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In kabuki theater,music is used:


A) to accompany every scene.
B) only between acts.
C) only during dances.
D) only during dialogue.
E) only before the drama begins.

F) A) and E)
G) B) and E)

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Match each item to the correct description below. -A nostalgic popular song genre closely associated with karaoke


A) pizzicato
B) kabuki
C) no rae pang
D) enka
E) col legno

F) B) and E)
G) All of the above

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Karaoke tends to be performed for similar purposes regardless of where it is performed and who is performing it.

A) True
B) False

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China's Cultural Revolution affected Chinese music between 1966 and 1976 by:


A) developing an entirely new set of musical genres.
B) encouraging greater influence of Western musical styles.
C) limiting the range of genres that were performed and composed.
D) broadening the range of genres that were performed and composed.
E) promoting the performance of many traditional Chinese musical genres.

F) D) and E)
G) A) and D)

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The section of the Roman Catholic Mass that offers praise to God is called the ________.

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If you sang the Happy Birthday melody backwards,from the end to the beginning,you would be singing the melody's ________.

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Identities are complex but often static.

A) True
B) False

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The cries of the taiko drummer in the kata shigiri mark the time.

A) True
B) False

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Creole music is called ________ in reference to the title of the song The Beans Are Not Salty.

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Match each item to the correct description below. -A form of drama that began in seventeenth-century Japan


A) pizzicato
B) kabuki
C) no rae pang
D) enka
E) col legno

F) A) and D)
G) All of the above

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Lei Liang's Gobi Gloria synthesizes elements of Mongolian music and Western music.

A) True
B) False

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The purpose of the kata shigiri passage is to:


A) accompany dances in kabuki.
B) mark the change of karaoke singers.
C) signal the beginning or end of a famous kabuki dance or composition.
D) mark the beginning of an improvisation in a karaoke performance.
E) encourage the audience to respond during a karaoke performance.

F) C) and E)
G) A) and B)

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________ were a heterogeneous group of people of mixed French,Spanish,and African descent who began arriving in New Orleans in the early 1600s.

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Gobi Gloria largely uses which of these textures?


A) Monophonic
B) Polyphonic
C) Homophonic
D) Heterophonic
E) Biphonic

F) A) and C)
G) C) and E)

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Many Japanese arts,including the tea ceremony,kabuki theater,flower arranging,and karaoke,are based on the traditional Japanese value of ________,meaning "patterned form."

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In kabuki theater,the vocal expression,movement,costuming,and scenic effects are guided by the principle of:


A) kata.
B) kara.
C) kakegoe.
D) hayashi.
E) debayashi.

F) C) and D)
G) A) and D)

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Karaoke performances in Japan are shaped by the traditional Japanese value of kata,which:


A) encourages creativity.
B) also pervades other Japanese art forms,such as the tea ceremony.
C) stresses originality of content.
D) is based on the development of new forms and patterns.
E) All of the above

F) B) and D)
G) C) and D)

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As heard in the zydeco song The Beans Are Not Salty,which instrument is most responsible for the distinctive sound of Creole music?


A) The rub board
B) The guitar
C) The fiddle
D) The drums
E) The accordion

F) C) and D)
G) All of the above

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The chapter states that "Lei Liang's music tells us a great deal about how he perceives himself,but also about how he conceives of himself in relation to others,even others with whom he shares historical,national,and creative connections." Support this assertion by discussing Gobi Gloria and other aspects of Liang's approach to musical composition.

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Code noir was a social system in eighteenth-century Louisiana that provided free blacks with legal rights but lower social status than whites.

A) True
B) False

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