Music questions and instruments

based on final study guide

From what ethnic group do the Irish descend?

kelps

What is the name of the Irish language?

Gaeilge

In which century were the Irish Christianized?

5th century

Know the 5 types of music that make up Irish traditional music.

Sean nos, airs, songs in English, Irish harp music, instrumental dance tunes and medleys

What are the two types of Irish songs in English that stem from their troubled history?

immigration songs and rebel songs

What is the term that the Irish call a gathering for music and dancing? A group of “set” dancers may also be present.

Ceili

What is the Irish term for usually solo unaccompanied or “old way” singing?

sea nos singing

What is the term used when Irish musicians informally gather in a pub to play various dance types?

session

Which Irish traditional dance tunes are played in compound meter (e.g., 6/8 or 9/8)?

jigs

Which Irish dance tunes are in quadruple meter (e.g., 4/4) and consist of a constant stream of 8th notes,

usually played at a fast tempo.

reel

In what musical form are Irish dances?

binary form

What are some of the Irish ornaments added to melodies?

cut, tab, roll, slide

What was the term given to Irish music, starting in the 1960s folk music movement that brought in new

instruments such as the bouzouki, guitar, and recovered the ancient bodhran drum?

neo traditional

What is the term given to Irish music that melds traditional styles with modern popular music and folk?

post traditional

What is the name of the syncretic religious drumming in Cuba that is reminiscent of West African

drumming?

bata drumming

What is the music and dance style created by the mixing of Cuban rumba drumming with French-Haitian

contradance style. It features the flute and violins along with rumba drums.

danson

What did Enrique Jorrin create in the early 1950s by consciously simplifying the complex polyrhythm of

Cuban music so that North Americans could dance to it?

cha cha

What was the name of the new style of music was created by the combination of Afro-Caribbean

drumming and North American jazz in the 1950s?

mambo

Who was the Puerto Rican percussionist who became a most famous bandleader with the song “Oye

Como Va”

Tito Puente

What genre of music was created in the 1970s to combine popular song with Latin jazz?

Salsa

What 4 European countries influenced the music and culture of Trinidad and Tobago prior to the arrival

of the US Navy?

spain, France, England, and Portugal

What is the name of the musical genre that emerged from the music of female cariso singers?

palipso

What is the Sachs-Hornbostel classification for the steel drum?

Idiophone

How were steel drums invented?

oil drums

What is the nautical name of the rhythm section (bass, drumset) that usually plays in a steel drum band?

The engine room.

What is the name of the earliest genre of Jamaican popular music that spawned all the others?

mento

What American genre of popular music influenced the creation of ska music in Jamaica?

RnB

From what previous genre did reggae emerge?

rock steady

What religious practice is connected with reggae music?

Rastafarianism, which emphasizes spiritual beliefs and connection to African heritage.

In what city did samba music develop in the 20th century?

rio de janerio

What festival is samba most associated?

carniva

Which samba instrument is related to the African gankogui?

The agogô, a bell made from metal that produces a unique sound.

What is the name of the only chordophone in the samba band?

Cavaguinho

What American music influenced the development of bossa nova?

jazz

What is the oldest genre of Afro-Colombian music that developed in the northern coastal area?

Cuarlao

What is the first popular genre of music in Colombia that introduces European instruments?

vallenato

What is the name given to both the predominant language and the people that are the direct descendants

of the Inca Empire living in the Altiplano region of South America

Quechua

What is the name of the type of song sung in the Altiplano region of South America, named after a

Christian saint’s day, that features two phrases sung in contrasting key areas (major and minor)?

san juan

What term describes a particular rhythm throughout Latin America that combines a compound measure

like 6/8 followed by a 3/2 measure?

selquialtara

What is the Peruvian dance-song that can feature a wide range of subjects and often has a melody that

starts at a high pitch and descends and is in duple meter?

hyano

What is the term used to designate a culture that has mixed native traditions with those of the Spanish?

Mestizo culture

What is a musical genre that exhibits the mix of Spanish, African, and Native Inca cultures in Mexico?

son

What important historical event corresponded with changes in Mexican popular music styles?

The Mexican Revolution

In what part of Mexico did the Son Jarocho originate?

Veracruz

What Son Jarocho song became famous as an early Rock & Roll song recorded by Ritchie Valens?

La Bamba

Where did Mariachi originate? Why did it change from its original style?

Jalisco

What is the name of the Mariachi band that formed in 1898 and continues to perform today?

Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan

In Mariachi, what is the term for the sudden exclamation?

grito

What is the Mexican folk genre that shares topics with American Country Music?

rancheras

What is the Spanish-language popular music that was developed by combining German immigrant dances

like the polka with Mexican Corridos?

norteno

What is the more modern genre of popular music in Mexico and Texas that mixes modern pop styles with

older Mexican popular music?

tejano

When did the first pow wows begin in the U.S.?

1920s

What is the term used for singing syllables that don’t have specific linguistic meaning?

vocables

What is the general melodic contour of songs composed for the drum at pow wow?

descending

What is the main purpose of music at a pow wow?

dancing

Who is credited with popularizing the Native American flute in the 1960s?

carlos nacai

What is the Sachs-Hornbostel designation for the Native American flute?

arephone

What is the name of the traditional Hawaiian string instrument that resembles a guitar?

ukelele.

What is the name of the traditional Swedish practice that is used to call cattle home?

kulning

The _____ style of Ukrainian folk singing is similar to controlled yelling or shouting?

white voice

____ is the genre of music that originated in the rural areas of central Brazil that shares

characteristics of Mexican ranchero and American country music?

sertanejo

bongos/steel drums/agogobell

caribbean

Irish traditional

ireland, tin whistle

sean nos singing

ireland, bodhran

cha-cha

cuba, timbales

calypso

trinidad, steel drums

reggaue

jamaica, bongos

samba

brazil, surdo

bossa nova

brazil, agogo

cumbia

colombia, congas

jarana

mexican