This document is a test in Music for a high school student. It contains 25 multiple choice identification questions about various aspects of traditional music from Japan, China, and Korea. The questions cover musical instruments, time signatures, translations of song titles, playing styles, and other musical terminology related to the traditional music of those three countries in Asia.
This document is a test in Music for a high school student. It contains 25 multiple choice identification questions about various aspects of traditional music from Japan, China, and Korea. The questions cover musical instruments, time signatures, translations of song titles, playing styles, and other musical terminology related to the traditional music of those three countries in Asia.
This document is a test in Music for a high school student. It contains 25 multiple choice identification questions about various aspects of traditional music from Japan, China, and Korea. The questions cover musical instruments, time signatures, translations of song titles, playing styles, and other musical terminology related to the traditional music of those three countries in Asia.
This document is a test in Music for a high school student. It contains 25 multiple choice identification questions about various aspects of traditional music from Japan, China, and Korea. The questions cover musical instruments, time signatures, translations of song titles, playing styles, and other musical terminology related to the traditional music of those three countries in Asia.
LONG TEST in MUSIC 8 2ND Quarter SCORE Name: ______________________________________________ Date: _________________________ Grade and Section: ____________________________________ Teacher: _______________________
I. IDENTIFICATION: Identify the following sentences. Write the correct answer.
__________________________1. Its music has been described as basically meditative in character. __________________________2. They believed that sound influences the harmony of the universe. __________________________3. Its music has a generous use of bright rhythms and melodies, offers a more energetic and capricious contrast to the nation’s collection of classical music works. __________________________4. It is the famous traditional music of Japan. __________________________5. It is the famous traditional music of China. __________________________6. It is the famous traditional music of Korea. __________________________7. It is the time signature of Arirang. __________________________8. It is the time signature of Mo Li Hua. __________________________9. It is the time signature of Sakura. __________________________10. It is the English translation of Sakura. __________________________11. It is the English translation of Arirang. __________________________12. It is the English translation of Mo Li Hua. __________________________13. It is a Japanese instrument which is literally called the “Dragon Flute”. __________________________14. It is the style of playing the Kayagum, Pipa, and Shamisen. __________________________15. It is the style of playing or making a sound in “Hichiriki”. __________________________16. It is the way of making a pitch tone in playing Koto instrument. __________________________17. It is a Korean music category traditionally associated with the lower class. __________________________18. It is an hourglass shaped double headed drum made from animal skin. __________________________19. It is a two-stringed fiddle and one of the most popular Chinese instruments. __________________________20. It is the meter used in the Japanese song “Sakura”. __________________________21. It is the classification of the Korean song “Arirang”. (ex. Love song, Parting song, Song for Spring, Welcome song) __________________________22. It is the Japanese instrument which is the counterpart of Korea’s Kayagum. __________________________23. It is a Japanese free reed musical instrument that was introduced from China during the Nara period. __________________________24. It is literally called “cloud gongs” or cloud of gongs”. It is a set of ten small, tuned gongs mounted in a wooden frame. __________________________25. It is a traditional Korean zither-like string instrument, with 12 strings. It is probably the best-known Korean musical instrument.