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Music: An Appreciation: An Appreciation, Brief 4/e
Roger Kamien, Hebrew University
Nonwestern Music
Music in Nonwestern Cultures

Multiple Choice Quiz

Please answer all questions



1

Nonwestern music is most often transmitted
A)orally from parent to child or teacher to student
B)through the imitation of radio broadcasts
C)through music notation
D)all of the above
2

Nonwestern musical scales often contain ________ tones.
A)five
B)six
C)seven
D)all of the above
3

A nasal, intense, and strained tone is cultivated by singers from
A)Peru
B)Siberia
C)the middle east and north Africa
D)sub-Saharan Africa
4

Which of the following statements is not true?
A)Music of the nonwestern world is too varied to allow easy generalizations.
B)Nonwestern traditions have inspired much twentieth-century western music.
C)Improvisation is nonexistent in nonwestern music.
D)Some composers in the nonwestern world combine traditional elements with western forms








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