends on improvisation by a solo performer.
D
It can use only sounds recorded from the natural environment.

True or false

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True or false: Indeterminate music allows some aspect of a performance to remain open, so different performances may produce different musical results.

A
True
B
False

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Which two techniques are characteristic of minimalist music? Select all correct choices.

A
Repetition and steady pulse
B
Rapidly changing chord progressions as the central organizing principle
C
Gradual transformation
D
Frequent dramatic contrast as the defining feature

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What term describes a musical attitude that may combine historical quotations, popular rhythms, classical forms, and newer sounds across cultural boundaries?

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In film music, a recurring musical idea associated with a character, place, object, or concept is a , while music that appears to come from within the film’s world is .

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What most accurately characterizes modal jazz?

A
A style that avoids improvisation and uses only written parts
B
A style based primarily on electronic synthesizers and studio effects
C
A style that uses scales or modes as extended harmonic fields
D
A style defined by a continuous dance beat and disco production

True or false

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True or false: After 1945, recording technology could make a recording a constructed musical object rather than merely a document of a live performance.

A
True
B
False

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Which three features are associated in the material with West African and African diasporic musical traditions? Select all correct choices.

A
Call-and-response
B
Polyrhythm
C
A fixed symphonic score as the central organizing principle
D
Participatory performance

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What minimalist process occurs when repeating patterns gradually move out of alignment, producing changing rhythmic relationships?

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Which statement correctly distinguishes musique concrète from the early approach of Elektronische Musik?

A
Musique concrète initially used only sine waves generated electronically.
B
Musique concrète began with recorded sounds that were manipulated and reorganized.
C
Elektronische Musik was defined by recordings of trains and voices.
D
The two approaches were identical from their beginnings and never differed in sound material.

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When analyzing a contemporary or popular work, identify whether shapes the organization, and consider the cultural that gives the music meaning.

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A composer records trains and voices, then edits, reverses, filters, and rearranges those recordings into a composition. Which postwar approach does this example most directly represent?

A
Musique concrète
B
Elektronische Musik
C
Indeterminacy
D
Postmodernism

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Which performance situation best demonstrates indeterminacy?

A
The performer follows every pitch, duration, and dynamic exactly as notated.
B
The audience selects the venue but not any musical element.
C
The performer chooses the order of several notated sections during the performance.
D
The composer uses only traditional instruments instead of electronic ones.

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A piece repeats two similar rhythmic patterns, but one gradually slips out of alignment with the other and produces new accents. Which minimalist process is being used?

A
Phase shifting
B
Additive process
C
Chance operations
D
Drone

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In a film scene, a song plays from a radio shown on screen, and the characters react to it. What kind of film music is this?

A
A suspense cue heard only by the audience while a character walks through a silent room.
B
A recurring theme associated with a character but absent from the scene’s physical environment.
C
A score that changes tempo to match the editing of a chase sequence.
D
A song playing from a radio that is visible and audible within the scene.

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Which listening approach best reflects the material’s guidance for studying global musical traditions?

A
Treat all non-Western traditions as examples of one broad global style.
B
Ask how the tradition’s social function, performance practice, and cultural history shape the music.
C
Evaluate each tradition only by how closely it resembles Western concert music.
D
Focus on exotic timbres while ignoring the community or setting in which the music is performed.

True or false

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True or false: After 1945, popular-music recording technology could make a recording a constructed musical object rather than merely a document of a live performance.

A
True
B
False

Written response

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What term names a recurring musical idea associated with a character, place, object, or concept in a film?

Written response

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What jazz style uses scales or modes as extended harmonic fields instead of rapidly changing chord progressions?

Open ended

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A group improvises extended jazz solos over a loud, repeated funk groove, using electric keyboards, amplified guitar, and electronic effects. What post-1945 jazz style is the best-supported classification, and what evidence supports your answer? Also explain one reason why the description alone would not justify a more specific classification such as modal jazz or free jazz.